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Peer reviewedBird, Steven – Language and Speech, 1999
Examines the success of phonemic tone-marking for Dschang, a Grassfields Bantu language that uses tone to distinguish lexical items and some grammatical constructions. Participants from a variety of different age groups and educational backgrounds, and having different levels of exposure to the orthography, were tested on location in the Western…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bantu Languages, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
