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Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 Studies of Ciyao, a Bantu language classified as P.21 by Guthrie [1967-71], agree that there are 18 noun classes, each of which determines a primary prefix on the noun, and concord prefixes on elements that agree with head nouns.
Annindo S. Ngunga
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The Preconceptual Basis of Noun Class (Gender)
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 Noun class is widely seen as “standing out” from other morphosyntactic categories in having a basis in ontological beliefs, or a ‘semantic core’.
Patrik Bye
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Phonological processes in the noun class system of lama.
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 The purpose of this paper is to account for the phonological processes taking place within noun classes and across noun classes in Lama, particularly when some class suffixes are attached to noun stems.
Meterwa A. Ourso
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Noun classification in Wolof when affixes are not renewed
Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 The Wolof noun class system exhibits a variety of class assignment strategies based on the intersection of semantic, morphological, phonological and sociolinguistic criteria.
Fiona McLaughlin
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Language, 2019 :Previous research on the acquisition of noun classification systems (e.g. grammatical gender) has found that child learners rely disproportionately on phonological cues to determine the class of a new noun, even when competing semantic cues are more ...
J. Culbertson +3 more
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Floating tone noun class prefixes in Mada (Nigeria)
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021 Mada [mda], a Plateau language spoken in central Nigeria, has many seemingly inexplicable tone alternations that occur between the singular and plural forms of nouns.
Keith L. Snider
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Relic noun-class structure in Leggbo
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Larry M. Hyman, Imelda Udoh
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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Open Linguistics, 2020 This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’.
Makeeva Nadezhda, Shluinsky Andrey
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Avatime noun classes and concord
Studies in African Linguistics, 1995 Avatime is one of 14 "Central-Togo" (or "Togo Remnant") languages, spoken in Ghana, Togo, and Benin. These languages differ from their nearest Kwa group relatives in that they have active systems of noun classes and concord.
Russell G. Schuh
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