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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Larry M. Hyman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in phonology and has particular interest in African languages. Education and career He received his B.S., M.A, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. His 1972 Ph.D. dissertation, "A Phonological Study of Fe’fe’-Bamileke," was supervised by Victoria Fromkin.
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- A theory of phonological weight (1985) (616)
- Phonology: Theory and Analysis (1974) (482)
- How autosegmental is phonology? (2013) (426)
- Word-prosodic typology (2006) (297)
- DRAFTTo be submitted to Language Sciences How (not) to do Phonological Typology: The Case of Pitch-Accent (2009) (226)
- Identity Avoidance in Phonology and Morphology (1999) (203)
- Suffix ordering in Bantu: a morphocentric approach (2003) (193)
- Universals of tone rules: 30 years later (2007) (117)
- Auxiliary focus (1984) (113)
- Logophoric Reference in Gokana (1981) (112)
- On the Object Relation in Bantu (1982) (99)
- Syllables and morpheme integrity in Kinande reduplication (1990) (96)
- Universals in phonology (2008) (93)
- Prosodic domains in Kukuya (1987) (93)
- Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu (2008) (92)
- Privative Tone in Bantu (2000) (82)
- Tone: Is it Different? (2007) (80)
- Hierarchies of natural topic in Shona (1974) (79)
- Morphotactic Constraints in the Chichewa Verb Stem (1992) (78)
- Register Tones and Tonal Geometry (1993) (74)
- Nasal consonant harmony at a distance the case of Yaka (2010) (70)
- Focus in Aghem (2009) (69)
- The prosody-morphology interface: Prosodic Morphology and tone: the case of Chichewa (1999) (69)
- Directional Rule Application and Output Problems in Hakha Lai Tone (2004) (69)
- Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization (2008) (68)
- What is Phonological Typology (2014) (66)
- Does Gokana really have no syllables? Or: what's so great about being universal?* (2011) (65)
- Positional prominence and the ‘prosodic trough’ in Yaka (1998) (60)
- Tonal and Non-Tonal Intonation in Shekgalagari (2011) (60)
- Minimality and the prosodic morphology of Cibemba imbrication (1995) (60)
- Phrasal Construction Tonology: The case of Kalabari (2014) (59)
- A Reanalysis of Tonal Downstep (1979) (58)
- What is Reproducibility (2006) (57)
- Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone (1998) (57)
- Kuki-Thaadow: An African Tone System in Southeast Asia - eScholarship (2007) (57)
- A NEW APPROACH TO TONE IN LUGANDA (1993) (57)
- TONAL ACCENT IN SOMALI (2010) (56)
- Aghem Grammatical Structure (1980) (55)
- Underspecification and vowel height transfer in Esimbi (1988) (52)
- The Representation of Multiple Tone Heights (1986) (51)
- Is There a Right-to-Left Bias in Vowel Harmony? 1 (2002) (51)
- Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication (2008) (50)
- Luganda and the strict layer hypothesis (1987) (49)
- Conceptual issues in the comparative study of the Bantu verb stem (1993) (48)
- The Interaction between Focus and Tone in Bantu (1999) (47)
- Correspondence and identity constraints in two-level Optimality Theory (2000) (47)
- Language, Speech, and Mind: Studies in Honour of Victoria A. Fromkin (1988) (46)
- EXPLAINING FINAL OBSTRUENT VOICING IN LEZGIAN : PHONETICS AND HISTORY (2004) (45)
- The role of borrowing in the justification of phonological grammars (2010) (45)
- The Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo Reconstruction (2011) (45)
- Bantu historical linguistics : theoretical and empirical perspectives (1999) (44)
- Moraic mismatches in Bantu (1992) (44)
- On the non-universality of tonal association ‘conventions’: evidence from Ciyao (1994) (44)
- On the Representation of Tone in Peñoles Mixtec (2007) (43)
- Word domains and downstep in Bamileke-Dschang (1985) (43)
- Do All Languages Have Word Accent (2012) (42)
- Tone, Syntax, and Prosodic Domains in Luganda (2010) (42)
- Relative time reference in the Bamileke tense system (2010) (41)
- Deconstructing Markedness: A Predictability-Based Approach (2010) (40)
