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Nasality In Kisi, George Tucker Childs

Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper presents the various manifestations of nasality in Kisi, a Mel language belonging to the Southern Branch of (West) Atlantic. In this language, as in many West African languages, nasality plays a prominent role in the language's sound system and grammar. Nasality in Kisi is realized phonetically on both consonants and vowels and phonologically on consonants. There are even cases of 'spontaneous nasalization', situations in which there is no nearby nasal segment to contribute the nasal feature. Nasality may also function in the morphology and is used expressively for emphasis. The findings reported here will be of use to …

Where Do Ideophones Come From?, George Tucker Childs

Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper begins with an analysis of ideophones in Kisi (West Atlantic, Guinea). This examination leads to consideration of the diachrony of ideophones, but because of the lack of data with any real time depth, we are limited to finding clues in the synchronic data. This study looks first at verbs, the class of words which Kisi ideophones resemble most closely. Such is also the case in other African languages, where ideophones can often be analyzed as verbs, as has been done for several Southern Bantu languages. I then demonstrate how Kisi ideophones can be derived from verbs, illustrating several …

History And Background Of The Debate Over Rajneeshpuram, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Women, Welfare, And Work, Norman L. Wyers, Portland State University School Of Social Work

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

There are many popular misconceptions about people on welfare. This study challenges these myths with empirical findings, confirming the results of earlier studies. Four misconceptions contradicted by the findings of this study are as follows:

1. MYTH: She Doesn’t Want to Work
2. MYTH: Welfare Breeds Welfare
3. MYTH: She Rides the Gravy Train
4. MYTH: She Finds Life is Easy on Welfare

"Is Human Understanding Finite?", Peter Brian Medawar

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Soviet Intellectual Dissent In The 1970s", Fruim Yurevich

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Public Evil And Private Responsibility", George Saslow

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Priorities In Teaching Pronunciation", Clifford Holmes Prator

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Address To Faculty And Students Discussing Current Political And Social Issues", George Stanley Mcgovern, Robert Straub, Kay Corbett

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Women's Liberation Movement", Marlene Dixon

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Address To Faculty And Students On The Black American", Nathan Hare

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Recorded in the Old Main (Lincoln Hall) auditorium at Portland State.

"Trends Of American Foreign Policy", Wayne Lyman Morse

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

An address given at the 2nd general session of the Western Meeting of the National Symposium on the United States Foreign Policy, Portland, Oregon, Apr. 10-13, 1969.

"Asia, 1969", Alexander Campbell

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

One of a series of lectures presented in connection with the Joint Reed College-Portland State University Presidential Inauguration.

"Nation-Building In Kenya", Maure Leonard Goldschmidt

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Taped in the Portland Room, Portland State College Center.

"Address To Faculty And Students On Behalf Of Robert F. Kennedy For President", Arthur Meier Schlesinger

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

First 4 min. not recorded.

"Nonviolence: A Tactic And Philosophy For Social Change", David Mcreynolds

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Old Main Auditorium

"Address To Faculty And Students Discussing Current Political And Social Issues", Robert F. Kennedy

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"The Church's Historic Position Toward War", Gabriel Bernhard Fedde

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Berlin: A Tale Of Two Cities", Eleonore Lipschitz

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

The Negro In Portland: A Progress Report 1945-1957, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.