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“They do not know much, but then, you have to cover the syllabus”: The quality imperative – a dilemma for teachers’ in early grade multilingual classrooms in Kenyan primary schools

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2015
The centrality of language in any education system cannot be overemphasised. Wolff (2006: 50) sums this up by stating that “language is not everything in education, but without language everything is nothing in education”.
Susan Nyaga
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Nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic

Afrika und Übersee, 2021
This paper contrasts the strategies for marking nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic, and offers some thoughts on their possible origin and development.
Matthew Harley
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Graziano Savà and Mauro Tosco, An Annotated Edition of Father G. Toselli’s Dizi Grammar

Aethiopica, 2020
Review
Marvin Beachy
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The manifold uses of –a in Naro, including comments on a.

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
Several homophones –a occur in Naro. In this paper, an attempt is made to disambiguate the functional properties of –a, and also of the stand-alone a. The different uses will be shown, together with examples of each.
Hessel Visser
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German in East Lorraine? Reflections on the status of the autochthonous varieties in Northeast France based on the character of near-standard speech

Globe, 2023
Sometimes a change of a language border is linked to a change in language status of a group of diatopic varieties. The assessment of language status relates, among other things, to the existence of a common norm (standard variety) and the language ...
Rahel Beyer
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Vowel and tone processes in Ife (Togo)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures
This article describes the morphophonological and morphotonological processes that occur when vowels are juxtaposed in Ife, an Ede language closely related to Yoruba that is spoken in Togo and Benin.
Anna Kohler, David Roberts, Komi Sena, Matthew Harley   +3 more
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A phonological description of Naba

Afrika und Übersee, 2022
Naba, also known as Bilala, is a Nilo-Saharan (Sara-Bagirmi) language of Chad with about 410,000 speakers from three ethnic groups. This paper gives a basic description of the Naba phonological system, using segmental phonology and lexical phonology ...
Elaine Marie Scherrer
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SIL Allocation of APM Based on MODSafe Method

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
Objective APM (automated people mover) has very high requirements for safety, and the existing SIL (safety integrity level) allocation method cannot meet the demand of APM projects efficiently and accurately. In order to ensure the safety and reliability
WANG Yixian, CHEN Zhen, GUAN Peiyao
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Quantitative Analysis and Allocation of Safety Integrity Level Indexes for Urban Rail Transit Vehicle System

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
Objective Development and application of FAO (fully automatic operation)system in urban rail transit train requires higher safety of urban rail vehicle system.
QIN Jiaomei, PAN Demin, FAN Kaijiang
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Nominal and verbal number in Bilugu Opo

Studies in African Linguistics, 2019
Opo (a.k.a. Opuuo, Tʼapo [lgn]), a Koman language spoken in Ethiopia and South Sudan, has complex and interesting systems of both NOMINAL NUMBER and VERBAL NUMBER.
Joshua A.G. Smolders
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