"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB">ABBREVIATIONS AND TONE MARKING CONVENTION mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB"> The work adopted Welmer’s tone marking convention which states that only the first of the sequence of syllables on the same pitch level is marked leaving the subsequent ones unmarked until a contrasting pitch is reached and get marked. Secondly, two consecutive acute marks are to be interpreted as high followed by down step in the same word or across wo...