Kofi adu manyah

• PhD
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

This paper studies the literary and linguistic features of some proverbs and riddles in Akan. We assembled data from oral and documented sources, with which we attempt to identify various categories of sounds through linguistic and literary means. Furthermore, we distinguish the intrinsic qualities of sounds in Akan proverbs and riddles. We also id...

Ce travail présente des observations et les résultats des investigations sur la discrimination de deux tons dans la langue twi (ton haut et ton bas) par des sujets français. Les résultats montrent que les schémas de réponse des sujets diffèrent selon la production du ton dans un contexte isolé ou dans un contexte de phrase porteuse. Les résultats d...

En parcourant cet ouvrage vous irez à la rencontre d'une culture et d'une langue akan/twi très riche (écriture, prononciation, tons, harmonie vocalique, quantité, nasalité) du Ghana. La grammaire présente verbes, adjectives, adverbes, conjonctions, pronoms, possessifs, règles de conjugaison. L’ouvrage aborde les expressions idiomatiques, les situat...

A l’oral comme à l’écrit, le twi, une langue à tons ponctuels, possède un contraste entre deux longueurs dans des mots. La quantité est ainsi employée pour des distinctions lexicales et grammaticales où la voyelle, nasale ou orale, est soit brève soit longue. Cette étude présente les observations et résultats d’une recherche expérimentale sur les v...

Twi has the tongue root vowel harmony system. The vowel system is divided into 2 groups: Advanced and unadvanced Tongue Root (ATR) positions. The aim of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, some phonological aspects of Twi vowel harmony are described. Secondly, preliminary acoustic measurements are carried out to investigate for differences between vow...

This study, part of a programmatic research on the Twi language, deals with data about the acoustic properties of nasal vowels compared to the oral counterparts. Acoustic results of the production of durational and quality contrasts are presented. Evidence from our acoustic data shows a general tendency whereby F2 and F3 of the nasal vowels are low...

Twi is a register tone language spoken in Ghana, West Africa. It has a two tone system (high/low) and the downstep phenomena. In this study, some phonological aspects of Twi tones are described and acoustic measurements are carried out to investigate for differences between vowel quality in the two groups. Two adult Twi male and female speakers pro...

This paper investigates acoustic properties of the Twi nasal vowel counterparts of the oral vowels /i/ vs /�/ and /u/ vs /U/ investigated in a previous study of (+ATR) and (-ATR) vowels. Acoustic measurements are carried out to investigate for differences between vowel quality i n the 2 groups. The evidence from our acoustic data, confir ming resul...

This study deals with data about the acoustic properties of nasal vowels of the Twi language, spoken in Ghana, compared to the oral counterparts. Evidence from our data shows a general tendency whereby F2 and F3 of the nasal vowels are lower than the oral counterparts in both the short and long contexts. Acoustic data also reveal that nasal-oral co...