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A typology of the use of clicks
Click speech sounds were first identified as consonants in the 17th century. On his voyage to India in 1627, the …
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Secondary concepts and internal dynamics of Emai Serial Verb Constructions
We examine verbs in series as they relate to Dixon’s (1991, 2010) notion of secondary concepts. Our verb samples and …
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Serial Verb Constructions in North-West Semitic languages: From a synchronic radiation back to the ‘Big Bang’
The present article argues that Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in North-West Semitic (NWS) languages have emerged from clause fusion. The …
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Perceptions of educational interpreting at SU: Towards a more informed and supportive interpreting service
This article reports on a study conducted in October 2019 by the interpreters in the research portfolio of Stellenbosch University’s …
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The Phonological System of TumɁi
As part of a linguistic research team I recorded a Khoisan language currently spoken by three people in the Northern …
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A sign of The Times: an APPRAISAL analysis of the imagined community’s bonding in letters to a South African newspaper
This article investigates how writers to The Times, formerly a daily national newspaper, used APPRAISAL strategies in letters to the …
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Metacognition and the complex process of developing identities via a second language: addressing the challenges healthcare professionals are facing in a multilingual context
This qualitative study takes into account that healthcare professionals are increasingly required to function in a multilingual environment where they …
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Melodic High Tones in Emihavani
Emihavani is a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Malawi. It is a dialect of Emakhuwa, a language whose origins lie …
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Khoekhoe Lexical Borrowing in Regionalised Afrikaans
This brief paper aims to draw attention to the widespread and ongoing phenomenon of lexical borrowing from Khoekhoe-branch languages into …
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The colour of liquid: a sociophonetic analysis of the changing positional allophony of the South African English lateral approximant
This article provides a sociophonetic analysis of General South African English /l/, based on the naturalistic speech of 50 male …
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Optical Character Recognition and text cleaning in the indigenous South African languages
This article represents follow-up work on unpublished presentations by the authors of text and corpus cleaning strategies for the African …
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On five-level tone contrasts: the case of Dan-Gblewo
The central goal of this research is to propose that no language utilizes more than four level pitches contrastively (from …
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Interstitial small stories in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
Interstices are those residual, left-over, spaces associated with movement across and between urban forms. Interstices in the business district of …
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Phonological and Morphological Influences on Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Rutooro
When the morphology of a language creates instances of successive vowels, these cases of vowel hiatus are often resolved or …
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An exploration into Penultimate and Final Lengthening in Tswana (Southern Bantu)
This study investigates the segmental lengthening patterns resulting from prosodic boundaries in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language. The aim is …
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Pre-nominal DP modifiers and penultimate lengthening in Xitsonga
Bantu languages generally have a noun-initial DP word order but they typically allow for demonstratives, and in some languages also …
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Oor Ilse Feinauer
Reeds sedert haar studentedae het Ilse Feinauer haar onderskei as iemand met ’n besondere en veelsydige gerigtheid op en bekwaamheid …
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Die sigbaarheid van vertaaldheid in resensies van vertaalde Engelse en Afrikaanse romans
The tendency to review translated texts as “original” works has been studied by various scholars in literary criticism (see for …
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’n Vergelykende ondersoek na die Afrikaans- en Zulu-vertalings van “South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects” deur Adam Habib
In 2013 Adam Habib published South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects. Habib approached the Wits Language School and asked …
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South Africa’s image as translated in Dutch-language media
This contribution first explores the position of Journalistic Translation Research within the discipline of Translation Studies and, subsequently, describes the …