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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"isiXhosa"”.
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Spatial languages in IsiXhosa
… investigates some aspects of spatial language of isiXhosa. It identifies the elements of isiXhosa used in the spatial domain and analyses their use and distribution across the language. Six isiXhosa-speaking language consultants were interviewed, all males between the ages of eighteen and …
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Aspects of IsiXhosa phrasal phonology
This thesis examines the prosodic phenomena of IsiXhosa by employing features of both the Theory of the Prosodic Hierarchy and the Theory of Domains. Taken as a given that the application of phonological processes is determined by well-defined linguistic units, it is argued here that post-lexical …
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An evaluation of group differences and items bias, across rural isiXhosa learners and urban isiXhosa learners, of the isiXhosa version of the Woodcock Muñoz Language Survey (WMLS)
… on the results of such tests.Results of an isiXhosa version of the Woodcock Muñoz Language Survey (WMLS),which is a test used to measure isiXhosa learners’ language proficiency, show significant mean score differences on the test scores across rural and urban firstlanguage speakers of …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… recognises 11 official languages, of which isiXhosa is one. IsiXhosa belongs to the Nguni language family which also comprises of isiZulu, isiNdebele, and siSwati. IsiXhosa is mostly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. Those that regard isiXhosa as their home language (HL) are …
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An analysis of loanwords in selected isiXhosa texts
… into their occurrence and significance in isiXhosa. Previous research on isiXhosa borrowed words concentrates on contemporary speech, but this study focuses on written texts, drawing on sources from the 1800s to the present time. The words in this corpus are analysed in terms of their …
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A comparison of mobile search interfaces for isiXhosa speakers
… to languages such as English, particularly the isiXhosa language. However, due to the increase in use of mobile phones in developing countries, these interfaces can now be adapted to languages in these settings to support information access on the Web. This study proposes mobile search …
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Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs
… text. In pursuance of generating weather text in isiXhosa and isiZulu - we restricted our text to only verbs in order to ensure a manageable scope. In particular, we have developed a corpus of weather sentences in order to determine verb features. We then created context free verbal grammar rules …
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An examination of how loanwords in a corpus of spoken and written contemporary isiXhosa are incorporated into the noun class system of isiXhosa
… adoption of new lifestyles. Whereas in the past isiXhosa, a Nguni language spoken in South Africa, borrowed words from both English and Afrikaans, contemporary speakers rely more on the English lexicon, with some previous adoptions from Afrikaans being replaced by those from English. This study …
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Building Speech-Driven Assessment Tools for Afrikaans and isiXhosa Children
… speech-driven assessment tools for Afrikaans and isiXhosa. This thesis makes four contributions. First, we develop Mamela, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that we optimise for child speech for these lowresource languages. Second, we present an automated pipeline for language sample …
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Properties of the Albama parenting questionnaire in isiXhosa speaking sample
… is very limited literature on parenting among isiXhosa-speaking people and other South Africa ethnic populations. lsiXhosa-speaking parents/guardians, who have at least one child between six and eighteen years old and who live around the Cape Town metropole, were chosen as the focus of the …
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Foundations for reusable and maintainable surface realisers for isiXhosa and isiZulu
… and/or well-documented grammars. IsiZulu and isiXhosa, two of the largest South African languages by first language speakers, have not received a lot of attention in the field despite the potential impact of NLG systems for their speakers. The existing NLG systems created for these languages …
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Using clickers in an isiXhosa Communication Course: A case study on implementation of Interactive Student Response Systems (clickers) for learning isiXhosa as an Additional Language in Higher Education clinical settings
… Medicine and Health Sciences (SUFMHS) offers an isiXhosa Clinical Communication (XCC) course as part of some undergraduate courses. This study explores the use of clickers, a student response system (SRS). The study aims to answer the following research questions: How do students engage with the …
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The portrayal of women in selected isixhosa creative works: implications for social justice
… focuses on the portrayal of women in selected isiXhosa creative works and how it relates to social justice. More specifically, this study looks at gender inequality as shown in the way that women are reflected in literature. It appears that it is not only male characters who oppress female …
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The alignment between curriculum objectives and assessment of IsiXhosa at Grade 12 level
… at grade 12 level, with a particular focus on isiXhosa language as a Home language. This study aims to investigate the alignment between curriculum objectives and assessment through an interrogation of the curriculum aims and assessment tools.
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A critical analysis of three selected themes in the isixhosa literary text: ngenxa yesithembiso
… locating pertinent themes from a selected isiXhosa text titled Ngenxa Yesithembiso. In so doing, themes of corruption and money laundering, drug abuse and Gender- Based Violence (GBV) are the points of departure for this study. The process that is followed rests on the fact that South …
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Automatic assessment and feature-based characterisation of oral narratives for Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
… stronger narrative skills in Afrikaans and isiXhosa. Third, in collaboration with Retief Louw, we deploy and evaluate our system through a mobile application, Auto MAIN. We collect feedback from 20 adult participants, including qualified speech-language and hearing therapists and speech …
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Die rol van minderheidstaalmedia in taalbeplanningprosesse met verwysing na isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi en Setswana
… en uitbreiding van onder andere isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi en Setswana, laat tradisionele taalbeplanningsprosesse ʼn leemte. Tradisionele taalbeplanningsprosesse, die bo-na-onder-benadering, behels taalbeplanningsituasies waar mense met mag en gesag taalverwante besluite vir groepe maak; …
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Isixhosa interpretations of the Nongqawuse saga: oral narratives and theatrical performances of the Nongqawuse story
… and linguistic interpretations (in English and isiXhosa) of the Nongqawuse prophecy and the cattle-killing of 1856-1857. By examining a range of historical, cultural and anthropological sources, the study foregrounds traditional African theatre elements as well as language as being important to …
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Emotions and Multilingualism in L1 isiXhosa speakers: Measuring emotional resonance reduction using the RER-LX scale
… in this domain of research, specifically L1 isiXhosa – LX English speakers residing in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The study is quantitative in nature, making use of a language background questionnaire, which is used to collect sociodemographic information about the …
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Towards the Development of an IsiXhosa Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
In this thesis, I draw on experiences of the isiXhosa segment of the pre-pilot research phase and first rural, toddler pilot for the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) into Southern African languages. 1 The adaptation stems from the growing dissatisfaction …
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