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Words and Scents: How Language Shapes and Skews Olfactory Processing

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on language and olfaction presents a paradox. Language appears to support the formation of odor categories, yet it can also hinder odor recognition through verbal interference, highlighting that different olfactory processes get affected in distinct ways.
Norbert Vanek
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Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili [PDF]

The comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages is often based on contemporary, synchronic data since many African languages do not have a long-written record.
Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Jerro, Kyle, Marten, Lutz   +3 more
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ManyBabies 3: A Multi‐Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7‐month‐old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were able to generalize those rules to novel syllable sequences.
Ingmar Visser, Andreea Geambasu, George Kachergis, Cátia M. Oliveira, Joscelin Rocha‐Hidalgo, Martin Zettersten, Teruni Ahamat, Nicolás Alessandroni, Nadja Althaus, Sudha Arunachalam, Suzanne Aussems, Emma L Axelsson, Zeynep Aydin, Heidi A. Baumgartner, Christina Bergmann, Roberta Bettoni, Alexis K. Black, Hermann Bulf, Krista Byers‐Heinlein, Chiara Capparini, Lily Carroll, Alexandra Carstensen, Rebekka Cebulla, Xiaoyun Chen, Kateřina Chládková, Benedetta Colavolpe, Rodica R Constantine, Elísabet Eir Cortes, Frances L. Doyle, Anna Exner, Samuel H Forbes, Laura Franchin, Alessandra Geraci, Judit Gervain, Nayeli Gonzalez‐Gomez, Silje Hagelund, Erin E Hannon, Naomi Havron, Sagi Jaffe‐Dax, Scott P Johnson, Wiktoria Jędryczka, Natalia Kartushina, Melissa Kline Struhl, Ada Koleini, Abhinav Kona, Shannon P Kong, Jessica E Kosie, Monika Kuc̆erová, Katerina Cook, Jared Wayne Leslie, Casey Lew‐Williams, Scarlet Wan Yee Li, Romi Livne, Ellen Marklund, Julien Mayor, Michal Misiak, David Moreau, Jutta L. Mueller, Amber Muhinyi, Alyssa A Quinn, Maartje E. J. Raijmakers, Audun Rosslund, Iris‐Corinna Schwarz, Jeanne L Shinskey, Mohinish Shukla, Sylvain Sirois, Piotr Sorokowski, Basma Sowan, Tibor Tauzin, Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Martina Turconi, Rebeca C Urizar, Lisa Wagner, Stephanie Wermelinger, Gert Westermann, Ivonne Weyers, Luiza S. B. Yuan, Martina S. Zaharieva, Tania S. Zamuner, Barbara Zapiór, Simone Zasso, J. Grace Zhou, Melanie Soderstrom, Clara C. Levelt   +83 more
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Swahili personality-trait vocabulary: A psycho-lexical study using dictionary and day-to-day conversations by indigenous speakers

International Journal of Personality Psychology
Human social behavior is a function of peoples’ personalities and individual differences. As humans engage in social behaviors, peoples’ traits and other unique attributes come out and get noticed, and community members may feel tempted to talk about ...
Harrun H. Garrashi, Boele De Raad, Dick P.H. Barelds   +2 more
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Analysis of language factors in a multilingual stutterer

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
The apparently predictable occurrence of stuttering in English-speaking stutterers has been well documented and has revealed a number of rules regarding stuttering loci known as the language factors. This study investigated the presence of these language
Nola Watt
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Sentiment Classification in Swahili Language Using Multilingual BERT

, 2021
Accepted to African NLP Workshop, EACL 2021 (non-archival)
Gati L. Martin, Medard E. Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong   +2 more
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 820-833, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
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A Global Prospective Harmonization Framework for Suicidality, Anhedonia, and Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms in Psychiatric Genetic Studies: A Cross‐Continental Study Within the Ancestral Population Network

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Volume 201, Issue 6, Page 379-395, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study aims to prospectively collect harmonized, quantitative, and dimensional psychiatric phenotypes (suicidality, anhedonia, and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms) and information on discrimination, stigma, and unfair treatment in up to 27,500 individuals across diverse ancestries and clinical populations for genetic analysis within the NIMH
Ana M. Diaz‐Zuluaga, Jacey L. Anderberg, Ana M. Ramirez‐Diaz, Andrea Horvath Marques, Catherine E. Rast, Daniel Bustamante, Deborah Jonker, Johanna Valencia‐Echeverry, Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Josselyn S. Muñoz, Kristien van der Walt, Mauricio Castaño Ramirez, Olivia Wootton, Renee M. Frederick, Rocky E. Stroud II, Ruben Gur, Sang Jin Rhee, Shaili C. Jha, Stella Gichuru, Susan Service, Victor I. Reus, Akena Dickens, Carlos Lopez‐Jaramillo, Carrie E. Bearden, Dan J. Stein, Ezra S. Susser, James J. Crowley, Jonathan Flint, Kenneth S. Kendler, Lukoye Atwoli, Michele T. Pato, Nelson B. Freimer, Roel A. Ophoff, Yong Min Ahn, Loes Olde Loohuis, Eric A. Storch, Bizu Gelaye   +36 more
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On the history of studying proverbs in the Swahili language

Litera, 2021
The subject of this research is the African paremiology. The object is the history of studying proverbs in the Swahili language. The author examines the chronology of studying this field of linguistics by Western European and African scholars, cites their major works, and describes the peculiarities of their scientific views.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 436-445, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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