Abstract This study investigates the acquisition of labio-velar stops by Ga-speaking children in Ghana. Such stops were elicited in initial, intervocalic, and pre-lateral positions through a picture naming task. Sixty Ga-dominant and Ga-English children at 5-, 61/2-, and 8-years of age were tested. All age groups showed some difficulty with the doubly articulated stops, but this was relative to voicing, phonological environment, age, and input. Performance on the voiceless labio-velar stop was better than on the voiced labio-velar stop, and better in intervocalic position than in word-initial and pre-lateral positions. Older children performed better than younger children and Ga-dominant children better than Ga-English children. Performance was better when children did not receive a prompt than when they did. Analysis of modifications reveals frequent processes of simplification to labial singleton stops, some voicing changes, and the occurrence of processes of vowel insertion between the stops and /l/. These findings are discussed in terms of universals of speech sound acquisition, the role of input, and the influence of language-specific factors on children’s performance.
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{"title":"Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) language and culture","authors":"S. van Putten","doi":"10.1515/jall-2021-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2021-2019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44693288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1515/jall-2021-frontmatter2
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Abstract The Bambara foot is represented as a rhythmic unit which can be disyllabic or monosyllabic. Foot-parsing is both segmentally and morphologically conditioned. A foot can coincide with a morpheme or be smaller than a morpheme, but it cannot include more than one morpheme. The main factors for foot-parsing are: types of initial consonants, types of internal consonants and vocalic combinations; directionality (left to right) is a secondary factor. Segmentation into feet is relevant for the realization of tone. Disyllabic feet are subdivided into two types, heavy and light; heavy feet have a long vowel in the initial syllable, while light feet have a short vowel in this position which is susceptible to elision (depending on phonotactics). It seems unnecessary to postulate stress in Bambara. The views of previous researchers on the Bambara foot are critically analyzed.
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Résumé Comme bien d’autres langues isolantes, le samba leko dispose de morphèmes transcatégoriels et polyfonctionnels quelque peu déroutants pour le descripteur à la recherche de l’invariant sémantique supposé observable dans la variété de leurs emplois. On se propose ici, au travers des différentes attestations de ce terme dans le corpus textuel de première main, de traiter de l’élément na᷆ ∼ na᷄w que les locuteurs traduisent instinctivement ‘en main’, mais dont la signification dépasse largement cette valeur référentielle. Au travers des exemples, on verra que la possession aliénable, la temporalité et le contrôle semblent au cœur du sémantisme de cet élément.
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Abstract This study presents a theoretically informed description of the expression of modality in Logoori (Luyia; Bantu). We document verbal and non-verbal modal expressions in Logoori, and show how these expressions fit into proposed typologies of modal systems (Kratzer, Angelika. 1981. The notional category of modality. In Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer & Hannes Rieser (eds.), Words, worlds, and contexts: New approaches in word semantics, 38–74. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Kratzer, Angelika. 1991. Modality. In Armin von Stechow & Dieter Wunderlich (eds.), Semantics: An international handbook of contemporary research, 639–650. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; van der Auwera, Johan & Vladimir Plungian. 1998. Modality’s semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2. 79–124. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79; Nauze, Fabrice. 2008. Modality in typological perspective. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation PhD thesis). We show that Logoori’s modal system raises some interesting questions regarding the typology and theoretical analysis of modality and its relationship to other kinds of meaning. Our study contributes to the nascent but growing research on modal systems cross linguistically by adding data from an understudied Bantu language.
摘要本研究对洛戈里语（Luyia；Bantu）中情态的表达进行了理论上的描述。我们在Logoori中记录了言语和非言语模态表达，并展示了这些表达如何融入所提出的模态系统类型（Kratzer，Angelika.1981）。模态的概念范畴。Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer和Hannes Rieser（编辑），《单词、世界和语境：单词语义的新方法》，38-74。柏林：Mouton de Gruyter，Kratzer，Angelika。1991.模态。Armin von Stechow和Dieter Wunderlich（编辑），《语义学：当代研究国际手册》，639-650。柏林：Mouton de Gruyter；van der Auwera，Johan和Vladimir Plungian。1998，情态的语义图。语言类型学2。79–124。https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79；Nauze，Fabrice。2008年，从类型学角度看情态。阿姆斯特丹：逻辑、语言和计算研究所博士论文）。我们发现，洛戈里的情态系统提出了一些有趣的问题，涉及情态的类型学和理论分析，以及它与其他意义的关系。我们的研究通过添加研究不足的班图语的数据，为跨语言的模态系统研究做出了贡献。
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Abstract The three most common strategies used to modify a head noun, namely through a possessive, an adjective and a relative clause construction feature in Siwi the use of the preposition n. Its presence is obligatory in the possessive constructions, but only present before an adjective or a relative clause in some contexts, depending on the level of restriction that the speaker wants to place on the head noun. The aim of the article is to describe the use and function of n in all three contexts of noun modification in Siwi and present supplementary data that helps the understanding of the global function of this preposition.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.1515/jall-2020-frontmatter1
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The following is a continuation of our comprehensive list of recently published books andmonographs onAfrican languages and linguistics. Prices are givenwhere available. This list serves as an acknowledgement of receipt of review copies of the items marked (R). Copies of book reviews printed in the journal are automatically sent to the publishers. There can be no guarantee, however, that all works received will in fact be reviewed.Authorswhowould like to reviewaparticular book orwould like to be considered in general as potential reviewers are encouraged towrite to the editor indicating their areal and topical fields of interest (Nina van der Vlugt).
以下是我们最近出版的关于非洲语言和语言学的书籍和专著的综合清单的延续。价格在可用的地方给出。此列表作为收到标有(R)的项目评论副本的确认。期刊上发表的书评副本将自动发送给出版商。然而，不能保证所有收到的作品都会被审查。如果作者想要评论某一本书，或者想要被认为是潜在的评论者，我们鼓励他们写信给编辑，表明他们感兴趣的领域和主题领域(Nina van der Vlugt)。
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