Tonétique et tonologie d'un groupe de langues mandé : étude théorique et expérimentale
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Abstract EN:
This doctoral dissertation is concerned with a group of languages belonging to the southern-eastern division of the mande family. Taking several languages into account leads to a much more comprehensive view of the interactions between the vocalic, consonantal, syllabic and tonetic systems than would be possible with a single language. A first section is devoted to the descriptive and distributional features of these systems, as well as to a survey of classification problems, including alexico-statistical analysis. The second section opens with a detailled acoutic analysis of the tonetic systems, leading to a description of tonal rules at the sentence level. A companion volume contains a comprehensive selection of the survey materials (wsord and sentence lists, transcripts and translations of dialogues and tales), as well as a large sample of documented fundamental frequency curves.
Abstract FR:
L'etude d'un groupe de langues, appartenant a la southern-eastern division des langues mande, permet de traiter de facon plus generale qu'a l'aide d'une seule langue des problemes de phonologie (structure des systemes consonantiques, vocaliques et syllabiques etroitement imbriques) ou de tonologie. La premiere partie du travail traite l'aspect descriptif et destributionnel de ces divers elements, avec en plus une approche des problemes de classification et de lexico-statistique. La seconde partie traite l'aspect acoustique et permet d'entamer l'etude du fonctionnement des unites tonales dans la phrase. Un volume d'annexes ( questionnaires d'enquetes, phrases, dialogues, contes et une selection de documents oscillographiques ) constitue le materiel d'accompagnement ( 258 pages ).