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N-initial nouns in Landuma and their counterparts in Mande

Journal of Language Relationship, 2021
This paper describes a group of kin terms in Landuma (a Mel language spoken in northwestern Guinea) which have a non-standard phonological structure: they begin with the consonant cluster NC.
N. Sumbatova, V. Vydrin
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"THE IMPORTANCE OF MANDE TEXTILES IN THE AFRICAN SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC TRADE, CA. 1680-1710"

Mande Studies, 2023
:Production and trade of cotton textiles in West Africa go back at least a millennium, creating a 'cotton culture' that spawned centers producing cottons for export. This article focuses on a number of such centers that were located in the hinterlands of
Colleen E. Kriger
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Tones and paradigms: a study of grammatical tones in Mande verbal inflection

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2022
This paper explores how grammatical tones (GTs) are organized into inflectional paradigms in a sample of 20 Mande languages (Niger-Congo), where tonal morphology plays a central role in the expression of TAMP meanings.
M. Konoshenko
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West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages)

, 2014
Before the writing and orthography reforms of the 20th century, traditional Arabic script was the only form of writing known to the majority of West African Muslims. New letters and vowel-signs for Ajami were being created, at first without any attempts at standardization.
N. Dobronravin
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Mande

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, 2020
The chapter surveys the history of classification of Mande languages from the first attempts in 1849 to the most recent ones on the basis of quantitative approaches to language classification, linguistic reconstruction, and theories on language stability.
Henning Schreiber
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Perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande

, 2020
This paper provides a diachronic construction-based explanation of the differential perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande languages, using the Greater Manding group as an exemplar case.
Dmitry Idiatov
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Word Classes in Mande Languages

2023
Abstract The Mande language family includes about 70 languages which show a high degree of typological homogeneity in most respects. In particular, all Mande languages have extremely rigid word order patterns, which facilitates the use of distributional criteria in the recognition of word classes.
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Inclusory pronouns in Mande: The emergence of a typological rarum

Folia linguistica, 2019
This paper reviews inclusory constructions and pronouns in the Mande language family and proposes a diachronic account of their development. Inclusory constructions, which are found in several Mande languages, are a type of conjunction strategy where the
M. Khachaturyan
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Negatively-Reinforced Mands

Behavior Modification, 2016
In this study, we extended the literature on negatively-reinforced mands by teaching multiple novel, socially appropriate alternative mands to two young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). First, we replaced existing mands (e.g., pushing away) with two novel, socially appropriate, negatively-reinforced mands.
Laura C, Chezan, Erik, Drasgow, Christian A, Martin, James W, Halle   +3 more
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The acquisition of verbal tone in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)

First language
The literature on the acquisition of tone is dominated by East Asian languages, but as the characteristics of tone systems vary across language families, many tonal phenomena remain virtually unstudied.
Laura McPherson
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