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International Journal of Personality PsychologyHuman 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 +2 more
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 183-194, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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No Difference in Face Scanning Patterns Between Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 5 Months of Age
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that bilinguals take greater advantage of visual speech cues than monolinguals. Therefore, in a sample of 474 (47.3% females) monolingual and 101 (48.5% females) bilingual infants at 5 months of age, we examined the tendency to look at the eyes versus the mouth of dynamic faces, as well as the latency and ratio of looking
Charlotte Viktorsson +1 more
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Swahili language in Afro-American culture [PDF]
, 2020 The article examines the role and functions of Swahili language in Africa and the USA, and using the vocabulary of Swahili in the Afro-American culture, particularly in the Afro-American festival of Kwanzaa, which founder is the American historian Maulana Karenga. Attention is also paid to ideology of Afrocentrism and replacing ‘slave’ names by Swahili
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Commercially processed complementary foods (CPCFs) are consumed in Kenya, but little is known about caregiver perceptions and reasons for their consumption. We explored caregiver perceptions, motivations and reasons for purchasing CPCFs. This cross‐sectional mixed‐methods study was conducted in Nairobi among caregivers of children aged 6–23 ...
Antonina N. Mutoro +5 more
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Improving the Computational Morphological Analysis of a Swahili Corpus for Lexicographic Purposes
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: Computational morphological analysis is an important first step in the automatic treatment of natural language and a useful lexicographic tool. This article describes a corpus-based approach to the morphological analysis of Swahili. We
Guy De Pauw, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 111-124, March 2026.Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
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A Corpus-based Survey of Four Electronic Swahili–English Bilingual Dictionaries
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: In this article we survey four different electronic bilingual dictionaries for the language pair Swahili–English. Aided by a data-driven morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger, we quantify the coverage of the dictionaries on ...
Guy De Pauw +2 more
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Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract HIV‐related stigma negatively impacts the health of people who are living with HIV. Stigma may also affect sero‐discordant couples where one partner is living with HIV, but the other is not. However, we know little about how HIV‐related stigma and couple relationship quality jointly affect depression and anxiety in both the individual and ...
Asuman Buyukcan‐Tetik +11 more
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Challenges of the implementation of language policies in southern Africa: what is the way forward?
Inkanyiso, 2016 At the attainment of independence, most African governments adopted the colonisers’ foreign languages as official languages to be used in business, the judiciary, education, local government and parliament.
Jairos Kangira
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