Description |
Minimal pairs: left-handed person, fish spear; farm, milk; it's good, it's very good; it's big, it's very big. Singular/plural nouns: [monosyllabic] tree, bird, cow, road, rope; [bisyllabic] fly, fence, trap, crocodile, squirrel, name, ratel, fire, road, scorpion, elephant, twin; [trisyllabic] fox, grasshopper, fish, mongoose, crocodile; [quadrasyllabic] lion.F, lion.M. Minimal pair: elephant, run.3SG.F. The ELAN transcription is made by Keira Mullan, the collector of collection KCP3, which has a focus on nominal person, number, and gender in Kufo. |
Cite as |
Shubo Li (collector), Rosey Billington (interviewer), Haroun Kafi (speaker), Keira Mullan (interviewer), Shubo Li (interviewer, researcher), 2022. Tone patterns in singular/plural noun contrasts. EAF+XML/MPEG/MP4/MXF/VND.WAV. KCP2-20220217_Tones1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/9PT1-Q245 |