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Issues in the acquisition of the Sesotho tonal system

Journal of Child Language, 1993
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the acquisition of the grammatical tone system of Sesotho, a southern Bantu language where tone sandhi is rich, and where surface and underlying representations are often quite distinct. Results of the longitudinal case study show that rule-assigned tone on subject markers is generally marked appropriately by age two.
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The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2006
A previous study of passive constructions has suggested that these are much more frequent in Sesotho than in English spontaneous speech (Demuth, 1989). This has raised a number of questions regarding the possible effects of the input on the apparently earlier acquisition of passives in Sesotho.
Demuth, Katherine, Kline, Melissa
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The Sesotho locative alternation verbs

South African Journal of African Languages, 1996
This article examines the Sesotho locative alternation verbs, i.e. verbs which participate in an alternation that involves a locative phrase.
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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TERMINOLOGY IN SESOTHO

South African Journal of African Languages, 1986
Sesotho (alias Southern Sotho), comparable to other African Languages, is rich in vocabulary relevant to the traditional life and environment of its speakers. However, like many developing countries' languages, it is deficient in technical terms and terms for modern and abstract concepts that continuously flood in as a result of massive cultural change.
Z. A. Matšela, M. B. Mochaba
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The acquisition of Sesotho nominal agreement

Morphology, 2012
The acquisition of Bantu noun class prefixes has long been an issue of theoretical interest, due in part to the large number of gender classes. In contrast, the acquisition of Bantu nominal agreement has received little attention. Given findings from other languages, one might expect the phonologically transparent system of Bantu agreement to be ...
Katherine Demuth, Sara Weschler
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The form of contemporary Sesotho proverbs

South African Journal of African Languages, 2014
There are newly coined contemporary Sesotho proverbs and traditional proverbs that have been altered to suit modernity. These proverbs are being used in everyday language by Basotho. However, the main challenge is to establish whether they have the same form as traditional proverbs.
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Sesotho is still a marginalised language

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2019
This article reports on the progress (or lack thereof) regarding the use of Sesotho as an official medium of communication in selected government departments in the Free State Provincial Government (FSPG). In South Africa, provincial governments are required to implement language policies that promote multilingualism.
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Maturation and the Acquisition of the Sesotho Passive

Language, 1989
Borer & Wexler 1987 explain the apparent late acquisition of verbal passive in English and Hebrew by hypothesizing that the principle governing A-chain formation matures relatively late in language development. However, in Sesotho, a Bantu language, verbal passives are acquired early, by at least 2;8 years.
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The scope of negation in Sesotho

2018
Negation is described by Zanuttini (1997) as the syntactic process by which a language employ negative markers to negate a clause in order to express a negative proposition. Negation entails constituent negation and sentence negation which together serve as inferences to the scope of negation. Du Plessis and Visser (1992) describe scope as that portion
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The Sesotho riddle as a poetic text

South African Journal of African Languages, 1996
This paper illustrates that the Sesotho riddle, like the Sesotho proverb, is poetic in nature. Several poetic devices such as parallelism, contrast, idiophones, repetitions and others contribute to its poetic nature. There are some syntactic features that operate at different levels of word, word group, phrases and sentences that help to make the ...
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