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Applied anthropology, Social Policy
0751. Dudzai, C. (2018). The value of social sustainability policies to poverty reduction
in Zimbabwe: A social work perspective. African Journal of Social Work, 8(2),
71–77.
The apparent dearth of social sustainability in Zimbabwe is related to poverty.
0752. Gottfried, M.A. (2019). Chronic absenteeism in the classroom context: Effects on
achievement. Urban Education, 54, 3–34.
Students suffer academically from having chronically absent classmates—as

exhibited across both reading and math testing outcomes.
0753. Hauser, M.W. (2017). A political ecology of water and enslavement: Water
ways in eighteenth-century Caribbean plantations. Current Anthropology, 58,
227–256.
A focus on water ways allows us to examine exclusionary forces, such as regu-

lation, markets, violence, and legitimation, at the human scale.
0754. Jakaza, T.N. & Nyoni, C. (2018). Emerging dynamics of substance abuse among
street children in Zimbabwe. A case of Harare Central Business District. African
Journal of Social Work, 8(2), 63–70.
Drug dealers and syndicate leaders are now employing street children to sell
drugs and substances.
0755. Knight-Manuel, M.G., Marciano, J.E., Wilson, M., Jackson, I., . . . , Watson, V.W.M.
(2019). ‘‘It’s all possible’’: Urban educators’ perspectives on creating a culturally relevant,
schoolwide, college-going culture for Black and Latino male students. Urban Education,
54, 35–64.
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We provide recommendations for creating equitable educational opportunities

for Black and Latino males supportive of access to post-secondary education.
0756. Mac Iver, M.A. & Mac Iver, D.J. (2019). ‘‘STEMming’’ the swell of absenteeism in
the middle years: Impacts of an urban district summer robotics program. Urban
Education, 54, 65–88.
High-interest hands-on educational activities can help maintain student engage-

ment in school.
0757. Mutale, M. (2018). Challenges and opportunities of Information and

Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Binga District, Zimbabwe. African Journal of
Social Work, 8(2), 55–62.
Rural communities need to have signal boosters installed to advance their devel-
opment and technology industries, and to provide access to networks.
0758. Rodd, R. (2018). It’s all you! Australian ayahuasca drinking, spiritual development,
and immunitary individualism. Critique of Anthropology, 38, 325–345.
Neo-shamanic ayahuasca culture may be an escape from and reproduction of the

culture of narcissism associated with the malaise of modernity.
Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)

0759. Anderson, S.M. (2018). Letting the mask slip: The shameless fame of Sierra
Leone’s Gongoli. Africa, 88, 718–743.
Grotesque and vulgar, the masked character Gongoli upends the codes of
Mende decorum in his madcap pursuit of laughs.
0760. Bouchard, V. (2018). Audiovisual production in West Africa: The integration of new
technical and aesthetic forms to the classical film studies canon. Africa Today, 65(1),
2–20.
I detail how aesthetic evolution is an issue for African film studies and audio-
visual institutions in West Africa.
0761. Coombes, A.E. (2019). Positive living: Visual activism and art in HIV/AIDS rights
campaigns. Journal of Southern African Studies, 45, 143–174.
I examine the strategies deployed by artists engaged in raising awareness and

support from the international community about AIDS.
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0762. Fendler, U. (2018). Superheroes for Africa? Africa Today, 65(1), 86–105.
The figure of the African superhero can be a model of creativity for local
solutions.
0763. Gagliardi, S.E. (2018). Seeing the unseeing audience: Women and West African
power association masquerades. Africa, 88, 744–767.
My focus on women as members of unseeing audiences also reveals women’s

varied contributions to organizations and arts.
0764. Gamage, A. (2019). The Kaludayi-Theragatha as transmitted in the Pali

commentaries. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 82,
55–83.
While the Theragatha contains only ten verses attributed to the Elder Kaludayi,
the Pali commentaries ascribe two more sets of verses to him.
0765. Gehrmann, S. (2018). Remediating romance: Forms and functions of

new media in contemporary love stories from Togo and South Africa. Africa Today,
65(1), 64–84.
I show that remediation allows for creative, but not necessarily subversive, genre
rewriting.
0766. Homann, L. (2018). Controversy and human agency in ‘portrait masks’ from the
studio of André Sanou. Africa, 88, 768–801.
Individuals can unsettle or disrupt accepted mask practice, even as they broaden
its scope and invigorate audiences.
0767. Mills, E. (2019). Art, vulnerability and HIV in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal
of Southern African Studies, 45, 175–195.
I discuss three art forms that signify HIV-positive women’s vulnerability: pho-
tography, body-mapping, and papier-mâché art.
0768. Ndaliko, C.R. (2019). What remains: Reviving Lumumba’s legacy in music video.
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 31, 53–70.
I frame Agizo ya Lumumba as socially engaged art that foregrounds history and
social memory as dialogic and fundamental to discourses on human rights in
conflict zones.
0769. Olivier, B. (2018). Colour in variegated contexts: The Wachowskis’ Sense8.

South African Journal of Art History 33, 13–26.
Sensates are individuals who have a spatiotemporal limit-surpassing connection

with one another.
0770. Oppermann, J. (2018). Rediscovering the artisan techniques and intricacies of

water gilding. South African Journal of Art History 33, 27–40.
I discuss gold as a color, the history of gilding, different types of gilding, and the
skills and expertise of the gilder.
0771. Reed, D.B. (2018). Ambiguous agency: Dan/Mau stilt mask spirit performance as
ontology in Côte d’Ivoire and the US. Africa, 88, 802–823.
I discuss the ways in which mask spirit performers maneuver in the interstices of
display and disguise.
0772. Ritzer, I. (2018). The relational politics of media culture in the age of Post–Third
Cinema. Africa Today, 65(1), 22–41.
I consider essentialist thought and moving toward a universal understanding of

cinematography in the age of global media culture.
0773. Siegert, N. (2018). Jesus, Che, Luaty: On the relationship between a digital picture
and an iconic image in political iconography in Angola. Africa Today, 65(1), 42–62.
I deconstruct the transmutation of a photograph into a popular icon.
0774. Starck-Adler, A. (2019). Andries Botha et « human elephant »: sculpture et

écologie. Journal of the African Literature Association, 13, 15–30.
The South African sculptor Andries Botha is known for his installations, for his
bronzes of historical personalities.
0775. Steyn, G. (2018). Architecture and identity: Colours, textures and materials that
speak of South Africa. South African Journal of Art History 33, 41–65.
Colors, textures and materials can, as intrinsic aspects of regionalism, signal

