Uainishaji wa Mafumbo ya Wosia wa Babu kwa Wavulana Miongoni mwa Wabukusu wa Kenya.

Dake-wa : Exhaustifying Assertions

Following the structure meaning approach (c.f. [3,4]), I argued in [5] that the prosodic peak of Contrastive-marking creates a partition of the asserted proposition into B (background) and F (Focus). The morphological wa-marking then introduces the Con operator that takes the structured meaning as its argument and yields a conventional implicature. The Contrastive-marked sentence presupposes th...

Western Australia , Perth , WA , Australia

We have recently suggested that numerosity is a primary sensory attribute, and shown that it is strongly susceptible to adaptation. Here we use the Method of Single Stimuli to show that observers can extract a running average of numerosity of a succession of stimuli to use as a standard of comparison for subsequent stimuli. On separate sessions observers judged whether the perceived numerosity ...

Wa Cannabis Cautioning and Mandatory Education System

2 Introduction There is a lot of concern among many specialists within the drug environment that the health and social detriment of applying the law against cannabis users may be as significant as those that flow directly from cannabis use itself. A number of States and Territories have adopted differing legislative and regulatory models incorporating either infringement notices or formal cauti...

Japanese Wa-phrases That Aren't Topics*

The Japanese particle wa is widely considered a marker for topic. This paper presents new evidence that contrary to this general view, wa does not only mark topic, but it also marks items that are simply discourse anaphoric. The evidence comes from the observation that a wa-phrase displays distinct syntactic behaviour depending on whether it is interpreted as a topic or discourse anaphoric. It ...

Genetics: Fankha User and Wa Tson