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Direct linkDemuth, Katherine; Machobane, Malillo; Moloi, Francina – Language, 2009
Noun-class prefixes are obligatory in most Bantu languages. However, the Sotho languages (Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi) permit a subset of prefixes to be realized as null at the intersection of "unmarked" phonological, syntactic, and discourse conditions. This raises the question of how and when the licensing of null prefixes is learned. Using…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, African Languages, Morphemes