- Tonology of the Babanki Noun (2010) (40)
- Niger-Congo Verb Extensions: Overviewand Discussion (2007) (39)
- The feature [Grave] in phonological theory (1973) (39)
- "Abstract" Vowel Harmony in Kàl : A System-Driven Account (2002) (38)
- Linguistic Fieldwork: Fieldwork as a state of mind (2001) (38)
- Final vowel shortening in Luganda (1990) (38)
- Essentials of Gwari Grammar (1970) (37)
- HOW TO BECOME A ‘KWA’ VERB (2004) (36)
- On the Weightlessness of Syllable Onsets (1984) (34)
- How to Study a Tone Language, with Exemplification from Oku (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon). (2014) (33)
- Noni grammatical structure : with special reference to verb morphology (1981) (33)
- Do Tones Have Features (2010) (33)
- Animacy, objects and clitics in Sesotho (2010) (33)
- Sound change, misanalysis, and analogy in the Bantu causative (2003) (31)
- More on post-nasal devoicing: The case of Shekgalagari (2010) (30)
- EMERGENT TEMPLATES: THE UNUSUAL CASE OF TIENE (1997) (30)
- STRUCTURE PRESERVATION AND POSTLEXICAL TONOLOGY IN DAGBANI (1993) (27)
- The syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology. (1999) (27)
- Where's phonology in typology? (2007) (26)
- The morpheme in phonological change: velar palatalization in Bantu (1996) (26)
- Nasals and nasalization in Kwa (2010) (24)
- The natural history of verb-stem reduplication in Bantu (2009) (24)
- The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu (2016) (24)
- Form and substance in language universals (1983) (24)
- Focus Marking in Aghem: Syntax or Semantics? (2007) (23)
- The Augment in Luganda Tonology (1991) (21)
- Elicitation as Experimental Phonology: Thlantlang Lai Tonology (2006) (20)
- Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao (1997) (20)
- Noun classes in the grassfields bantu borderland (1980) (20)
- Tone Systems (2020) (19)
- In defense of prosodic typology: A response to Beckman and Venditti (2012) (18)
- Aghem grammatical structure : with special reference to noun classes, tense-aspect and focus marking (1979) (18)
- Globality in the Kinande tone system (1985) (17)
- African languages and phonological theory (2003) (17)
- In Defense of Prosodic Typology: A Response to Beckman & Venditti (2011) (17)
- Penultimate Lengthening in Bantu: Analysis and Spread (2009) (16)
- Morphological Tonal Assignments in Conflict: Who Wins? (2013) (15)
- Why Describe African Languages (2003) (15)
- Tone and Syllable Structure in Hakha-Lai (2002) (14)
- Initial Vowel and Prefix Tone in Kom : Related to the Bantu Augment ? (2005) (14)
- Reconstructing the Proto-Bantu Verbal Unit: Internal Evidence (2007) (13)
- Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems (2016) (13)
- Affixation by Place of Articulation: Rare AND Mysterious - eScholarship (2006) (13)
- Penultimate lengthening in Bantu (2013) (12)
- The accent of extended word structures in Tokyo standard Japanese (1984) (11)
- Downstep Deletion in Aghem (1987) (11)
- 2. What is the conjoint/disjoint alternation? Parameters of crosslinguistic variation (2016) (11)
- Leggbo Verb Inflection: A Semantic and Phonological Particle Analysis (2002) (11)
- Metatony in Abo (Bankon), A42 (2011) (10)
- Adjectives as Nominal Heads inBasaá (2013) (10)
- Affixation by place of articulation: the case of Tiene (2010) (10)
- Vowel harmony in Gunu (2001) (9)
- More reflections on the nasal classes in Bantu (2018) (9)
- What tone teaches us about language (2018) (9)
- How To Study a Tone Language (2014) (9)
- A Grammar of Nzadi [B865]: A Bantu language of Democratic Republic of Congo (2011) (9)
- Towards a Typology of Postlexical Tonal Neutralizations (2013) (8)
- Spurious high-tone extensions in Luganda (1990) (8)
- 2. Accessibility and demonstrative operators in Basaá relative clauses (2017) (8)
- Construction Tonology: The Case of Kalabari (2012) (8)
- Markedness, Faithfulness, and the Typology of Two-height Tone Systems (2011) (8)
- VIII – Historical Tonology1 (1978) (8)
- A tonal grammar of Kwanyama (2008) (8)
- Tonal melodies in the Lulamogi verb (2014) (8)
- The syntax of body parts in Haya (1996) (7)
- Information Structure in Bantu (2016) (7)
