Development of Hausa dataset a baseline for speech recognition. [PDF]
Ibrahim UA, Boukar MM, Suleiman MA.
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Number in South-Bauchi-West Languages [PDF]
Paper presented at the workshop "Number in Africa and Beyond: Grammar, Semantics and Social Deixis 27.-30. September 2011, Institute for African Studies, University of CologneSouth-Bauchi West Chadic (SBW) languages, spoken in northern Nigeria, do not ...
Caron, Bernard
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Terms related to the family in Ugaritic [PDF]
Ugaritic words for the clan and the family home, members of the family, infants and children, marriage and childbirth, domestics and inheritance are listed, together with their cognates in other Semitic languages and their equivalents in Afro-Asiatic ...
Watson, Wilfred G. E.
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Perfectivity and time reference in Hausa
The relative marking in Hausa marks discourse presupposition in perfective and imperfective relative clauses and out-of-focus clauses of focus and fronted wh-questions.
Mahamane L. Abdoulaye
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Review of "Ɓarawa lexicon: a wordlist of eight South Bauchi (West Chadic) languages: Boghom, Buli, Dott, Geji, Sayanci and Zul" by Ronald Cosper, Munich: LINCOM EUROPA, 1999 [PDF]
Review of a wordlist of 8 south-Bauchi Chadic languages spoken in northern NigeriaRecension d'un liste de mots de 8 langues tchadiques Sud-Bauchi parlées au nord du ...
Caron, Bernard
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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]
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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Reviews of: Helena Dubnov, A Grammatical Sketch of Somali, "Grammatical Analyses of African Languages", 20, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2003,104 pp.
Aleksandra Iwańczyk +4 more
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges. [PDF]
Cristia A +5 more
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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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