Ramona Kunene Nicolas

Language acquisition in Bantu languages

Ramona Kunene Nicolas

Abstract The resurgence of study in Bantu languages from a cognitive perspective has brought interesting insights to universal language trends as well as language-specific knowledge. This chapter presents contemporary research on the acquisition of Bantu languages belonging to the South Eastern group …

The Discursive Strategies in the Spoken Narratives of Multilingual Sepitori and Sesotho Speakers

Ramona Kunene Nicolas, Nonhlanhla Ntuli

In linguistically diverse and multilingual South African communities, it is common to use non-standard language varieties (NSLVs), often called mixed languages, as lingua franca. These NSLVs are primarily spoken in black townships throughout South Africa. Previous studies show that the discursive production …

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Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Paulina Aravena-Bravo, Alejandrina Cristià, Rowena Garcia, Hiromasa Kotera et autres

With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we …

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The categorisation of questions in the assessment of language subjects for multilingual learners in South African primary schools

Nonhlanhla Ntuli, Ramona Kunene Nicolas

This study examines the structure and cognitive demands of questions found in Grade 5 learners’ English first additional language (FAL) and isiZulu home language (HL) subject workbooks. Using document analysis as the qualitative method, the present study provides an analysis of different …

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Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Paulina Aravena-Bravo, Alejandrina Cristià, Rowena Garcia, Hiromasa Kotera et autres

A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% of the 7,000+ languages of the world are represented. With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to this literature, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ …

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Preliminary Data on Representational Gesture in Romance and Bantu Languages Using Ping

Laura Sparaci, Heather Brookes, Olga Capirci, Ramona Kunene Nicolas et autres

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Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives

Jean-Marc Colletta, Ramona Kunene Nicolas, Michèle Guidetti

Abstract This chapter reports on a cross-linguistic developmental study comparing speech and gesture produced in narratives by adults and children speaking either French (a non-pro-drop Romance language) or Zulu (a pro-drop Bantu language). We asked 72 participants (French: 12 adults and 24 …

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Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives

Ramona Kunene Nicolas

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A cross-linguistic study of the development of gesture and speech in Zulu and French oral narratives

Ramona Kunene Nicolas, Michèle Guidetti

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Editorial to the South African Journal of Communication Disorders special issue

Heila Jordaan, Ramona Kunene Nicolas

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Lexical development of noun and predicate comprehension and production in isiZulu

Ramona Kunene Nicolas, Saaliha Ahmed

This study seeks to investigate the development of noun and predicate comprehension and production in isiZulu-speaking children between the ages of 25 and 36 months. It compares lexical comprehension and production in isiZulu, using an Italian developed and validated vocabulary assessment tool: …

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How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution David McNeill (2012)

Ramona Kunene Nicolas

How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution David McNeill (2012)

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