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Kugler, Frank; Genzel, Susanne – Language and Speech, 2012
This article presents data from three production experiments investigating the prosodic means of encoding information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put target words either in wide, informational, or…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Linguistic Theory
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Berry, Jack; Kotei, Nii Amon – 1969
This course in Ga was designed for use by a teacher who is a professional linguist, perhaps with the assistance of a native speaker of Ga. In preparing the course, the authors had in mind that Ga has not yet been accorded the detailed description and analysis that some other Ghanian languages have received. This is especially true in matters of…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Ga, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Allan, Edward Jay – 1973
A detailed grammar of Buem, one of the Togo-Remnant Languages spoken in Ghana's Volta region, describes the major structures and many minor structures occurring in informal and semi-formal speech. The phonetics and much of the phonology are described in taxonomic terms, and the vowel harmony system, syntax, and morphology are described in a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Developing Nations, Dialects