Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Downstep in the vast majority of cases can be traced to the influence of a low tone [Hyman 1979]. This paper discusses the case of Supyire, a three tone language with downstep unrelated to low tone.
Robert Carlson
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Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo. [PDF]
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020 The field of psychology relies heavily on evidence from North America and Northern Europe. Universally applicable models require input from around the globe. Indigenous lexical studies of personality, which define the most salient person-descriptive concepts and their structure in a population, provide this.
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ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006 Supyire has two distinct genitive constructions, one consisting of juxtaposed nouns, and the other marked with a particle. This study demonstrates that the marked genitive correlates significantly in natural discourse with contrastive focus as operationally defined in Myhill and Xing (1996).
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Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 2024.Abstract Human languages vary in terms of which meanings they lexicalize, but this variation is constrained. It has been argued that languages are under two competing pressures: the pressure to be simple (e.g., to have a small lexicon) and to allow for informative (i.e., precise) communication, and that which meanings get lexicalized may be explained ...
Milica Denić, Jakub Szymanik
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The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Thalmayer AG +3 more
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Ubiquitous Personality-Trait Concepts in 13 Diverse and Isolated Languages: A Cluster-Classification Approach. [PDF]
Eur J Pers, 2020 Wood JK, Gurven M, Goldberg LR.
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Supplemental Material for Personality Structure in East and West Africa: Lexical Studies of Personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo [PDF]
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2019 openaire +1 more source
Explicit and implicit second language training differentially affect the achievement of native-like brain activation patterns. [PDF]
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Second language processing shows increased native-like neural responses after months of no exposure. [PDF]
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When bases clash: cultural, cognitive and practical ramifications of numeration systems used in parallel. [PDF]
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