Abstract
Delafosse (1900:15-18) remarked more than one hundred twenty years ago that Anyi was not a full-fledged tone language like Yoruba, nor was it an accent language like English or French. Quaireau (1978:217-8) came to the same conclusion regarding the suprasegmental status of Anyi. I concur with them that Anyi is hard to classify suprasegmentally because it straddles the three prosodic types into which world languages are currently classified, namely: tone languages, pitch-accent languages, and accent languages. Six parameters are used to shed some light on why Anyi defies prosodic typologies.
Recommended Citation
Koffi, Ettien
(2022)
"THE CHINKS IN THE PROSODIC CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES: WHAT KIND OF A TONE LANGUAGE IS ANYI?,"
Linguistic Portfolios: Vol. 11, Article 5.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol11/iss1/5
