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Tense, Aspect, and Bukusu Verb Tones [PDF]
, 1996 This study is supported in part by NSF Grant SBR-9421362 while preliminary data gathering was funded by a grant from the OSU Language Files ...
Mutonyi, Nasiombe
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LANGUAGE IN CONTACT: THE CASE OF THE FULƁE DIALECT OF KEJOM (BABANKI) [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes the variety of Babanki (henceforth called Kejom) spoken by native Fulfulde speakers born and raised in Kejom communities. Kejom is a Center Ring Grassfi elds Bantu language spoken in two villages (Kejom Ketinguh and Kejom Keku) in ...
AKUMBU, Pius W., ASONGANYI, Esther P.
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How To Study a Tone Language [PDF]
, 2014 In response to requests I have often got as to how one approaches a tone language, I present a personal view of the three stages involved, starting from scratch and arriving at an analysis: Stage I: Determining the tonal contrasts and their approximate ...
Hyman, Larry
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Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]
, 1999 Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
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El poder predictivo en la pronunciación de palabras inglesas noveles por hablantes bilingües [PDF]
, 2001 Teaching English pronunciation should involve not only production and reception exercises but also the formation of predictive power for the pronunciation of novel words.
Cuenca Villarín, María Heliodora
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Contains table of contents for Section 4, an introduction and abstracts for three doctoral ...
Chomsky, A. Noam +4 more
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Yakpo K.
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Tonal inversion in Geji and Pelu [PDF]
, 2011 Geji and Pelu are two dialects of Geji proper, a language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Pelu and Geji are two very close dialects with very similar lexicon. However, tonal inversion is frequently observed in pre-pausal forms.
Caron, Bernard
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Comment se sortir d'un mauvais pas: Variation sur la 2ème personne dans les langues tchadiques Sud-Bauchi [PDF]
, 2011 The Proto-West-Chadic pronominal system reconstructed by Newman & Schuh shows a singular/plural opposition relying mainly on a vocalic contrast inside a CV form.
Caron, Bernard
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Squib: A feature geometric analysis of Pirahã phonology and tonology (Mura)
Revista Linguística, 2015 Neste trabalho revisamos alguns fatos da fonologia e da tonologia Pirahã apresentados em alguns trabalhos anteriores (Everett (1983), Sheldon (1974, 1988), K.Everett (1998)) com novos dados.
Glauber Romling da Silva
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