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Download full textKa, Omar – 1988
A structural analysis provides new evidence concerning the internal structure of the syllable in Wolof, a West African language, through examination of the secret code called Kall, spoken mainly in Senegal's Ceneba area. It is proposed that Kall is better described as involving primarily a reduplication of the prosodic word. The first section…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