Africanism in the broadest geographic terms.
0776. Venis, J. (2018). The Olympics of the art world: Allora and Calzadilla’s Track and
Field. South African Journal of Art History 33, 112–127.
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Artists have always evaluated the works of other artists through the lens of their
own practice.
0777. Winn, M.T. (2019). Still writing in rhythm: Youth poets at work. Urban
Education, 54, 89–125.
Power writing continues to influence youth poets’ views on education as they

continue their lives as college students, workers, parents, and partners.
0778. Zuiddam, B. (2018). Biblical colour symbolism and interpretation of Christian art.
South African Journal of Art History 33, 66–89.
I argue for the reception of color as a creative manifestation, with the medium
(material) that constitutes the color as part of the message.
Cultural Ecology
0779. Baker, C.M., Bode, M., Dexter, N., Lindenmayer, D.B., . . . , McDonald-Madden, E.
(2019). A novel approach to assessing the ecosystem-wide impacts of reintroductions.
Ecological Applications, 29, e01811.
The eastern quoll introduction increased the likelihood of Eastern Bristlebird decline.
0780. Castro, J.A.G. & De Robles, S.L.R. (2019). Climate change and flood risk:
Vulnerability assessment in an urban poor community in Mexico. Environment and
Urbanization, 31, 75–92.
We state the need to incorporate local urban challenges into the debate on cli-
mate change, particularly those affecting informal settlements.
0781. Collins, L., Bradstock, R., Ximenes, F., Horsey, B., . . . , Penman, T. (2019).
Aboveground forest carbon shows different responses to fire frequency in harvested and
unharvested forests. Ecological Applications, 29, e01815.
Consideration of historic harvesting will be important in understanding the

effect of prescribed burning programs on forest carbon budgets.
0782. Dettmann, G.T. & MacFarlane, D.W. (2019). Trans-species predictors of tree leaf
mass. Ecological Applications, 29, e01817.
Variables describing tree size, life-history traits, and competitive environment

allowed us to develop a generalized leaf mass model applicable to a diverse set
of species.
0783. Geldin, S. (2019). Advancing urban adaptation where it counts: Reshaping unequal
knowledge and resource diffusion in networked Indonesian cities. Environment and
I inform the governance, resource allocation, and operational goals of trans-

national municipal networks stakeholders to advance distributive climate justice.
0784. Giakoumi, S., Pey, A., Di Franco, A., Francour, P., . . . , Guidetti, P. (2019). Exploring
the relationships between marine protected areas and invasive fish in the world’s most
invaded sea. Ecological Applications, 29, e01809.
Complementary management actions, such as species-targeted removals,

should be taken in marine protected areas to effectively control invasive fish
populations.
0785. Hardoy, J., Gencer, E., & Winograd, M. (2019). Participatory planning for climate
resilient and inclusive urban development in Dosquebradas, Santa Ana and Santa Tomé.
Environment and Urbanization, 31, 33–52.
In each city, this process provided rich, context-specific details to identify stra-
tegies and plan projects with the buy-in of city government and other key actors.
0786. Mažeika, S., Sullivan, P., Hossler, K., & Meyer, L.A. (2019). Artificial lighting at
night alters aquatic-riparian invertebrate food webs. Ecological Applications, 29,
e01821.
Artificial lighting at night can alter the flows of energy between aquatic and
terrestrial systems, representing an environmental perturbation crossing ecosys-
tem boundaries.
0787. Muneret, L., Auriol, A., Thiéry, D., & Rusch, A. (2019). Organic farming at local
and landscape scales fosters biological pest control in vineyards. Ecological
Applications, 29, e01818.
Pesticide use tended to reduce biological control potential, while crop product-
ivity was associated with contrasting biological control responses.
0788. Powers, S.M. & Hampton, S.E. (2019). Open science, reproducibility, and
transparency in ecology. Ecological Applications, 29, e01822.
We highlight many of the unique challenges for ecology along with practical
guidelines for reproducibility and transparency.
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0789. Pregitzer, C.C., Charlop-Powers, S., Bibbo, S., Forgione, H.M., . . . , Bradford, M.A.
(2019). A city-scale assessment reveals that native forest types and overstory species
dominate New York City forests. Ecological Applications, 29, e01819.
Stand structure in urban forest stands is more similar to rural forests in New
York State than to stand structure reported for prior assessments of the urban
canopy.
0790. Rojas, E. (2019). ‘‘No time to waste’’ in applying the lessons from Latin America’s
50 years of housing policies. Environment and Urbanization, 31, 177–192.
The United Nations’ New Urban Agenda calls for housing to play a prominent
role in achieving more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities.
0791. Trundle, A., Barth, B., & Mcevoy, D. (2019). Leveraging endogenous climate
resilience: urban adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States. Environment and
Cross-scale integration with climate resilience planning processes is used to

examine points of conflict between stakeholder interpretations of core functions.
0792. Williams, D.S., Costa, M.M., Sutherland, C., Celliers, L., & Scheffran, J. (2019).
Vulnerability of informal settlements in the context of rapid urbanization and climate
change. Environment and Urbanization, 31, 157–176.
We contribute to broader theoretical knowledge on urban vulnerability and

resilience in the face of climate change and rapid urbanization.
0793. Wolz, K.J. & DeLucia, E.H. (2019). Black walnut alley cropping is economically
competitive with row crops in the Midwest USA. Ecological Applications, 29,
e01829.
Major opportunities exist for landowners and investors to increase profitability

by investing in plantation forestry and alley cropping on both ‘‘marginal’’ and
productive maize–soybean rotation land.
Economics (Theory, technology, political economy,

colonialism, development)
0794. Agbebi, M. (2019). Exploring the human capital development dimensions of
Chinese investments in Africa: Opportunities, implications and directions for further
research. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54, 189–210.
The human capital development impact of Chinese economic engagement will

vary across countries and sectors of the African economy.
0795. Dankwah, K.O. & Valenta, M. (2019). Chinese entrepreneurial migrants in Ghana:
Socioeconomic impacts and Ghanaian trader attitudes. The Journal of Modern
African Studies, 57, 1–29.
We add to growing studies on contemporary Chinese emigrations and accom-

panying impacts in host communities.
0796. Desportes, I., Mandefro, H., & Hilhorst, D. (2019). The humanitarian theatre:
Drought response during Ethiopia’s low-intensity conflict of 2016. The Journal of
Modern African Studies, 57, 31–59.
A collective conversation is necessary on where to draw the line between respect

for governments’ sovereignty and the intrusion of humanitarian principles.
0797. Grysole, A. (2018). Private school investments and inequalities: Negotiating the
future in transnational Dakar. Africa, 88, 663–682.
International migration has made global inequalities apparent within and

between Senegalese families.
0798. Liouaeddine, M., Elatrachi, M., & Karam, E. (2018). The analysis of the efficiency
of primary schools in Morocco: Modelling using TIMSS database (2011). The Journal
of North African Studies, 23, 624–647.
The socio-economic environment of the student has a significant impact on the

efficiency of primary schools in Morocco.
0799. Schiffauer, L. (2018). Let’s get rich: Multilevel marketing and the moral economy
in Siberia. Critique of Anthropology, 38, 285–302.
Feelings of obligation, expectations of support and intimate pressure are crucial

for pushing people towards such economic activity.
0800. Shore, C. & Wright, S. (2018). How the Big 4 got big: Audit culture and the
metamorphosis of international accountancy firms. Critique of Anthropology, 38,
303–324.
The post-1990s shift from auditing to advisory services leads these companies to
tread an ever-finer line between entrepreneurship and fraud.
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0801. So, B.K.L. & So, S. (2016). Entrepreneurship in the textbook business in modern
East Asia: Kinkōdō of Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press of early twentieth-century
China. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 547–569.
Although the use of the model could imply global business convergence, its
process was shaped by entrepreneurs who negotiated the new Western model.
0802. Toivanen, A.-L. (2019). Zombified mobilities: Clandestine Afroeuropean journeys in

