We examine how native lexical-tone experience influences identification of novel tone. Cantonese, Thai, Mandarin, and Yoruba listeners identified CV syllables bearing the six phonemic Cantonese tones. Overall tone accuracy scores and tone-error patterns were assessed. Consistent with previous reports, native listeners’ perception reflected effects of ongoing tonal mergers and acoustic similarit...

This paper examines Nigeria. The ratio of the three major tribes to t board ethnic diversity. the Nigerian Stock Exchange and a cross sectional OLS regressio collected from annual reports and through board members background profile searching. The argument that there is a possibility of improving balancing. The main finding board of quoted companies in Nige Allowing for interaction among the et...

This article discusses the concept of God with a focus on translation in Chinese and Yoruba religious contexts. Translating word is essence when comparing concepts god(s). The Christian as Olodumare misrepresents latter. As suggested by Africanists, there should be appropriate translations for God, Olodumare, other African gods. preliminary comparative attempt, this presents case introduction t...

The article deals with the features of linguistic and cultural picture world representation on example Nigerian screenplays. authors research analyze cinematographic art which is reflection Nigeria national world, that subject to dominant influence British English language influence. In course work, key characteristics screenplays are revealed, viz. phenomenon called creolization forced adaptat...

Rooth & Partee (1982) and Rooth (1985) have shown that the English-specific rule-by-rule system of PTQ can be factores out into function application plus two transformations for resolving type mismatch (type lifting and variable binding). Building on these insights, this article proposes a universal system for type-driven translation, by adding two more innovations: local type determination for...

SUMMARY Despite a growing interest in a correlation between copy number variations (CNVs) and flanking single nucleotide polymorphisms, few databases provide such information. In particular, most information on CNV available so far was obtained in Caucasian and Yoruba populations, and little is known about CNV in Asian populations. This article presents a database that provides CNV regions tagg...

En este texto se intenta comprender elementos de la cosmología afrocubana, en particular, origen yoruba, a través del análisis algunos patakí (historias/leyendas) que cuentan historia Olokun, deidad las profundidades marinas. Para esto lleva cabo, primer lugar, una comparación entre cómo manifiesta su culto África y Cuba, para luego analizar desde un punto vista fenomenológico los conservan Isl...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bilingual lexicon extraction from Wikipedia With the increased interest of the machine translation, needs of multilingual resources such as comparable corpora and bilingual lexicon has increased. These resources are not available mainly for pair of languages that do not involve English. This...

American subjects matched English antonym pairs with antonym pairs from Thai, Kannada, and Yoruba. For each match they also,indicated their degree of feeling of knowing (FOK). Although translation accuracy was in general better than chance, suggesting universal phonetic symbolism, it was found to vary considerably with the subject's FOK ratings: Translations evoking stronger FOK were more likel...