- Why underlying representations? (2018) (7)
- The Autosegmental Approach to Tone in Lusoga (2016) (7)
- Lexical vs. Grammatical Tone: Sorting out the Differences (2016) (7)
- Noun class levelling in Bamileke (2010) (6)
- Do All Languages Have Word Accent? Or: What's so great about being universal? (2010) (6)
- Phrase-level Prosodic Smothering in Makonde (2019) (6)
- Essentials of Gwari Grammar. Occasional Publication No. 27. (1971) (6)
- Niger-Congo Linguistic Features and Typology (2019) (5)
- Cyclicity and Suffix Doubling in the Bantu Verb Stem (1991) (5)
- Disentangling Conjoint, Disjoint, Metatony, Tone Cases, Augments, Prosody, and Focus in Bantu (2013) (5)
- 3. A Model of Haya Tonology (1984) (5)
- Transparent Low Tone in Tuki (1992) (5)
- Issues in the Phonology-Morphology Interface in African languages (2012) (5)
- The unabashed typologist: A Frans Plank Schubertiade (2017) (4)
- Positional Prominence vs. Word Accent: Is there a difference? (2015) (4)
- 11. Prosodic evidence for syntactic phrasing in Zulu (2016) (4)
- Cyclicity and Base Non-Identity 1 (2001) (4)
- Morphology, Irregularity, and Bantu Frication: The Case of Lulamogi (2015) (4)
- 15. Conjoint/disjoint distinction and focus in Matengo (N13) (2016) (4)
- Towards a Typology of Tone System Changes (2018) (4)
- Notes on the history of Southwestern Mande (2010) (4)
- 8. The conjoint/disjoint distinction in the tonal morphology of Tswana (2016) (4)
- Common Bantoid verb extensions (2018) (4)
- Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two? (2021) (4)
- Towards a Canonical Typology of Prosodic Systems (2012) (4)
- The Tonology of WH Questions in Luganda (2011) (4)
- Does Gokana really have syllables? A postscript* (2015) (4)
- 12. Prosody/syntax mismatches in the Zulu conjoint/disjoint alternation (2016) (4)
- Prefixal vowel length in Lulamogi: A stratal account (2017) (3)
- Word prosody II: Tone systems (2017) (3)
- On the Analysis of Tone in Mee (Ekari, Ekagi, Kapauku) (2013) (3)
- do Typology: The Case of Pitch-accent (2007) (3)
- The Representation of Tone (2009) (3)
- Non-etymological high tones in the Chichewa verb (1999) (3)
- Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm: What’s Cognate, Copied or Renewed? (2014) (3)
- Research mate in African linguistics : focus on Cameroon : a fieldworker's tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell (2001) (3)
- What (else) Depends on Phonology (2014) (3)
- The segmental and tonal structure of verb inflection in Babanki (2020) (3)
- Post-Verbal subject in the Nzadi relative clause (2012) (3)
- Markedness and the Phonological Typology of Two-Height Tone Systems (2010) (3)
- Roland Kießling: Verbal serialisation in Isu (West-Ring) – a Grassfields language of Cameroon (2016) (2)
- Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two? (2021) (2)
- 5. Current issues in African phonology (2018) (2)
- Prosodic asymmetries in nominal vs. verbal phrases in Bantu (2019) (2)
- ‘Studies in African Linguistics’ (1970) (2)
- 7 Tone : Is it Different ? (2011) (2)
- Issues in the Phonology-MorphologyInterface in African Languages (2013) (2)
- Multiple Exponence in the Lusoga Verb Stem (2016) (2)
- Complementarity and Opacity: [l] ~ [d] in Bantu (2012) (2)
- Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages (review) (2012) (2)
- A grammar of Nzadi (B.865) : a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2011) (2)
- 13 Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication (2009) (2)
- Synchronic vs. Diachronic Naturalness: Hyman & Schuh (1974) revisited (2017) (2)
- Coda Constraints on Tone (2012) (1)
- 7. Conjoint and disjoint verb forms in Gur? Evidence from Yom (2016) (1)
- Focus marking in Aghem (2010) (1)
- Nasals and Low Tone in Grassfields Noun Class Prefixes (2017) (1)
- Typology in American linguistics: An appraisal of the field (2007) (1)
- 6. The Kikuyu focus marker nĩ: Formal and functional similarities to the conjoint/disjoint alternation (2016) (1)
- In Search of Prosodic Domains in Lusoga (2016) (1)
- High tone bumping in Runyankore (2022) (1)
- Positional Prominence versus Word Accent (2018) (1)
- Do Tones Have Features? - eScholarship (2010) (1)