J. R. Essomba’s Le paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore. Journal of
African Cultural Studies, 31, 120–134.
The roots of zombified mobilities lie in the travellers’ precarious lives in their
failed postcolonial states.
Ethnohistory
0803. Bonnecase, V. (2018). When numbers represented poverty: The changing meaning
of the food ration in French Colonial Africa. The Journal of African History, 59,
463–481.
I focus on efforts to quantify daily food intake by tracing the different meanings
assigned to nutrition over time.
0804. Castryck, G. (2019). Bordering the lake: Transcending spatial orders in

Kigoma-Ujiji. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52,
109–132.
In Kigoma in 2012, almost every TV set in public places screened the parlia-
mentary debates during the daytime and the European Championship football
in the evening.
0805. Castryck, G. (2019). The bounds of Berlin’s Africa: Space-making and multiple
territorialities in East and Central Africa. The International Journal of African
Historical Studies, 52, 1–10.
A focus on space-making, spatial practices, and imaginations of space provides a

fruitful entry point allowing us to consider different actor groups, power asym-
metries, and conflicts.
0806. De Roo, B. (2019). Navigating different worlds: Colonialism in the Mbomu Basin
and the rise and demise of the Djabir-Clan (1875–1932). The International Journal
of African Historical Studies, 52, 31–58.
I examine the interaction between the local elite—more specifically the

Djabir-clan—and the merchants and agents of empire that sought to control
the people.
0807. Dingley, Z. (2018). Rumor and history revisited: ‘Mumiani’ in coastal Kenya, 1945.
The Journal of African History, 59, 381–398.
The stories told about them encode a history of concerns about predatory
patrons.
0808. Dooling, W. (2018). Poverty and respectability in early twentieth-century Cape

Town. The Journal of African History, 59, 411–435.
The state and the dominant bourgeoisie put their faith in the black elite as the
standard-bearers of respectability.
0809. El Kadoussi, A. (2018). Four phases in the history of the Moroccan private press.
The Journal of North African Studies, 23, 675–693.
I consider six indicators in the private press: political environment, media envir-
onment, principal titles, editorial features, ratings, and censorship.
0810. Guyer, J.I. (2018). Pauper, percentile, precarity: Analytics for poverty studies in
Africa. The Journal of African History, 59, 437–448.
Percentile is a economic-demographic concept, implying class difference, indexed

to measurable or imputed monetary income.
0811. Jerven, M. (2018). The history of African poverty by numbers: Evidence and
vantage points. The Journal of African History, 59, 449–461.
There is a disconnect between the theoretical and historical underpinnings of

how academics understand and define poverty in Africa.
0812. Khanakwa, P. (2018). Reinventing Imbalu and forcible circumcision: Gisu political
identity and the fight for Mbale in late Colonial Uganda. The Journal of African
History, 59, 357–379.
Ethnic competition played a major role in late-colonial mobilizations.
0813. Mancini-Lander, D.J. (2019). Subversive skylines: Local history and the rise of the
Sayyids in Mongol Yazd. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
82, 1–24.
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I explore narrative strategies by which Yazdı authors, writing after the Mongol
period, commemorated the sayyids’ emergence.
0814. Maxwell, D. (2019). Remaking boundaries of belonging: Protestant missionaries

and African Christians in Katanga, Belgian Congo. The International Journal of
African Historical Studies, 52, 59–80.
Luba Katanga ethnicity emerged out of the establishment of territorial and

tribal frontiers under Leopoldian and Belgian colonialism.
0815. Médard, H. & Kidari, I. (2019). The Kagera River and the making of a contested
boundary: Territorial legacies and colonial demarcations in Buganda (19th–20th
centuries). The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 11–30.
We explain how similar rather than opposed conceptions of territory and bound-
ary led to the unanticipated stability of a segment of the southern border of
Uganda.
0816. Stephens, R. (2018). Poverty’s pasts: A case for longue durée studies. The
Journal of African History, 59, 399–409.
Colonial rule changed the experience and reality of poverty for people across the
continent.
0817. von Oppen, A. (2019). Moving along, moving across, moving in time: Linear
geographies, translocal practices, and the making of the ‘‘Barotse Boundary,’’ ca. 1890 to
1925. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 81–108.
The making of colonial borders in Africa from around 1880 often took decades,
and more actors were involved than just European rival powers.
Kinship (Family organization, marriage)

0818. Belmontes, K.C. (2018). When family gets in the way of recovery: Motivational
interviewing with families. The Family Journal, 26, 99–104.
Motivational interviewing principles and practices can be applied to families and

other social systems that are ambivalent to changing problematic behaviors.
0819. Hopkins, N.S. (2018). Family rites in Testour, Tunisia, in the 1970s. The Journal
of North African Studies, 23, 694–715.
The visits involve prayer, commensality, and recreation.

0820. Jannati, E. & Allen, S. (2018). Parental perspectives on parent–child conflict and
acculturation in Iranian immigrants in California. The Family Journal, 26, 110–118.
We found higher parent–child conflict levels among lower income families, sug-
gesting a need for support from schools, counselors, or other institutions.
0821. Pandya, S.P. (2019). Meditation to improve concentration among children with
auditory processing disorder. Journal of Disability & Religion, 23, 20–36.
The intervention promotes the use of meditation to improve concentration of the

target group.
0822. Scarborough, J. (2018). Family-based therapy for pediatric anorexia nervosa:

