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Phonetics of Tone (African Languages)
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"Most of the languages of Africa are tone languages, and the distribution of tones in these languages is often integrated into the morphology and syntax. Descriptions of tone in African languages have been influential in the development of linguistic approaches to tone and in particular autosegmental..." – By Scott Myers
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Intervention Effects in Mandarin Chinese
"Intervention effects (IEs) refer to the phenomenon where an interrogative wh-expression cannot follow a quantifier or a focus expression. IEs are commonly found in wh-in-situ languages because it is more likely for in-situ wh-expressions to follow..." – By Haoze Li
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