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Tone Switches in African Languages
In African languages, it seems to me various kinds of grammatical things can be marked by tone switches. In no bean, there are several kinds of plural marking. There's one kind of plural preferred with disalabic words that have either a high low or a low high tone pattern. And typically, historically, and we're going to get to that in a minute, that represents the loss of something.