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Understanding the reading practices of first-year university students through their experiences

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Many studies have been conducted on the important role played by English reading literacy in the South African context and in many higher education institutions around the world.
Madoda Cekiso, Naomi Boakye, Florence Olifant   +2 more
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Les processus tonals en koyó

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2018
Koyó is a Bantu language with four tonal processes: tonal stability, anticipatory tone assimilation, tonal drop and tone insertion. The first process involves a compensatory vowel lengthening of the next element.
Régina Patience Ikemou
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About the substitution of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate among Igala speakers of English

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017
This article is a report of a micro research focusing on a specific case of deviant pronunciation among Igala speakers of English. Although deviations from native speaker norms are expected in any second language (L2) context, this particular deviation ...
Olushola Bamidele Are, Hope Akinola
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Question Formation in || Gana, a Khoesan Language

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2016
ǁGana is one of Botswana’s indigenous languages. It belongs to the Western branch of the Central Khoesan group of languages. Not much is known about the syntax of this language, which is now facing extinction.
Rose M. Letsholor
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L’indexation du sujet et de l’objet dans les langues atlantiques nord

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2015
In North-Atlantic languages (mostly spoken in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau), the subject is generally encoded in the verb, contrary to what is observed for example in West Mande languages, where the verb provides no information on the subject.
Alain-Christian Bassène
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Cognate object constructions in Degema

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of cognate object constructions in Degema2. Cognate object constructions refer to constructions that involve a verb and a cognate nominal object that is morphologically and semantically related to the verb.
Ethelbert Emmanuel Kari
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The morpho-syntactic coding of motion events in Igbò

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017
The phenomenon of motion events is universal in human cognition and language. These events are coded in the verbal structure of human language. This work builds on the past study of Igbo motion verbs and seeks to investigate the interaction between ...
Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo
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Serial Verb Constructions in Papiamentu: Historical, Synchronic and Comparative Observations

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2015
This paper is concerned with the nature and origin(s) of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Papiamentu, the Creole language of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, also known as the ABC-Islands.
Bart Jacobs
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La liaison tonale en shingazidja septentrional

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2016
This paper discusses a tone liaison phenomenon that occurs in the Northern dialect of Shingazidja, a Bantu language of Comoros. In this dialect, a tone appearing at the end of a Phonological Phrase spreads to the first syllable of the following ...
Cédric Patin
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David Jowitt, Nigerian English

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021
Bernard Caron
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