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Historical Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
core   +1 more source

A concept of a new Swahili-Polish Student Dictionary

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006
This paper presents a concept of a new Swahili-Polish (and Polish-Swahili) student dictionary. Given the growing interest in learning Swahili among Polish students, the fact that Swahili dictionaries are not easily available for purchase in Poland, and ...
Beata Wójtowicz
doaj  

Oral Health‐Related Quality of Life of Western Australian Refugee Children With Childhood Caries

open access: yesAustralian Dental Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Dental caries remains the most common chronic childhood condition and in Australia persists as a leading cause of potentially preventable hospitalisation. Despite various public health initiatives and improvements in oral health among the wider community, significant disparities exist among refugee families due to the unique ...
Jilen Patel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swahili Language Manager

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2004
Swahili Language Manager (SALAMA) is a computational environment for managing written Swahili language and for developing various kinds of language applications.
Arvi Hurskainen
doaj   +1 more source

The reliability, validity and factorial structure of the Swahili version of the 7-item generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7) among adults living with HIV from Kilifi, Kenya

open access: yesAnnals of General Psychiatry, 2020
Background Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is under-investigated in people living with HIV/AIDS from sub-Saharan Africa. In part, this is due to paucity of culturally appropriate measures for GAD which are psychometrically robust.
Moses K. Nyongesa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design‐based implementation research for digitally enabled education reform: Teacher professional development in Tanzania

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Design‐based implementation research (DBIR) offers a promising approach for refining and theorising the implementation and scale‐up of education interventions. However, integrating technology into national education reforms in resource‐constrained contexts adds complexity, involving multiple government bodies, implementers and researchers with
Taskeen Adam   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedding-Based Speaker Adaptive Training of Deep Neural Networks

open access: yes, 2017
An embedding-based speaker adaptive training (SAT) approach is proposed and investigated in this paper for deep neural network acoustic modeling. In this approach, speaker embedding vectors, which are a constant given a particular speaker, are mapped ...
Cui, Xiaodong   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Book Review

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2005
Book Review: Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu: Toleo la Pili. (A Standard Swahili-Swahili Dictionary. Second Edition.)
Arvi Hurskainen
doaj   +1 more source

The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili

open access: yesLinguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
doaj   +1 more source

Adapting a Widely Used Children's Disability Attitudes Measure: Validation of the Maryland East‐African Children's Attitudes Towards Disabilities (MEACAD) Scale

open access: yesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Chedoke‐McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps (CATCH), a 36‐item scale, is widely used to assess children's attitudes toward peers with disabilities. While recognized for its strong validity and reliability, it was developed nearly four decades ago in Canada for children aged 9 to 13 and no longer fully aligns with ...
Angshuman K. Kashyap   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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