Browsing by Author "Barbour, Julie"
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Function of preverbal pë- in the language variety of Tepërav (Espiegle Bay)
(2023)The language variety of Tepërav (Espiegle Bay, Malekula Island) has a preverbal morpheme pë- (also pe- and po-), which is positioned between the subject index and the verb root. This morpheme was originally classified as ... -
A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change. The bilabial trills of Vanuatu’s Malekula Island
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2023-02-07)This paper demonstrates that unexpected sound changes are best explained by an approach that accounts for different motivations: phonetic, structural and social. Here, we focus on a multifaceted investigation of the ... -
Patterns of Continuous & Discontinuous Quantification in the Oceanic languages: A study of the languages of Malekula
(University of Waikato, 2023)In this presentation, Paperno and Keenan's (2017) study on universal quantifiers in a sample of world languages is discussed. The research reveals that all the languages examined have at least one universal quantifier ... -
Picturebooks as a bridge to cultural autoethnographies
(2022-11-17)Research on the use of picturebooks with tertiary students has explored several aspects of the ways in which they can be used to support preservice teachers’ understanding of children’s literacy (Hoffman, 2021), their ... -
Teachers’ understandings of the role of translation in vernacular language maintenance in Malekula: some early thoughts
(Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)Existing research concerning literacy in the Pacific indicates three key considerations: (1) Traditional print literacy levels are low (Toumu’a 2016), (2) the development of culturally and linguistically relevant quality ...