- On Reconstructing Tone in Proto-Niger-Congo (2016) (0)
- in Apinayé and Evidence for Closure Duration as a Phonotactic Variable (2008) (0)
- Issues in African Language Phonology (2008) (0)
- Chapter 11 What ( else ) depends on phonology ? (2017) (0)
- What tone teaches us about language: Supplemental Material (2018) (0)
- Tone Systems: Typology and Description -- Chapter 1 - eScholarship (2011) (0)
- What (Else) Depends on Phonology? - eScholarship (2014) (0)
- Reminiscences of the last 50 years and the way forward (2021) (0)
- Heidi James Rosendall (1992). A phonological study of the Gwari lects. (SIL Language Data Africa Series 24) . Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Pp. xi + 116. (1993) (0)
- Coda Constraints on Tone - eScholarship (2012) (0)
- Phonologist, Africanist, typologist: George N. (Nick) Clements (1940–2009) (2010) (0)
- Does Gokana REALLY Have Syllables? A Postscript to Hyman (2011) - eScholarship (2014) (0)
- Phonologist, Africanist, Typologist: George N. (Nick) Clements: (October 5, 1940 -- August 30, 2009) (2010) (0)
- Tone Systems: Typology and Description -- Chapter 1 (2011) (0)
- 5. Shangaji paired tenses: Emergence of a cj/dj system? (2016) (0)
- A note on Nuba Mountain verb extensions (2020) (0)
- Lusoga Noun Phrase Tonology (2017) (0)
- A grammar of Goemai, by Birgit Hellwig (2013) (0)
- Chapter 1 Language change for the worse (2021) (0)
- Although far from settled , recent handbook treatments acknowledge the changing views on the question of phonological representations (2015) (0)
- 9. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Símákonde (2016) (0)
- Causative and Passive High Tone in Bantu: Spurious or Proto? (2018) (0)
- Why Underlying Representations? - eScholarship (2015) (0)
- Underlying Representations and Bantu Segmental Phonology (2016) (0)
- Bantu Tone Overview (2017) (0)
- Word accentual patterns in the languages of the world (2013) (0)
- Nasal consonant harmony at a distance : The case ofYaka 7 2 (2010) (0)
- Two Cases of Adaptation Mismatches in Yoruba Loan Phonology (2012) (0)
- Selected Proceedings of the 43 rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics : Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages (2013) (0)
- Roger Lass (1984). Phonology : an introduction to basic concepts . (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xix + 362. (1985) (0)
- (Commissioned for special issue of The Linguistic Review, 2008, Harry van der Hulst, ed.) Universals in Phonology (2008) (0)
- Explorations in dependency phonology: John Anderson and Jacques Durand (eds.), Dordrecht: Foris. 1987. (1990) (0)
- Deverbal nominalization in Runyankore (2023) (0)
- Book Review (2005) (0)
- Initial Vowel Length in Lulamogi: Cyclicity or Globality? (2015) (0)
- LLA6 001-008 0 LLA6 premieres corr 2 (2020) (0)
- The first person singular subject negative portmanteau in Luganda and Lusoga (2021) (0)
- welcome Tone : Is it Different ? (2007) (0)
- Synchronic vs. Diachronic Naturalness: (2017) (0)
- Lenition , weakening and consonantal strength : tracing concepts through the history of phonology 1 (2008) (0)
- Tone in Runyankore Verb Stem Reduplication (2022) (0)
- Dahl’s law and g-deletion in Tiania: A dialect of Kimeeru (Bantu, Kenya) (2022) (0)
- Possessive Tone in Tswefap (Bamileke): Paradigmatic or Derivational? (2017) (0)
- Review of Kießling, Roland (2013) (0)
- Chapter 9 Multiple exponence in the Lusoga verb stem (2017) (0)
- The role of attachment height in explaining prosodic phrasing in Rutooro (2019) (0)
- Issues in the Representational Analysis of Syntagmatic Tone Systems (2013) (0)
- IV Prosodic systems : Niger-Congo and Adjacent Areas (2018) (0)
- Within the Kwa sub-branch of Niger-Congo a considerable number of (1972) (0)
- Title The natural history of verb-stem reduplication in Bantu Permalink (2009) (0)
- The Consequence of Rule Ordering in Haya Tonology (1989) (0)
- Diachronic Naturalness : Hyman & Schuh ( 1974 ) revisited (2017) (0)
- Patricia Carrell, A transformational grammar of Igbo. London: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. vii + 123. (1974) (0)
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