Akan, a Ghanaian language in the Kwa subbranch of the Niger-Congo family~ exhibits a robust system of vmvel harmony for tongue root position. Much of the research on Akan has also posited the existence of a system for ...

Verlan is a language game that has long existed in France, but became widely-used by youth from the banlieues, the French suburban “ghetto,” in the 1970s. It reverses a Standard French word to produce a new form that ...

During the past 20 years, interest in bilingualism and second language development has grown enormously, and several inquiries have been researched. One such inquiry has been the effects of bilingualism on the brain, and ...

This thesis examines language attitudes toward Swahili, English, and other languages in Tanzania. Swahili and English, Tanzania’s two official languages, are analyzed to a greater extent than other languages. However, the ...

Orality and literacy are two very different yet permanently related aspects of human language. All languages have their origins in primary orality, and only a fraction of all existing languages have actually ever been ...

This thesis focuses on the phonological connections between three modern varieties (Mitla, Isthmus, San Lucas Quiaviní of the Zapotec language and Colonial Valley Zapotec, a variety spoken roughly 500 years ago. Zapotec ...

A rapid linguistic shift is happening in the Chinese community in Argentina, one of the newest immigrant groups in the country. Second- and third-generation Chinese-Argentines are quickly abandoning their home language ...

In this thesis, I address the issue of whether there is a difference between listening to and reading a book, and how much it is possible to determine if one is better than the other for the purposes of retaining information. ...