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Recognition of Familiar Wordforms and Phonological Variation in Akan by Multilingual Infants Learning African Tone Languages in Ghana

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent developmental evidence shows that the proposal that consonants are more important than vowels for lexical processing is not universal but language‐specific. In non‐tone languages, a consonant bias emerges early in development in Romance languages (e.g., French) but later in Germanic languages (e.g., English), while evidence from Asian ...
Paul Okyere Omane, Reginald Akuoko Duah, Thierry Nazzi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Delphi Participant as an Ancestor: Introducing the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer for Mitigating Future Discounting Bias in Southern Africa Collectivist Culture

FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer (UIP), a culturally grounded cognitive debiasing intervention designed to mitigate future discounting bias among Real‐Time Delphi (RTD) participants in Southern Africa. Learning from prior research engagements and informed by the region's cultural settings, we innovated around the Rip ...
Simbarashe Nhokovedzo, Norbert Kolos, Petri Tapio, Geci Karuri‐Sebina   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A linguistic study of reduplication in Sesotho [PDF]

, 2015
The concept of reduplication has attracted interest from many linguists in recent years. This is because reduplication is an important phenomenon in languages.
Ekanjume-Ilongo, Beatrice
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Folktales as Inclusive, Culturally Relevant Teaching Resources to Enhance Engagement and Participation in Sesotho Language Classrooms: Teachers’ Perceptions

Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies
Folktales are old enduring oral stories which have been passed from generation to generation and serve as conveyers of Basotho traditions and customs. Their rich cultural and social content make them an inspiring and interesting topic to most learners ...
Maseriti Lineo Hyacinth Morakabi, Matseliso Alice Mohoebi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language Contact, Contamination, Containment, and Shift: Lessons From Multilingual Gwanda South, Zimbabwe

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2023
This article seeks to evaluate the level and type of changes in Sesotho as a result of language contact in multilingual Gwanda South, Zimbabwe. It will indicate choices that speech communities have and reasons for specific language preferences.
Erasmos Charamba, Omphile Marupi
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of the Common Elements Treatment Approach on HIV Treatment Outcomes Among Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: A Randomized Trial

Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 29, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction In South Africa, which has the world's highest prevalence of HIV, intimate partner violence (IPV) and common mental health conditions are barriers to retention in HIV treatment and achieving viral suppression. The Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA), a cognitive‐behavioural‐therapy‐based intervention designed for lay ...
Matthew P. Fox, Jeremy C. Kane, Sithabile Mngadi‐Ncube, Amy Zheng, Kristina Metz, Pertunia Manganye, Lawrence Long, Ross Greener, Srishti Sardana, Taylor Allen, Donald M. Thea, Bridgette Goeieman, Marnie Vujovic, Laura K. Murray, Sophie Pascoe   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sesotho syllable wordlist

, 2022
This package contains a wordlist containing Sesotho words and their syllable ...
van Zaanen, Menno, Sibeko, Johannes
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Code-switching as an Instructional Strategy in a Multilingual Classroom Setting: Examining Its Effects on the instruction of the Sesotho Home Language [PDF]

Journal of Education and Learning Technology
Code-switching remains an enduring and widespread feature of linguistic contact in many South African communities. This study investigated the pedagogical and sociolinguistic implications of code-switching in multilingual South African classrooms by ...
Soyiso Khetoa
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing health literacy in indigenous Sesotho-speaking dialysis patients in South Africa: a multi-centre, cross-sectional study

African Journal of Nephrology, 2022
Background: Limited health literacy is associated with poor health outcomes in dialysis patients. In Africa, including South Africa, dialysis patients' health literacy levels are unknown.
Elsabet Van Rensburg, Marianne Reid, Melanie Pienaar, Mariette Nel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimality in Sesotho Translation

Journal of Social Sciences, 2014
Sesotho translators sometimes fall short to express optimally acceptable translations. The objective of this paper is therefore to demonstrate the translator's role in constituting an optimally and culturally acceptable translation. In terms of the optimality theory, the translator has to deal effectively and efficiently with the emerging translation ...
openaire   +1 more source