Highlighting the implementation challenges. The Family Journal, 26, 90–98.
Challenges are barriers to clinical supervision, inadequate treatment options,

time and finances, relationships, and parental adjustment.
0823. Wirick, D.M. & Teufel-Prida, L.A. (2018). Chronic lower back pain: Cognitive
behavioral therapy with family therapy interventions. The Family Journal, 26, 86–89.
Cognitive behavioral therapy and family interventions contribute to recovery of

functions, meaningful roles, and health in relationships.
0824. Wofford, J.R. & Ohrt, J.H. (2018). An integrated approach to counseling children
diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, and chronic stressors. The Family Journal, 26, 105–109.
We present an assimilative integrated approach using behavioral therapy as the

foundational theory, supplemented by techniques from play therapy and struc-
tural family therapy.
0825. Yount-André, C. (2018). Gifts, trips and Facebook families: Children and the
semiotics of kinship in transnational Senegal. Africa, 88, 683–701.
I demonstrate how Senegalese selectively reinforce links with certain family

members to favorably position themselves in socio-economic networks of trans-
national kin.
Medical anthropology
0826. Aktürk, S., Büyükavcı, R., & Aktürk, U. (2019). Relationship between
musculoskeletal disorders and physical inactivity in adolescents. Journal of Public
Health, 27, 49–56.
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Physical activity levels should hence be considered when evaluating adolescents

with musculoskeletal disorders.
0827. Alshareef, S.J., Alzahrani, A., & Farahat, F.M. (2019). Lifestyle habits and well-
being among primary health physicians in western Saudi Arabia. Journal of Public
Health, 27, 57–62.
Reported chronic diseases were hyperlipidemia, hypertension, bronchial asthma,

and diabetes.
0828. Arafa, A.E.E, Ewis, A.A.E., Mahran, W.M., Mohamed, A.A.E., & El-Shabrawy, E.M.
(2019). Prevalence and risk factors of refractive errors among preparatory school
students in Beni-Suef, Egypt. Journal of Public Health, 27, 43–47.
Family history and indoor activities are determining risk factors for refractive
errors.
0829. Chauhan, B.G., Chauhan, S., & Chaurasia, H. (2019). Decomposing the gap in
child malnutrition between poor and non-poor in Sierra Leone. Journal of Public
Health, 27, 119–127.
The main contributing factors were place of residence, mother’s education,

media exposure, and institutional delivery.
0830. Chikwaiwa, B.K., Dzingirai, V., Nyikahadzoi, K., & Rusakaniko, S. (2018).
Institutional and personal factors influencing adherence to tuberculosis treatment among
patients in Harare, Zimbabwe. African Journal of Social Work, 8(2), 93–101.
Fear of stigmatization and the possibility of losing employment among

employed patients negatively affects their adherence to treatment.
0831. Freire, K., Coyle, J., & Pope, R. (2019). Exploring cross-generational physical
activity: Who are the gate-keepers? Journal of Public Health, 27, 77–88.
Physical activity health promotion policy and practice should recognize and
promote the roles that both children and parents play.
0832. Kobayashi, E., Abe, C., & Satoh, N. (2019). Patients’ perspectives on generic
substitution among statin users in Japan. Journal of Public Health, 27, 11–19.
Physician-initiated substitution reduces patients’ concerns in switching.

Widening the price difference between brand-name drugs and generic drugs
should be considered.
0833. Levasseur, P. (2019). Implementing a regression discontinuity design to explore the

heterogeneous effects of obesity on labour income: The case of Mexico. Journal of
Public Health, 27, 89–101.
Obesity-related wage penalties are stronger for female than male employees and
higher in service employments, urban areas and the latest survey.
0834. Mitiku, H., Admassu, D., Teklemariam, Z., Weldegebreal, F., & Nigusse, A. (2019).
Nutritional status of school children in eastern Hararghe administrative zone, eastern
Ethiopia. Journal of Public Health, 27, 111–118.
Stunting and thinness were significantly increased in the higher age group.
0835. Nketiah-Amponsah, E., Codjoe, E.A., & Ampaw, S. (2019). HIV/AIDS awareness
and knowledge among Ghanaian women of reproductive age: What are the correlates?
Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54, 267–281.
We need to develop messages that can be delivered via mobile phones, whether
as reminders or ring tones, and therefore enhance health knowledge.
0836. Shapira, B., Schaefer, E., Poperno, A., Hess, Z., . . . , Berkovitz, R. (2019). The
methanol content of illicit alcoholic beverages seized in a low socio-economic area of
Tel-Aviv: Public health impact and policy implications. Journal of Public Health, 27,
37–42.
We identified the sale of alcoholic beverages with high methanol content in the
disadvantaged areas of Tel-Aviv.
0837. Singh, S.K., Sharma, S.K., & Vishwakarma, D. (2019). Tracking the efficacy of the
test and treat model of HIV prevention in India using National Family Health Surveys
(2005–16). Journal of Public Health, 27, 63–76.
The existing disparities in HIV testing and treatment require policy instruments
with an integrated approach.
0838. Warmerdam,L., de Beurs, E., Barendregt, M., & Twisk, J. (2019).

Comparing single-level and multilevel regression analysis for risk adjustment of
treatment outcomes in common mental health disorders. Journal of Public Health,
27, 29–35.
The findings of risk adjustment of mental health outcomes are quite robust for
the use of single-level or multilevel regression analysis.
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0839. Zipp, A. & Eissing, G. (2019). Studies on the influence of breakfast on the mental
performance of school children and adolescents. Journal of Public Health, 27, 103–110.
The test food consumed suggests an important difference in the increase of

mental performance as a function of their composition.
Minorities (Ethnicity, class differentials, sex roles)

0840. Ayobade, D. (2019). ‘We were on top of the world’: Fela Kuti’s Queens and the
poetics of space. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 31, 24–39.
The Afrika Shrine, Fela Kuti’s night club, and Kalakuta Republic were iconic
spaces in the Nigerian postcolonial imagination.
0841. Duignan-Pearson, R. (2019). ‘Before you’re a DJ, you’re a woman’: Navigating

gendered space, society and music as a female DJ in Johannesburg’. Journal of African
Cultural Studies, 31, 7–23.
I scrutinize the changing roles for women in South African music, while inter-
rogating the reasons behind women’s increasing visibility and success as DJs.
0842. Fasan, R. (2018). Alaroye: Political contestation, genres, innovations and audience
in a Yoruba-language newspaper. Africa, 88, 840–862.
Tabloidization has been central to Alaroye’s success, making it a leader whose

example is being closely emulated by other Yoruba-language newspapers.
0843. Gagliardi, S. (2018). Violence against women: The stark reality behind Morocco’s
human rights progress. The Journal of North African Studies, 23, 569–590.
The state’s hagiographic narrative on women’s rights and gender equality is

problematic.
0844. Hatley, S. (2016). Erotic asceticism: The razor’s edge observance (asidharavrata)
and the early history of tantric coital ritual. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
Analysis of the asidharavrata thus sheds light on the early history of tantric
sexual rituals.
0845. Hendriks, T. (2019). Queer(ing) popular culture: Homo-erotic provocations from

