TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ciaccio, Laura Anna
A1  - Kgolo, Naledi
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphological decomposition in Bantu
BT  - a masked priming study on Setswana prefixation
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - African languages have rarely been the subject of psycholinguistic experimentation. The current study employs a masked visual priming experiment to investigate morphological processing in a Bantu language, Setswana. Our study takes advantage of the rich system of prefixes in Bantu languages, which offers the opportunity of testing morphological priming effects from prefixed inflected words and directly comparing them to priming effects from prefixed derived words on the same targets. We found significant priming effects of similar magnitude for both prefixed inflected and derived word forms, which were clearly dissociable from prime-target relatedness in both meaning and (orthographic) form. These findings provide support for a (possibly universal) mechanism of morphological decomposition applied during early visual word recognition that segments both (prefixed) inflected and derived word forms into their morphological constituents.
KW  - prefixes
KW  - inflection
KW  - affix stripping
KW  - visual word recognition
KW  - African
KW  - languages
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1722847
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 35
IS  - 10
SP  - 1257
EP  - 1271
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hirschfeld, Robert
A1  - Perscheid, Michael
A1  - Haupt, Michael
T1  - Explicit use-case representation in object-oriented programming languages
JF  - ACM SIGPLAN notices
N2  - Use-cases are considered an integral part of most contemporary development processes since they describe a software system's expected behavior from the perspective of its prospective users. However, the presence of and traceability to use-cases is increasingly lost in later more code-centric development activities. Use-cases, being well-encapsulated at the level of requirements descriptions, eventually lead to crosscutting concerns in system design and source code. Tracing which parts of the system contribute to which use-cases is therefore hard and so limits understandability.
 In this paper, we propose an approach to making use-cases first-class entities in both the programming language and the runtime environment. Having use-cases present in the code and the running system will allow developers, maintainers, and operators to easily associate their units of work with what matters to the users. We suggest the combination of use-cases, acceptance tests, and dynamic analysis to automatically associate source code with use-cases. We present UseCasePy, an implementation of our approach to use-case-centered development in Python, and its application to the Django Web framework.
KW  - design
KW  - languages
KW  - use-cases
KW  - separation of concerns
KW  - traceability
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/2168696.2047856
SN  - 0362-1340
VL  - 47
IS  - 2
SP  - 51
EP  - 60
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stenzel, Kristine
A1  - Williams, Nicholas
T1  - Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism
BT  - Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon
JF  - Language & communication : an interdisciplinary journal
N2  - This study examines language ideologies and communicative practices in the multilingual Vaupes region of northwestern Amazonia. Following a comparative overview of the Vaupes as a 'small-scale' language ecology, it discusses claims from existing ethnographic work on the region in light of data from a corpus of video-recordings of sociolinguistic interviews and spontaneous everyday conversations. It shows how a practice-based and interdisciplinary approach combining language documentation methodology and ethnographic, structural linguistic, and interactional perspectives can contribute to understanding of macro and micro aspects of multilingualism, thus contributing to future work on the Vaupes, typologies of small-scale multilingual ecologies, and language contact research.
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Language ideology
KW  - North-west Amazonia
KW  - Tukanoan
KW  - languages
KW  - Language documentation
KW  - Conversation analysis
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.010
SN  - 0271-5309
SN  - 1873-3395
VL  - 80
SP  - 136
EP  - 164
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -