DOWNSTEP IN SUPYIRE

Downstep in Supyire

Downstep in the vast majority of cases can be traced to the influence of a low tone [Hyman 1979].This paper discusses the case of Supyire, a three tone language with Socks downstep unrelated to low tone.Sequences of high tones are automatically downstepped.Confusion with mid tone is in most cases avoided by a rule which raises mid to high tone; the

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The Role of Heavy Minerals in Understanding the Provenance of Sandstone: An Example from the Upper Cretaceous Tanjero Formation, Surdash Region, Northeastern Iraq

The Tanjero Formation is the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) crops out in northeastern Iraq at the High-Folded and Imbricate Zones.To study heavy minerals, twenty sandstone samples were obtained from selected Socks sites of the Tanjero Formation exposed at the southwestern limb of the Surdash anticline in the northeast part of Sulaimanyi

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The Politics of Pilgrimage Through the Prism of Mass Media

Pilgrimage involves the movement of people either as individuals or as groups in search of what can be described as the sacred.Since pilgrimage is an integral part of Indian culture and has significant participation, pilgrimage sites and centres are being used by political and corporate organisations to communicate specific messages.The political r

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