Strikingly, almost all studies in which tone languages show pitch perception advantages involve East Asian tone languages with four or more tones. The major exception is Bradley (2016), who tested 15 speakers of Yoruba—a language with three level tones spoken in Nigeria—in a melody change dete...
Wu is a language that is part of the Chinese language family, and it�s spoken in the area of Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. If you have any friends from New York that are from China, they likely speak Wu. Wu simply means standard Chinese as there are many different dialects of ...
(e.g., Shina, Khowar, Kohistani); Iranian (e.g., Baluchi, Dari, Pashto, and Wakhi in western parts of Greater Indus Valley); Nuristani in northeastern Afghanistan; Dravidian; Brahui (spoken in Baluchistan and Sindh); and Burushaski (a language isolate) spoken in northernmost Pakistan close ...
of sub-Sa-haran Africa, both for signed and spoken languages, make it difficult to identify any situation as truly “monolingual” (see, for instance, Lüpke and Chambers 2010 and Nyst 2010 on the complexities of linguistic settings in West Africa for spoken and signed languages, respectively)...
Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a wide range of climates and with 3000 years ...
“But if I’m teaching my mother tongue, why learn another language?” you ask somewhat sarcastically. Well, in many countries English is not commonly spoken and you will find yourself literally lost for words when vainly attempting to communicate with locals. Japan, Brazil, China and even Spa...
Hadzane is the language spoken by the Hadzabe of the Lake Eyasi region in north-central Tanzania. Many Hadzabe continue to rely on hunting and gathering for subsistence. Currently a relatively small population [2], the Hadzabe may have descended in situ from among the earliest fully modern ...