Kinshasa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 31, 71–88.
Provocative readings of music, video clips, urban painting and street perform-
ances bring to the fore surprisingly queer complicities within popular culture.
0846. Jabeen, H. (2019). Gendered space and climate resilience in informal settlements
in Khulna City, Bangladesh. Environment and Urbanization, 31, 115–138.
Gendered constraints in both inhabiting and shaping spaces is an underlying

cause of differential climate resilience.
0847. Munyoro, L. (2018). Representations of the struggle for survival of Zimbabwean

women in selected post-2000 fictional narratives. African Journal of Social Work,
8(2), 85–92.
The democratization of the bread winning act through the economic crisis
enabled women to ride on the wave of abject suffering.
0848. Ombagi, E. (2019). Nairobi is a shot of whisky: Queer (Ob) scenes in the city.
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 31, 106–119.
Kenya has become a site of, and frame for, the contradictions of queer livability
on one hand and queer visibility on the other.
Political structure and process, Law

0849. Asante, M. O. (2018). Changing aid and diplomatic relations: New development
actors and Norway in Africa. African Journal of Political Science and
International Relations, 12(7), 110–123.
Norway’s relations to Africa have shifted towards being more interest-driven as

a consequence of the growing China’s engagements.
0850. Asiedu-Acquah, E. (2019). ‘‘We shall be outspoken’’: Student political activism in

post-independence Ghana, c.1957–1966. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54,
169–188.
Student activism established itself as a fulcrum of the country’s

evolving postcolonial political order and a bulwark against governmental
authoritarianism.
0851. Brinkman, I. (2019). Social diary and news production: Authorship and readership
in social media during Kenya’s 2007 elections. Journal of Eastern African Studies,
13, 72–89.
Abstracts 211
The blog posts and comments on Kenyanpundit.com form a narrative diary that
establishes the weblog as processual rather than static.
0852. Brunotti, I. (2019). From baraza to cyberbaraza: Interrogating publics in the

context of the 2015 Zanzibar electoral impasse. Journal of Eastern African Studies,
13, 18–34.
I examine how the cyberbaraza comes into being a public, as part of a multipli-
city of existing public spheres.
0853. Burak, G. (2016). Evidentiary truth claims, imperial registers, and the Ottoman
archive: Contending legal views of archival and record-keeping practices in Ottoman
Greater Syria (seventeenth–nineteenth centuries). Bulletin of the School of Oriental
and African Studies, 79, 233–254.
I contend that the debate about the evidentiary validity of the defters captures
the complex relationship between Ottoman dynastic law and the Hanafi fiqh
discourse.
0854. Dinko, D.H., Yaro, J., & Kusimi, J. (2019). Political ecology and contours of
vulnerability to water insecurity in semiarid north-eastern Ghana. Journal of Asian and
We show the multiple mechanisms and structures that undergird vulnerability of

households to water insecurity in semiarid Ghana.
0855. Gagliardone, I., Stremlau, N., & Aynekulu, G. (2019). A tale of two publics? Online
politics in Ethiopia’s elections. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13, 192–213.
We propose reading the ‘‘digital apathy’’ of 2015 rather as a critique moved

towards the fictitious apparatus for political participation erected in 2015.
0856. Hlongwana, J. (2018). Old habits die hard: Resistensia Nacional Mozambicana
(RENAMO) propensity for military confrontation against its professed embracement of
peaceful conflict resolution, 1976 to 2017. African Journal of Political Science and
RENAMO resorted to war as a tool to gain political concessions from the ruling
FRELIMO government.
0857. Karekwaivanane, G.H. (2019). ‘Tapanduka Zvamuchese’: Facebook, ‘unruly

publics’, and Zimbabwean politics. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13, 54–71.
Baba Jukwa was able to convoke an ‘unruly public’ that was situated in
opposition to the state-controlled public sphere, and one that was transnational
in its reach.
0858. Katundu, M. A. (2018). Why is Tanzanian opposition weak twenty five years since
its re-introduction?. African Journal of Political Science and International
Relations, 12(5), 69–84.
Opposition parties in the country have remained both numerically institutionally

weak and fragmented.
0859. Kindersley, N. (2019). Rule of whose law? The geography of authority in Juba,
South Sudan. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 61–83.
I challenge top-down analyses that see political-military elites managing their

ethnic enclaves of followers and fighters through nepotism and gifts.
0860. Lamarque, H. (2019). Profitable inefficiency: The politics of port infrastructure in

Mombasa, Kenya. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 85–109.
I examine the distribution of power among public, private and criminal interests
invested in Mombasa port.
0861. Lamoureaux, S. & Sureau, T. (2019). Knowledge and legitimacy: The fragility of
digital mobilisation in Sudan. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13, 35–53.
We analyze Nafeer, a local grass-roots initiative for flood-disaster-relief that

made use of digital media despite the digital suppression.
0862. Mulenga, M.C. & Mulenga, J.N. (2018). Demystifying the concept of state or
regulatory capture from a theoretical public economics perspective. African Journal of
Political Science and International Relations, 12(7), 132–141.
State capture is a manifestation of government failure and is based on the prin-

ciples of the predatory government view of the state in which agents act as utility
maximizers.
0863. Musuguri, J.N. (2018). The impact of community policing in giving special
attention to vulnerable groups: A social work perspective. African Journal of Social
Work, 8(2), 102–108.
Community policing strategy should focus more on awareness creation, capacity

building and assisting vulnerable groups and the community at large.
Abstracts 213
0864. Ramadhan, H. (2018). Analysis of the pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial
bureaucracy of Buganda: The major milestones in its development. African Journal of
Political Science and International Relations, 12(6), 100–109.
The bureaucratic machinery remained in the Kingdom administrative hierarchy

without the powers it enjoyed during the pre-colonial and colonial era.
0865. Seabo, B., Molefe, W., & Molomo, M. (2018). Political trust in Botswana’s
executive presidency: The Khama era. African Journal of Political Science and
Batswana are more likely to distrust the president if they perceive high levels of
corruption and poor government performance.
0866. Stites, E. & Howe. K. (2019). From the border to the bedroom: Changing conflict
dynamics in Karamoja, Uganda. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57,
137–159.
The combination of a top-down sustained disarmament campaign and grass-

roots peace resolutions have created relative stability for the first time in decades.
0867. Woldearegay, T. (2018). Civil society under assault in Ethiopia. African Journal
of Political Science and International Relations, 12(7), 124–131.
Civil societies are not performing their proper role for the advancement of the
country’s democracy.
0868. Yan, Z. (2016). An object-oriented study on Yongwu shi: Poetry on eyeglasses in

the Qing dynasty. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79,
375–397.
I discuss Western and Chinese materiality, the economy and scholars’ lives,
political and social justification, as well as literary complexity and object
identity.
Psychological anthropology
0869. Ally, Y. & August, J. (2018). #Sciencemustfall and Africanising the curriculum:
Findings from an online interaction. South African Journal of Psychology, 48,
351–359.
Africanizing of curricula is associated with the perception that Western scientific

thinking is absolute at the expense of cultural belief systems.
0870. Barnes, B.R. (2018). Decolonising research methodologies: Opportunity and

caution. South African Journal of Psychology, 48, 379–387.
Decolonizing methodologies have potential, but it is important to be aware of

possible limitations.
0871. Canham, H. (2018). Theorising community rage for decolonial action. South
African Journal of Psychology, 48, 319–330.
I offer that affective meaning making in the theorization of rage can craft a
scholarship that enables praxis towards decolonial action.
0872. de Jager, M. & Naudé, L. (2018). Antecedents of risk-taking behaviour among

