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The monologue of the dove : reflections on life and death in an oral tradition of the Kwami People in northern Nigeria [PDF]
, 2006 The tale portrays the unhappy life of a dove. Constantly surrounded by enemies, hunted by human beings and animals, disappointed by friends and separated from her family, the dove despairs of her life.
Leger, Rudolf
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Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges. [PDF]
J Child Lang, 2023 Cristia A +5 more
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, 1981 We wordsters owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of indefatigable delvers in the mines of language who bring out the ore which we smelt to fashion our tools and toys. Let me illustrate this by singling out an important and fascinating book by C.
Partridge, Harry B.
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Depressor consonants in Geji [PDF]
, 2008 International audienceGeji, a language spoken in Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) belonging to the the West-B3 group of Chadic languages, has a tonal system based on a three-level distinction between Hi, Mid and Low, with Falling and Rising combinations ...
Caron, Bernard
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]
, 2010 This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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Le luri. Quelques notes sur une langue tchadique du Nigéria [PDF]
, 2004 Luri (a South-Bauchi Chadic language) spoken 15 km south of Bauchi, in Northern Nigeria, near Langas (9,83° East ; 10,17° North), in the original village of Luri (lúr).
Caron, Bernard
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(Un)markedness of trills : the case of Slavic r-palatalisation [PDF]
, 2010 This paper evaluates trills [r] and their palatalized counterparts [rj] from the point of view of markedness. It is argued that [r]s are unmarked sounds in comparison to [rj]s which follows from the examination of the following parameters: (a) frequency ...
Zygis, Marzena
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A propos de Kal et de Sigidi: Problèmes de dialectologie Zaar (tchadique Sud-Bauchi) [PDF]
, 2000 International audienceThis paper deals with the internal classification of the Saya cluster (Chadic West B, Southern Bauchi, Baaraawaa Sub-group South : Shimizu 78 :13). A new Zaar dialect is introduced : the Zaar of Marti, and the Kal dialect of Zaar is
Caron, Bernard
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Grammaticalization as gradual process in Hausa reduplication
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006 Hausa is a Chadic language of Afroasiatic family that extensively uses reduplication for grammatical and lexical formatives. Reduplication as a universal phenomenon is viewed in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives and it has been studied on a ...
Hafizu Miƙo Yakasai
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, 2004 We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under consideration. Firstly, it is standardly assumed that focus is generally marked by stress.
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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