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Shona
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TL;DR: The distribution of the feature [high] in Shona verbs is a prototypical example of positional neutralisation accompanied by vowel harmony as mentioned in this paper, where one or more vowels (generally the most marked members of the vowel inventory) may occur distinctively in only a small subset of the structural positions available in the language.
Abstract: The distribution of the feature [high] in Shona verbs is a prototypical example of positional neutralisation accompanied by vowel harmony. In languages which exhibit positional neutralisation of vowel contrasts, one or more vowels (generally, the most marked members of the vowel inventory) may occur distinctively in only a small subset of the structural positions available in the language. Outside of these positions, the marked vowels may surface only if they harmonise with a similar vowel in the privileged position. For example, the mid vowels e and o in Shona verbs are contrastive only in root-initial syllables. These vowels may appear in subsequent syllables only when preceded by a mid vowel in root-initial position. A string of height-harmonic Shona vowels is therefore firmly anchored in the root-initial syllable, as shown in (1):
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TL;DR: In this article, the article etudie les rapports du pentecotisme a la modernite et au progres economique en Afrique au Zimbabwe, and montre comment les Pentecotistes du Zimbabwe ont faconne leur propre version de la prosperite evangelique pour transformer la societe.
Abstract: L'article etudie les rapports du pentecotisme a la modernite et au progres economique en Afrique au Zimbabwe. L'A. montre comment les pentecotistes du Zimbabwe ont faconne leur propre version de la prosperite evangelique pour transformer la societe. Les pentecotistes deviennent autonomes en accomplissant une rupture avec le passe et la tradition impliquant un changement social.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Schmidt as mentioned in this paper argues that women were central to the formation of African peasantries in Rhodesia and argued that women's status declined over the course of the colonial period, and women's labor was intensified in the last ditch attempt to stave off the need for male labor migration.
Abstract: Dr. Schmidt argues that women were central to the formation of African peasantries in Rhodesia. Yet women's status declined over the course of the colonial period. As political mechanisms threatened the survival of peasant households, women's labor was intensified in the last ditch attempt to stave off the need for male labor migration.
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