South African adolescents. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28, 382–388.
Males portray a higher risk for all types of risky behavior especially spending
time with peers.
0873. Ebrahim, S. (2018). Villains and victors: Representations of the fallists in

newspapers during the 2015 university crisis. South African Journal of Psychology,
48, 360–371.
Newspaper reports of the violence overshadowed reports of the positive changes

that the student protestors catalyzed.
0874. Edwards, S.D. (2018). Ubuntu HeartMath programme efficacy for social
coherence and work spirit: Preliminary evidence. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28,
420–425.
Thematic analysis of the written, experiential, evaluative descriptions also sug-

gested that participants derived benefit in their sense of work place coherence
and spirit.
0875. Ferreira, N. & Potgieter, I.L. (2018). Career-related dispositional factors in relation
to retention within the retail sector: An exploratory study. Journal of Psychology in
Africa, 28, 400–406.
The organizational commitment and career adaptability explains 16% of the

variance in employee retention factors.
0876. Fouché, E., Rothmann, S., & van der Vyver, C. (2017). Antecedents and outcomes
of meaningful work among school teachers. South African Journal of Industrial and
Organisational Psychology, 43, a1398.
Abstracts 215
Promoting perceptions of meaningful work might contribute to lower burnout,

higher work engagement, better self-ratings of performance and retention of
teachers.
0877. Jacobs, L. (2018). Women’s spiritually mediated stories about recovery from
alcohol use disorder: A brief report. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28, 416–419.
Spirituality appears as a key resource in women’s alcohol use disorder recovery.
0878. Kessi, S. & Boonzaier, F. (2018). Centre/ing decolonial feminist psychology in

Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 48, 299–309.
A decolonial feminist approach to psychology curricula and psychological

research is necessary for the discipline to remain relevant in contemporary
African contexts.
0879. Kiguwa, P. & Segalo, P. (2018). Decolonising psychology in residential and open
distance e-learning institutions: Critical reflections. South African Journal of
Psychology, 48, 310–318.
We interrogate and tackle the idea of the curriculum as more than written text,
but must include the psycho-social biographies of both students and staff.
0880. Macleod, C.I. (2018). The case for collation to inform debate and transform
practice in decolonising psychology. South African Journal of Psychology, 48,
372–378.
Textbook writers should use grounded methodologies to generate texts based on

South African, African, and Global South research.
0881. Marembo, M., Chinyamurindi, W.T., & Mjoli, T. (2018). Emotional intelligence
influences on the work performance of early career academics: An exploratory study.
Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28, 407–410.
Perception and regulation of emotional intelligence positively influence the

early career academic’s job, interpersonal, non-organizational and hierarchical
success.
0882. Maseti, T. (2018). The university is not your home: Lived experiences of a Black
woman in academia. South African Journal of Psychology, 48, 343–350.
I utilize an autoethnographic method to reveal my experiences of (un)belonging

and exclusions in academia.
0883. Mayer, C.-H., Viviers, R., & Tonelli, L. (2017). ‘The fact that she just looked at
me . . .’- Narrations on shame in South African workplaces. South African Journal of
Industrial and Organisational Psychology, 43, a1385.
Organizations need to be more aware of shame in the workplace and to address

the potential negative effects of shame on employees.
0884. Meier, C. & Geldenhuys, D.J. (2017). Co-constructing Appreciative Inquiry across
disciplines: A duo-ethnography. South African Journal of Industrial and
Organisational Psychology, 43, a1400.
Participants should be accommodated within the psychological space

where they find themselves at the moment when the intended intervention is
initiated.
0885. Mungai, K. & Bayat, A. (2018). High-functioning depression among women

in South Africa: An exploratory study. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28, 411–415.
Symptom prevalence may be explained largely by psychosocial stressors in patri-

archal legacy communities.
0886. Nako, N. & Muthukrishna, N. (2018). Teacher-instigated in-school interpersonal

violence: Types and prevalence in South African public schools. Journal of Psychology
in Africa, 28, 371–374.
A social role theory of gendered aggression suggests males are likely to resort to
physical violence, while females may engage in verbal violence.
0887. Ndungu, J.W., Ndetei, D.M., Cronje, J., & van Rooyen, K. (2018). Attribution style
and post-traumatic stress severity in the Central Region of Kenya: Influences of dwelling
location. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28, 355–359.
Social support protections in the rural dweller buffer them from negative self-
attributions for post-traumatic stress severity.
0888. Onyedibe, M.C.C., Ifeagwazi, C.M., & Ugwu, D.I. (2018). Psychopathy and
aggressive behaviour among Nigerian male prison inmates: The moderating role of
substance abuse. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 28, 365–370.
Psychological intervention is aimed at addressing aggression among prison

inmates with histories of substance abuse and psychopathy.
Abstracts 217
0889. Pedro, A., Goldschmidt, T., & Daniels, L. (2019). Parent-carer awareness and
understanding of dyspraxia: Implications for child development support practices.
Journal of Psychology in Africa, 29, 87–91.
Thematic analysis of the data suggested the parent-carers to be aware of motor

rather than cognition oriented limitations.
0890. Peltzer, K. & Pengpid, S. (2018). Post-traumatic stress disorder and health risk
behaviour among persons 15 years and older in South Africa. Journal of Psychology
in Africa, 28, 360–364.
We found no significant association between PTSD status and any other health
risk behaviors (tobacco use, low physical activity, and fast food consumption).
0891. Pillay, A.L. (2018). Professional and social responsibility in psychology and other
mental health disciplines with reference to the Goldwater Rule. South African Journal
of Psychology, 48, 388–399.
I raise the issue of their professional and social responsibility to help shape
society and its democratic processes.
0892. Ratele, K., Cornell, J., Dlamini, S., Helman, R., . . . , Titi, N. (2018). Some basic
questions about (a) decolonizing Africa(n)-centred psychology considered. South African
Journal of Psychology, 48, 331–342.
We want to generate a dialogue working towards African psychology as situated

decolonizing practice and knowledge.
0893. van Rensburg, C.J., Rothmann, S.I., & Diedericks, E. (2017). Person-environment
fit, flourishing and intention to leave in universities of technology in South Africa. South
African Journal of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, 43, a1422.
Managers and human resource practitioners should consider the use of a multi-
dimensional measure to assess flourishing at work.
0894. van Zyl, Y. & Dhurup, M. (2018). Self-efficacy and its relationship with satisfaction
with life and happiness among university students. Journal of Psychology in Africa,
28, 389–393.
Self-efficacy seems to facilitate both satisfaction with life and happiness

in general.
Social organization (General)

