The Acquisition Of Swahili
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Author | : Kamil Ud Deen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789027253002 |
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surveys the adult dialect in question, Nairobi Swahili, discussing social, phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Data, analyses and copious examples are presented of the naturalistic speech of four Swahili speaking children. The data are tested against six influential theories of child language, and the results show that processing and metrical theories of telegraphic speech fail to account for the observed patterns, while grammatical theories of child language fair significantly better. The data and analyses presented in this book are indispensable for linguists and psychologists interested in the acquisition of inflectional material and other cross-linguistic properties of child language.
Author | : Jason Kandybowicz |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3961100365 |
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages.
Author | : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789966468239 |
This text examines the social and political impact of the Swahili language.
Author | : Isabelle Buchstaller |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027270767 |
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient investigation of other contact varieties. Even more perniciously, lesser known and often under-described contact languages have not been taken into consideration when formulating supposedly general tendencies about the linguistic properties of contact languages. This volume aims to give a platform to research on the history, genesis, and typology of a number of non-European language-based contact languages. A more encompassing and diverse data-base will contribute to more accurate and comprehensive inventories of the typological features of contact languages.
Author | : Pilar Larranaga |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110238810 |
Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.
Author | : Johannes Fabian |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027278253 |
Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized, and for the colonized. The original text, a history of what is now Lubumbashi in the Shaba region of Zaire, is reproduced in exact facsimile in Part 1. The period covered is from the beginning of Belgian colonization to 1965. The text was commissioned by an association of former domestic servants and written, or compiled, by one Andre Yav. The facsimile text is followed by linguistic notes (provided by W. Schicho) on the variety of Swahili used by the author. In Part 2 this amazing document is twice translated: first, into an oralized' version in current Shaba Swahili and, second, into English. Numerous historical and linguistic notes make the text accessible to the non-specialist. While Parts 1 and 2 are of particular interest to linguists, Part 3 covers a wider area of intellectual concerns. It is an essay analyzing the social conditions, literary means and political purposes and importance of the history. Of interest to linguists, historians, sociologists and political scientists.
Author | : Martin J. Ball |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-07-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1788924401 |
This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Bangla, Croatian, Colombian Spanish, Inuktitut, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Tamil and Turkish. Some of these languages are included as they are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, the US, Australia and elsewhere. Others are included because they are languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists. The collection will be an invaluable resource book for speech-language pathologists who wish to analyse and assess the grammatical abilities of their clients who speak one of these languages. This new collection complements previous books in this series on the same theme and together they cover 34 languages of the world.
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Jeanette Altarriba |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1107008905 |
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory, language and cognitive processing across various populations of bilingual speakers.
Author | : Andrew Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2008-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199286744 |
This book focuses on language, culture, and identity in nineteen countries in Africa. Leading specialists, mainly from Africa, describe national linguistic and political histories, assess the status of majority and minority languages, and consider the role of language in ethnic conflict.