OBSERVATIONS ON KUNAMA TONE, (Barka Dialect) a 2000 article by Bruce A. Connell and Richard J. Hayward
Kunama has been reported by different scholars as having two or three tones,
downstep (or not), contrastive length of both consonants and vowels, and
lexical stress. Despite this range of reported phenomena, little in-depth research
into the prosodic system of Kunama has been undertaken. The aim of the
present study is to report such a detailed investigation and to establish on a
solid footing basic aspects of the tonal system of Kunama. The work reported is
preliminary in the sense that its scope is limited: we present phonological and
phonetic evidence for the existence of three level tones, which can combine to
form a number of contour tones. This is followed by discussion of tonal phenomena
in the noun phrase. No evidence for lexical stress is found.
http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/elanguage/sal/article/download/1340/1340-2132-1-PB.pdf
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