Browsing by Author "Ismail, Joseph Hokororo"

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    Aspects of makua phonology: the case of meto variety
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2000) Ismail, Joseph Hokororo
    This dissertation describes some phonological aspects of Makua from a primarily descriptive point of view taking Meto variety as the case study. The study has five chapters. Chapter one introduces the problem area. It classifies Meto among the varieties (dialects) of Makua as a Bantu language. It also provides statement of the problem, the objectives, hypotheses, significance of the study, and scope and limitations. Furthermore, it gives the literature review, the theoretical framework adopted, the methodology and procedures used in conducting the study. Chapter two describes the sounds of Meto. An inventory of Meto sounds, including consonants and vowels, has been established. The morpheme structure conditions and the structure of syllables have been critically analyzed. Chapter three concerns itself with describing various phonological processes, which affect vowels; whereas those affecting consonants are described in chapter four. The study reveals that these processes are natural and take place in order to accommodate the phonetic and morpheme structure conditions of the language. Finally a summary of findings, rules and conclusion is given in chapter five.
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    A topological study of Meetto -Makua of Southern Tanzania.
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2011) Ismail, Joseph Hokororo
    This thesis is Topological study of Meetto-Makua of Southern Tanzania. It investigates tone behaviour in infinitive-, finite verbs, nouns and adjectives using Auto segmental phonology as its theoretical framework. Data were collected through interviews with the native speakers of Meetto-Makua using direct elicitation technique, The interviews were conducted in Kiswahili; with translation gmc tally from Kiswahili equals into Meetto-Makua. Our approach was, therefore, that each interviewee pronounces a word in the word or sentence list in order to ensure reliability. There are several tonological rules that are active in the language. The rules are stem accent assignment, stem accent copying, accent-BTM association, accent deletion, ultimate stem accent back hopping, high spread and final spread. The stem accent assignment rule is the one that assigns an accent to the first syllable of the stem. Once the accent is assigned to the stem, it is subject to different tonological rules, depending on whether the grammatical category involved h" OP or not -id for nouns and adjectives the number of syllables in the structure. When the accent is assigned to the first syllable of the stem, the H lone spreads three or more syllables to the right pushing the Low to ultimate syllable. The study, therefore, investigates the behaviour of tone at grammatical and lexical levels and documenting the behaviour of Meetto-Maker tone, while providing fundamental linguistic description of Meetto-Makua language and contributing generally to the study of Bantu tonology and phonology.