Normative studies are common in cognitive psychology because they allow us to estimate with more precision the attributes of stimuli used empirical studies. The reported here had four aims. first three aims were obtain estimates for (a) familiarity, concreteness, valence, and arousal a single set words Brazilian Portuguese; (b) wordlikeness (similarity Portuguese) foreign (Swahili); (c) recall ...

Coinage occupies an unusual position in archaeological research. Thriving scholarship on numismatics and monetary history ensures that the objects themselves are well-studied, often seen as an indication of chronology and of stylistic and commercial links. Yet coins might also be analysed as artefacts, and explored as part of the symbolic world of material culture through which archaeologists u...

A sample of Swahili-speaking probands with reading difficulties was identified from a large representative sample of 1,500 school children in the rural areas of Tanzania. Families of these probands (n = 88) were invited to participate in the study. The proband and his/her siblings received a battery of reading-related tasks and performance on these tasks was recorded and treated as phenotypic d...

BACKGROUND The objective was to study whether a Kiswahili version of the OIDP (Oral Impacts on Daily Performance) inventory was valid and reliable for use in a population of older adults in urban and rural areas of Tanzania; and to assess the area specific prevalence, intensity and perceived causes of OIDP. METHOD A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Pwani region and in Dar es Salaam in ...

tal levels. He spends time showing that there are competing global health and economic agendas and programs at work. He describes a shift in focus to new technologies in malaria treatment, as drug resistance moved to the forefront of the agenda; this which has led to the production of novel drugs. Kamat shows that local populations are caught in the middle of a confusing process of “frontline” ...

In this paper we explore the development of the morphosyntax-semantics interface by comparing development in 4 typologically diverse languages: Dutch (a Germanic V2 language), Greek, Italian (a Romance pro-drop language) and Swahili (a Bantu language), with particular emphasis on Swahili, a relatively understudied language whose morphosyntactic structure is particularly relevant to the question...