Student abstracts of selected articles

Vowel Nasality in Sudanese by Ron Trail, abstracted from Robins, R. H. 1957. Vowel Nasality in Sudanese, A Phonological and Grammatical Study. Studies in Linguistic Analysis, J.R. Firth ed. London: The Philological Society, 87-103. Style in Huichol by Nancy Freiberger, abstracted from Grimes, Joseph E. 1955. Style in Huichol Structure, Language 31.31-35. Trique Tone by Richard Bergman, abstracted from Longacre, Robert E. 1952. Five Phonemic Pitch Levels in Trique, Acta Linguistica 7.62-82. Tonme Representation in Mazatec Orthography by Ron Trail, abstracted from Gudschinsky, Sarah. 1959. Toneme Representation in Mazatec Orthography, Word, 15.446-52. Totonac Verb Inflection by Kenneth D. Smith, abstracted from Aschmann, Herman, and Wonderly, William L. 1952. Affixes and Implicit Categories in Totonac Verb Inflections, IJAL 18.130-45. Have as a Function Word by Jean Haggar, abstracted from Fries, Charles C. 1948. Have as a Function Word, Language Learning, 1.3,4-8. Bella Coola Phonology by Margie Griffin, abstracted from Newman, Stanley, 1947. Bella Coola I: Phonology, IJAL 13.129-34. Old High German Umlaut by Elwood Jacobson, abstracted from Twaddell, W. Freeman. 1938. A Note on Old High German Umlaut, Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht, 30:177-81. Reprinted in Readings in Linguistics, edited by Martin Joos, 1958. Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, 85-87. The Phonemic Principle by Nancy Freiberger, abstracted from Swadesh, Morris, 1934. The Phonemic Principle, Language 10.117-29. Reprinted in Readings in Linguistics, edited by Martin Joos. 1958. Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, 1957, 32-37. Meaning and Dictionary Making by Nancy Freiberger, abstracted from Nida, Eugene A. 1958. Analysis of Meaning and Dictionary Making, IJAL 24.279-92. Mazateco Whistle Speech by Nancy Freiberger, abstracted from Cowan, George M. 1948. Mazateco Whistle Speech, Language 24.280-86. Voiceless Vowels in Comanche by Bob Beadle, abstracted from Canonge, Elliot D. 1957. Voiceless Vowels in Comanche, IJAL, 23.63-67. Noun Possession in Villa Alta Zapotec by Gwen Young, abstracted from Mary Leal and Otis Leal, 1954. Noun Possession in Villa Alta Zapotec, IJAL 20.215-216. Sound Patterns by Richard Bergman, abstracted from Sapir, Edward. 1925. Sound Patterns in Language. Language, 1.37-51

The Ursinus Weekly, April 28, 1941

Causes of cancer told to pre-meds by Pfahler • Manchester to sub for Wallace May 6 • Besse Howard will speak at forum Wednesday on topic, Spring, 1941 • Sub-frosh to view Ursinus this Saturday • May hop to feature music of Woody Leh • \u27Unity in diversity\u27 will be conference theme on May 7 • The Ursinus weekend travelogue around the circuit • Play \u27Lightnin\u27 centers around Calivada Hotel • Sixteen visit medical centers on excursion to New York • Five attend chemistry conference at Villanova • Powers of God are subject of vespers • Herber is pre-legal prexy • Meistersingers plan spring concert, May 1 • French Club to hear talk on prestige of French tongue • Debaters elect Lownes prexy; mixed team meets Drexel • Kriebel, Hartman to present reviews of Hilton and Brittain • Class of 1940 makes the grade in business and graduate work • IRC elects Byron president; discusses plans for next year • Local draft boards to weigh claims of students for deferment • Baseballers lose to Mules 3-2; trounce Dickinson 12-2 • Irvin paces track squad to victory over Delaware clan by 65-61 score • Netmen blank Lions in season opener • Co-ed net squad defeats Penn and Albright lassies • Zulick and Baberick win as Moravian beats golfers 3-2 • Freshman girls lead race in class softball league • Doc Baker heads old English game at Ursinus • Carter\u27s articles appear in historical dictionary • Hobos and bums to have poverty ball Saturday • Y officers to be inducted in service on Sundayhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1816/thumbnail.jp

Missions, education and conversion in Colonial Africa

This chapter traces the origins and long-term development of African mass education in colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, it addresses the unique role of Christian missions in prompting a genuine schooling revolution and explores the comparative educational expansion across colonies and between genders. While the initial expansion of missions was motivated by a global competition for new church members, the development of African mass education essentially depended on local conditions. It highlights the importance of African agency in the process toward mass education that depended on local demand for formal education and the supply of African teachers who provided the bulk of mission schooling. The chapter also assesses potential pitfalls when those realities are not considered by studies, investigating historical missionary legacies on present-day African education and social mobility

Call to restrict neonicotinoids

On 28 April 2018 the European Parliament voted for a complete and permanent ban on all outdoor uses of the three most commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides. With the partial exception of the state of Ontario, Canada, governments elsewhere have failed to take action. Below is a letter, signed by 232 scientists from around the world, urgently calling for global action by policy makers to address this issue