0895. Bird-David, N. (2017). Before nation: Scale-blind anthropology and foragers’ worlds
of relatives. Current Anthropology, 58, 209–226.
Focusing on scale, scaling, and scalability, scholars’ inattention to locals’ self-

determined horizons is of concern when analyzing indigenous cultures and
ontologies.
0896. Chu, E. & Michael, K. (2019). Recognition in urban climate justice: marginality
and exclusion of migrants in Indian cities. Environment and Urbanization, 31,
139–156.
We find that migrants experience extreme forms of climate injustice as they are
often invisible to the official state apparatus.
0897. Igarashi, D. (2019). The waqf-endowment strategy of a Mamluk military man:

The contexts, motives, and purposes of the endowments of Qijmas al-Is . a qı̄ (d. 1487).
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 82, 25–53.
I reveal how he selectively and strategically used the waqf system for personal
and/or public benefit at different stages of his life and according to social
circumstances.
0898. Jingrong, L. (2019). The nature and function of the Ernian lüling manuscript
unearthed from Zhangjiashan Han tomb no. 247. Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies. 82, 143–15.
The burial of the Ernian lüling manuscript may have taken place to illustrate the
social status and official capabilities of the owner to the underworld.
0899. Kordsmeyer, T., Mac Carron, P., & Dunbar, R.I.M. (2017). Sizes of permanent
campsite communities reflect constraints on natural human communities. Current
Anthropology, 58, 289–294.
We infer that these reflect numerical sizes at which communities may in some
way be socially optimal.
0900. Marfaing, L. (2019). Dakar ville moderne: La médiation des entrepreneurs

sénégalais en Chine. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 53, 89–107. [in French].
Imports of manufactured goods facilitate the social transformations that are

influencing the emergence of Dakar as a modern city.
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0901. Mtetwa, E. (2018). Disability and the challenge of employment in Zimbabwe: A

social protection perspective. African Journal of Social Work, 8(2), 78–84.
I examine the obstacles faced by persons with disabilities in gaining entry into
the formal labor market.
0902. Sarti, S., Biolcati-Rinaldi, F., & Vitalini, A. (2019). The role of individual
characteristics and municipalities in social inequalities in perceived health (Italy,
2010–2012): A multilevel study. Journal of Public Health, 27, 21–28.
Intervention to mitigate social inequalities in health should focus on structural

factors, such as education and the labor market.
Sociocultural change (Culture contact, migration,

modernization)
0903. Crawley, H. & Hagen-Zanker, J. (2019). Deciding where to go: Policies,
people and perceptions shaping destination preferences. International Migration, 57,
20–35.
Preferred destinations are rarely identified on the basis of migration policies

devised by different governments with the explicit aim of reducing the number
of arrivals.
0904. Fassin, D., Wilhelm-Solomon, M., & Segatti, A. (2017). Asylum as a form of life:
The politics and experience of indeterminacy in South Africa. Current Anthropology,
58, 160–187.
We propose to analyze asylum as a form of life, rather than as bare life, not
disambiguating the two meanings in tension in Wittgenstein’s reflections.
0905. Hannaford, D. (2018). Easy access: New dynamics in long-distance African

intimacies. Africa, 88, 645–662.
Neoliberal state policies target migrants as agents of development and providers

of social services.
0906. Hofmann, E.T., Jacobs, P., & Petrzelka, P. (2019). State immigration policies: The
role of state compacts and interest groups on immigration legislation. International
Migration, 57, 109–126.
Although states with compacts are more likely to pass inclusive immigration
laws, these are counterbalanced by higher numbers of exclusive laws.
0907. Maza, A., Gutiérrez-Portilla, M., Hierro, M., & Villaverde, J. (2019). Internal
migration in Spain: Dealing with multilateral resistance and nonlinearites. International
Migration, 57, 75–93.
Foreigners look for social services and cultural amenities, whereas natives are
more attracted by good climate conditions.
0908. Obeng, M.K.M. (2019). Journey to the East: A study of Ghanaian migrants in
Guangzhou, China. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 53, 67–87.
I discuss the experiences of identifiable sets of Ghanaian actors in Guangzhou,

China in the last two decades.
0909. Parashar, A. & Alam, J. (2019). The national laws of Myanmar: Making of
statelessness for the Rohingya. International Migration, 57, 94–108.
Under the later constitutions and legislations until recently, they are regarded as
neither minority nor citizen and rendered stateless by the law.
0910. Salverda, T. & Skovgaard-Smith, I. (2018). Attribution and contestation:

Relations between elites and other social groups. Critique of Anthropology, 38,
265–284.
A better understanding of the role of social groups in the attribution, mainten-

ance, and contestation of status is relevant.
0911. Schoene, A. (2018). Burning the straits: Indignation and hospitality in Ben Jelloun.
The Journal of North African Studies, 23, 557–568.
‘Burning’ refers both to the act of migrants setting sail across the sea, and to that
of torching their identity documents to avoid repatriation.
0912. Suso, C.T.C. (2019). Backway or bust: Causes and consequences of Gambian
irregular migration. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57, 111–135.
I explore the ambitions and capabilities of Gambians who embark on irregular

migration, or the so-called ‘backway.’
0913. Tjaden, J., Auer, D., & Laczko, F. (2019). Linking migration intentions with flows:
Evidence and potential use. International Migration, 57, 36–57.
We examine the association between estimated population averages of emigra-

tion intentions and official migration flow data.
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0914. Triandafyllidou, A. (2019). The migration archipelago: Social navigation and

migrant agency. International Migration, 57, 5–19.
We investigate how migrants perceive opportunities and navigate restrictions

eventually crossing borders whether unlawfully or legally.
0915. Zéphirin, R. (2019). The Americas’ multi-polar displacements as a new pattern in

Haitian-French Guyanese migrations. International Migration, 57, 58–74.
Trajectories of Haitian migrations systemically connect de facto French Guyana

to other migration poles in the American space.
Symbol systems (Religion, ritual, world view)

