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A systematic review of mands for information

Behavioral Interventions, 2022
AbstractThe purpose of this paper was to conduct a systematic review of studies on mands for information. We used a combination of keywords to search for articles through PsycINFO® and then conducted reference and citation searches for all articles that met our inclusion criteria. In total, we identified 32 studies with 35 experiments.
Mirela Cengher   +3 more
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Mande Languages

2018
Mande is a mid-range language family in Western Sub-Saharan Africa that includes 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people. According to the glottochronological data, its genetic depth is between 5,000 and 5,500 years. The Proto-Mande homeland can be presumably localized in the western part of the southern Sahara.
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Mande-Atlantic Contacts

2019
The Atlantic family includes 40 to 50 languages spoken in the coastal countries of West Africa, from southern Mauritania to Liberia; the Fula language of the Fulbe people is dispersed over Sahelian Africa up to Sudan and Eritrea. The Proto-Mande (second half of the 3rd millennium bc) homeland can be hypothetically localized in the Southern Sahara ...
Valentin Vydrin   +2 more
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The Mande Creation Myth

Africa, 1957
Opening ParagraphIn the course of the investigations carried out by the Missions Griaule in French West Africa during several decades, our attention has been drawn to the fact that numerous populations in the French Sudan and Upper Volta claimed to be descended from a common stock located in Mande.
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Sudanese Architecture and the Manding

African Arts, 1970
Various types of West African mud building styles and methods (wet mud and brick) are described and traced historically. The author considers Islamic prosyletizers to be responsible for the diffusion of rectangular forms and mud masonry in areas where wet-mud methods and, therefore, curved forms, were the local tradition ...
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Negation in South Mande

2009
Southern Mande languages, spoken in Côte-d’Ivoire, Liberia and Guinea, display different strategies in the expression of negation. The most frequent one consists in the use of special “negative” series of personal subject pronouns (all Dan languages, Mano, Tura, Guro, Yaure, Mwan, Beng). In some languages the negative pronouns are completed
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Maize and the Mande Myth

Current Anthropology, 1971
This paper is an attempt to evaluate the evidence offered by the Mande myth and tribal traditions for the introduction into western Africa of the American maize plant at a date long before the birth of Columbus. The Mande have a myth in which maize travels from west to east down the Niger to Lake Debo near Timbuktu, on the "buckle of the Niger." This ...
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A comparison of mand training and discrete trial training on the acquisition of vocal mands suggests that an antecedent verbal stimulus may inhibit independent manding

Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 2019
Q (1) Is mand training or discrete trial training (DTT) more effective in increasing the rate of acquisition of independent vocal mands?(2) What teaching procedures can produce a transfer of stimul...
Katie Wolfe, Meka N. McCammon
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