"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB">ABBREVIATIONS AND TONE MARKING CONVENTION mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB"> The work adopted Welmer’s tone marking convention which states that only the first of the sequence of syllables on the same pitch level is marked leaving the subsequent ones unmarked until a contrasting pitch is reached and get marked. Secondly, two consecutive acute marks are to be interpreted as high followed by down step in the same word or across wo...
INTRODUCTION 1.1General Introduction This study discusses the phonology of Bànsárà language, a language spoken in Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross-River state, Nigeria. Phonology is that branch of linguistics that studies the organization of speech sounds in human language. It is the component of grammar that accounts for the general pattern or structure of sounds, and the way sounds relate to one another in normal speech. In human language, sounds (consonants, vowels and suprasegm...
Preamble In traditional grammar, words are the basic units of analysis. Grammarians classify words according to parts of speech and identify and list the forms that words can be grouped. Although the matter is really very complex, for the sake of simplicity we will begin with the assumption that we are all generally able to distinguish words from other linguistic units. A morpheme is the smallest part of a word that has grammatical function or meaning. For example, sawed, sawn, sawing, and sa...