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The Prosodic System of Southern Bobo Madare [PDF]
, 2020 This dissertation describes the word-level and phrase-level prosodic system of Southern Bobo Madare (Bobo), a Mande language of Burkina Faso. I examine tonal aspects of Bobo’s prosodic system and provide an extensive phonetic description of the use of ...
Sherwood, Kate
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Combining documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics to advance corpus-based typology [PDF]
, 2021 This article argues that documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics can form a happy marriage in that corpora extracted from language documentation collections contain highly relevant data that can advance corpus phonetics by enabling broad comparative
Seifart, Frank
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Studying Tonal Complexity, with a special reference to Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Linguists tend to believe that total complexity of human languages is invariable. In order to test this hypothesis empirically, we need to calculate the complexity in different domains of language structure: phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.
Konoshenko, Maria
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Marques rétrospectives en kla-dan [PDF]
, 2019 Il existe en kla-dan deux marques rétrospectives, kɯ̰̀ et kà, qui servent à décaler au passé les situations dont la localisaton sur l’axe de temps est déjà déterminée.
Makeeva, Nadezda
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Ajami script for the Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Arabic-based (Ajami) writing has been used for Mande languages, most probably, since the times of the Ancient Mali (13-16 centuries). It is still in use among Mandinka in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau, among Susu and Mogofin in Guinea, and to a ...
Vydrin, Valentin
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, 2023 In this paper, we introduce a massively multilingual speech corpora with fine-grained phonemic transcriptions, encompassing more than 115 languages from diverse language families.
Islam, Jahurul +3 more
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Comparing causal-noncausal alternation in three West-African families in contact: Atlantic, Mel and Mande [PDF]
, 2019 Submitted to Language Dynamics and Change, special issue on Valence orientation in contact: a cross-linguistic perspective. Proceedings of the Workshop on Valence orientation in contact at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
Robert, Stéphane, Voisin, Sylvie
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Interacting tonal processes in Susu [PDF]
, 2017 Susu, like a number of other Mande languages, displays tonal melody neutralization in some nominal constructions. This paper illustrates that in addition to the lexical tonal melody of input elements playing a key role in the outcomes of neutralization ...
Anderson, Jonathan C. +2 more
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Building and curating conversational corpora for diversity-aware language science and technology [PDF]
, 2022 We present an analysis pipeline and best practice guidelines for building and curating corpora of everyday conversation in diverse languages. Surveying language documentation corpora and other resources that cover 67 languages and varieties from 28 phyla,
Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A.
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Le TAM en maninka de Guinée : la zone du futur [PDF]
Le maninka de Guinée possède trois constructions verbales dont les valeurs de base appartiennent à la zone du futur-prospectif : le futur-1 (avec la marque prédicative dí), le futur-2 (avec la marque prédicative dínà) et le prospectif (marqué par le ...
Vydrin, Valentin
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