tonal spread

6.1.3. High tone spread (HTS) Within a tonal phrase, if the initial word ends on a H-toned syllable, and the subsequent word begins with a L-toned syllable, the H tone spreads over the word boundary, and the L toneme of the second word shrinks or is delinked.

tonal spread

Verbal root tone spreads on the toneless derivative suffixes.

tonal spread

L tone of the immediate past and hodiernal past tense markers is spread to the initial syllable of a H-toned verb root. If the verb is monosyllabic, its H toneme is shifted on the subsequent direct object noun.

other

A derived HL contour tone on a single syllable simplifies to M.

This rule is applied after:

• High tone spread

other

The L tone of the final syllable in disyllabic prefixed nouns is raised to M if followed by a H tone, provided that the noun root-initial consonant is not prenasalized.

tonal spread

When in the initial position in the associative construction, H-toned monosyllabic nouns belonging to classes 1 and 9 and ending in a vowel or -ŋ lose their lexical tone which is replaced by the L tone spreading leftwards from the associative marker ə̀.