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Example 17-213

sista vs. sìsta

sista

sister

vs.

vs.

sìsta

nurse

sister vs. nurse

Type:: naturalistic spoken
Source:: Faraclas 1996: 270-275

Language:

Nigerian Pidgin by Nicholas Faraclas

Datapoints:

Tone: Simple tone system, for lexical and grammatical distinctions

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