Musey
mse (muse1242)
Afro-Asiatic (afro1255) > Marba-Musey-Ham (marb1244)
Africa
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2. Prosodic units
3. Tonal inventory
3.2 Inventory of tonemes
High
[ H ]
toneme

Criteria:

  • The Floating Criterion
  • The Tonal Morpheme Criterion

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Low
[ L ]
toneme

Criteria:

  • The Tonal Morpheme Criterion
  • The Activity Criterion

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4. Tonotactics
4.3. Toneless syllables
5. Stress and tone
6. Tonal Rules
L tone spreading
tonal spread

L tone spreads from left to right from a root onto toneless bound morphemes within the limits of a morphosyntactic words, e.g. bàraw 'cotton' + mùl 'chief' + =na MASC + =ra FEM → bàraw mùlnara [bàràw mūlnàrà].

H tone attachement
other

A number of morphemes in Musey have a floating H tone as part of their lexical or grammatical tonal melody. When such a morpheme is followed by a toneless bound morpheme within the same morphosyntactic word, the floating H docks to it, e.g. Lòʰ 'God' + =na MASC → Lòná.

Floating H tone deletion
other

Floating H is deleted in two cases: (i) when the following segment within the same morphosyntactic word is toned and (ii) before the right edge of a morphosyntactic word.

7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones
7.1. Grammatical tonal morphemes
7.3. Lexical tones
Miscellaneous
10. Tonal notation in the writing
Analytical report (fulltext)