Search Results - "Yakpo, Kofi"

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple by Yakpo, Kofi

“…This study refutes the common idea that tone gets simplified or eliminated in creoles and contact languages. Speakers of African tone languages imposed tone…”
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Social entrenchment influences the amount of areal borrowing in contact languages by Yakpo, Kofi

“…Aims and objectives: Social factors in language contact are not well understood. This study seeks to establish and explain the role of social entrenchment in…”
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West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain by Yakpo, Kofi

“…West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a cluster of related, mutually intelligible, restructured Englishes with up to 140 million speakers in Nigeria, Cameroon,…”
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Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba): Structural and Areal-Typological Aspects by Bisilki, Abraham, Yakpo, Kofi

“…Likpakpaln is a little-described Mabia (Gur) language of northern Ghana. Drawing on primary data, this first study of adjectives in Likpakpaln concludes that…”
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A Meta-Analytic Study of the Neural Systems for Auditory Processing of Lexical Tones by Kwok, Veronica P Y, Dan, Guo, Yakpo, Kofi, Matthews, Stephen, Fox, Peter T, Li, Ping, Tan, Li-Hai

“…The neural systems of lexical tone processing have been studied for many years. However, previous findings have been mixed with regard to the hemispheric…”
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English by Yakpo, Kofi

“…In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana…”
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Unidirectional multilingual convergence: typological and social factors by Yakpo, Kofi

“…Suriname represents an interesting case of unidirectional multilingual convergence in a linguistic area. The multilingual ecology of Suriname is hierarchical…”
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Neural correlates and functional connectivity of lexical tone processing in reading by Kwok, Veronica P.Y., Matthews, Stephen, Yakpo, Kofi, Tan, Li Hai

“…•Bilateral frontal, parietal, motor and cingulate regions are engaged in Chinese tone reading.•Temporal regions are not involved in lexical tone processing in…”
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Neural signatures of lexical tone reading by Kwok, Veronica P.Y., Wang, Tianfu, Chen, Siping, Yakpo, Kofi, Zhu, Linlin, Fox, Peter T., Tan, Li Hai

“…Research on how lexical tone is neuroanatomically represented in the human brain is central to our understanding of cortical regions subserving language. Past…”
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Neural systems for auditory perception of lexical tones by Kwok, Veronica P.Y., Dan, Guo, Yakpo, Kofi, Matthews, Stephen, Tan, Li Hai

“…Previous neuroimaging research on cognitive processing of speech tone has generated dramatically different patterns of findings. Even at the basic perception…”
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A framework law on the right to food - an international and South African perspective by Yakpo, Kofi, Coomans, Fons

“…It is a well-known fact that millions of people all over the world do not have access to food on a daily basis or face hunger, malnutrition and starvation,…”
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