Why will rat's go where rats will not

Experimental evidence indicates that regular plurals are nearly always omitted from English compounds (e.g., rats-eater) while irregular plurals may be included within these structures (e.g., mice-chaser). This phenomenon is considered to be good evidence to support the dual mechanism model of morphological processing (Pinker & Prince, 1992). However, evidence from neural net modelling has shown that a single route associative memory based account might provide an equally, if not more, valid explanation of the compounding phenomenon

Plural morphology in compounding is not good evidence to support the dual mechanism model

The compounding phenomena is considered to be good evidence to support the dual mechanism model of morphological processing (Pinker & Prince, 1992). However evidence from initial neural net modeling has shown that a single route associative memory based account might provide an equally, if not more valid explanation of the treatment of plurals in compounds. Further neural net modeling and empirical work is proposed to test this single route accoun

Critical Perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong\u27o by G. D. Killam

Acknowledging the vast and continuing realignments of power and long overdue reassessments of the cultures of the third world, the editors of the Critical Perspectives series propose, through a projected thirty-six critical monographs, to provide Euro-American audiences with the documents and polemics which reflect the reality of these realignments and reassessments. The thirteenth volume to appear in the series, Critical Perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong\u27 o, is one such document, comprising twenty-four essays by and about Ngugi, East Africa\u27s foremost novelist and social critic (see WLT 59:1, pp. 26-30). Divided into six sections, the volume contains interviews with Ngugi and general critical articles, including his own well-known essay, Literature and Society, as well as various critical and his­torical commentaries on and analyses of his four major novels-Weep Not, Child (1964), The River Between (1965), A Grain of Wheat (1967), and Petals of Blood (1977; see WLT 52:4, p. 681)-and his first book of nonfiction, Homecoming (1972)

Art and Ideology in the African Novel: A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing by Emmanuel Ngara

At a time when African writers and critics are deliberately engaged in a search for a matrix within which African literary esthetics may be defined and formulated, Emmanuel Ngara\u27s singular study of the influence of Marx- ism on African writing is a welcome contribution to the critical canons of the modern African novel. Undoubtedly, this search for a matrix calls for a constant definition of the role not only of art but also of the artist in society. On a continent still struggling to liberate itself from the impact of imperialism and Eurocentrism, it is small wonder that social- ism and Marxism have affected the political, economic, and cultural life of a significant number of independent African countries

Tribaliks: Contemporary Congolese Stories by Henri Lopes, Andrea Leskes

The primary aim of every translation is to make the original accessible to a wider audience. This is particularly true of translations of literary works written in African and European languages (French and Portuguese)

The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar by Syl Cheney-Coker

A reenactment of the Edenic plunder. The setting? Anglophone Anywhere, West Africa. The time? Pre- colonial, colonial, and postcolonial period. The action? The brigandage and plunder of Africa, the old yet new drama of the psychological and political effects of duplicity, and the near-genocidal tendency inherent in the lack of communal cohesiveness. What follows is all too familiar

Reviewed Work: The Housemaid by Amma Darko

A relative newcomer to the Ghanaian fiction-writing scene, Amma Darko is the author of a 1991 novel published in German and then issued in 1995 in its original English as Beyond the Horizon (see WLT 72:2, p.468)

Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature by Carole Boyce Davies, Anne Adams Graves

Prior to the publication of Lloyd Brown\u27s Women Writers in Black Africa (1981), Kenneth Little\u27s Sociology of Urban Women\u27s Image in African Literature (1980; see WLT 55:3, p.518), and Davies and Grave\u27s Ngambika (1986), African feminist criticism existed merely in the form of occasional articles on or interviews with African women writers

Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire

A luta continua, the slogan for the revolution in much of southern Africa, is a befitting theme for Nozipo Maraire\u27s mother-to-daughter clarion call to remember in order to know and be, for it is in knowing what makes one that one then knows how to be how to absorb multiple frames of reality. Thus the essence of a mother\u27s legacy to her daughter as she enters a new world, leaving her native Zimbabwe to study at Harvard, in the USA

Fafa by Ebou Dibba

With the coming if age of African literature, a new generation of African writers are accessing publishing avenues such as the Macmillan Publishing Company\u27s M series