0916. Alenaizi, H.M. (2019). Praise and thanks be to God: Public and religious
descriptions of disability in Kuwait. Journal of Disability & Religion, 23, 59–89.
I discuss how disability is perceived through different cultures before focusing on

an exploration of the nature of Kuwaiti culture.
0917. Counted, V. (2019). African Christian diaspora religion and/or spirituality: A

concept analysis and reinterpretation. Critical Research on Religion, 7, 58–79.
This concept analysis identified emerging attributes of religion and/or spiritual-

ity in Africa as a transnational dynamic, and a platform for civic engagement
and activism.
0918. Forlenza, R. & Turner, B.S. (2019). Das Abendland: The politics of Europe’s
religious borders. Critical Research on Religion, 7, 6–23.
The cultural purity and the values that Europe craves in search of identity and
order are simply not available in a world of global interconnectedness and social
diversity.
0919. Gez, Y.N., van Droz, Y., Soares, E., & Rey, J. (2017). From converts to itinerants:
Religious butinage as dynamic identity. Current Anthropology, 58, 141–159.
We speak of religious butinage as a way of stimulating the discussion regarding

such dynamic religious practice.
0920. Gottlieb, A. (2019). Revisiting history, rethinking identity: Some Cabo Verdean
profiles in Afro-Jewish journeys. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 10,
47–73.
I profile several living Cabo Verdeans with Jewish ancestry, to sample the
ways in which diasporic Cabo Verdeans themselves experience their Afro-
Jewish heritage.
0921. Higashida, M. (2019). Participation of disabled youths in religious activities:

Indigenous social work practices in rural Sri Lanka. Journal of Disability & Religion,
23, 90–106.
Social work practices promoted collective activities and increased cohesiveness.
0922. Horii, M. (2019). Historicizing the category of ‘‘religion’’ in sociological theories:

Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. Critical Research on Religion, 7, 24–37.
I historicize the category ‘‘religion’’ (and its opposition ‘‘the secular’’) employed
by Weber and Durkheim, in the specific social context of Germany and France.
0923. Kapaló, J.A. (2019). The appearance of saints: Photographic evidence and religious
minorities in the secret police archives in Eastern Europe. Material Religion, 15,
82–109.
I discuss the dual character of the photographic traces of communities in the

archives as both religious justification and incrimination.
0924. Katz, J.G. (2018). Conversion, intermarriage and the legal status of Jews in French
Protectorate Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 23, 648–674.
Independence introduced new anxiety for Jews concerned about assimilation

and Jewish conversion to Islam.
0925. Lane, J.M., Kinnison, Q.P., & Ellard, A. (2019). Creating inclusive and
hospitable Christian schools: Three case studies. Journal of Disability & Religion, 23,
37–58.
The Christian schools studied might serve as exemplars for other Christian
schools seeking to include children with special needs.
0926. Ng, K., Pickett, W., Michaelson, V., & Freeman, J. (2019). Activity involvement and
spiritual health in children with ADHD and learning disabilities. Journal of Disability &
Religion, 23, 1–19.
Both sports and nonsport activities among adolescents with attention-deficit/

hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities mitigates overall spiritual health.
Abstracts 223
0927. Noah, T.A. (2019). Religious and cultural syncretism in FELA!: Reading the
Broadway adaptation of the life of Fela Anikulapo Kuti through Bill T. Jones and Tejumola
Olaniyan. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 31, 40–52.
The spiritual life of Fela is eclipsed by a Christianized version of it to deify the

musician in the minds and hearts of viewers.
0928. Pons-De Wit, A., Houtman, D., Exalto, J., Van Lieburg, F., . . . , Wisse, M. (2019).
Buildings and bibles between profanization and sacralization: Semiotic ambivalence in the
Protestant Dutch Bible Belt. Material Religion, 15, 1–26.
Ideology makes profanization of material forms indispensable, because any pre-

existent sacredness of matter would rule out these personal spiritual experiences.
0929. Shokri-Foumeshi, M. (2016). Identification of a small fragment of Mani’s Living

Gospel (Turfan Collection, Berlin, M5439). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
I show that M17 and the new fragment M5439 are two separate pieces of a single
manuscript page.
0930. Snodgrass, J.G., Most, D.E., & Upadhyay, C. (2017). Religious ritual is good
medicine for indigenous Indian conservation refugees: Implications for global mental
health. Current Anthropology, 58, 257–284.
Culture can serve as a potentially important source of health resilience in

situations of uncertainty, potentially preventing stress- and trauma-induced
suffering,
0931. Wang, X. (2019). The stone of Mount Tai: Shigandang worship in northern
China and the power of symbols. Material Religion, 15, 54–81.
The perception and worship of the stones from a holy mountain in a city in
northern China show how the symbolic meaning and the agency of material
objects are connected to each other.
0932. Willey, R.D. (2019). Shifting the sacred: Rob Bell and the postconservative
evangelical turn. Critical Research on Religion, 7, 80–99.
Community is set above the personal in the hierarchy of sacred Evangelical

things and is reminiscent of earlier progressive forms of Evangelicalism, such
as Social Gospel Christianity.
0933. Winfield, P.D. (2019). Shinnyo-En and the formulation of a new esoteric
iconography. Material Religion, 15, 27–53.
I provide a rare insight into the use of image and text to imagine, illustrate, and
shape the major contours of a ‘‘new’’ religious movement in the modern period.
0934. Wu, J. (2019). The Buddhist salvation of Ajataśatru and the Jaina non-salvation of
Kūnika. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 82, 85–110.
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The Jainas proposed no remedy to mitigate the consequences of Kunika’s sins.
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Theoretical, Methodological, and General
0935. Gärdenfors, P. & Högberg, A. (2017). The archaeology of teaching and the
evolution of Homo docens. Current Anthropology, 58, 188–208.
We demonstrate how different technologies depend on increasing sophistication

in the levels of cognition and communication required for teaching them.
0936. Gez, Y.N. & Droz, Y. (2019). ‘‘It’s all under Christianity": Religious territories in
Kenya. Journal of Africana Religions, 7, 37–61.
The demarcation of religious territories reveals people’s unique conception of

their religious environment and their own positionality therein.
0937. Hamann, E., Zúñiga, V., & Garcı́a, J.S. (2017). Identifying the anthropological in a
mixed-methods study of transnational students in Mexican schools. Current
Anthropology, 58, 124–132.
Anthropological inquiry can add crucial value to mixed-methods, interdisciplin-

ary inquiry.
0938. Lindhardt, M. (2019). Pentecostalism, witchcraft, and Islamic spiritologies in

central Tanzania. Journal of Africana Religions, 7, 84–93.
Majini have become incorporated into contemporary shared understandings of

witchcraft and traditional healing.
0939. Mcintosh, J. (2019). Polyontologism: When ‘‘syncretism’’ does not suffice. Journal
of Africana Religions, 7, 112–120.
In some communities, religious pluralism may preserve discontinuity between

loci of religious power, a model I call ‘‘polyontologism.’’
Abstracts 225
0940. Mensah, J.K., Bawole, J.N., Ahenkan, A., & Azunu, R. (2019). The policy and
practice of local economic development in Ghana. Urban Forum, 30, 205–222.
Local areas are still building their impetus for the initiative of their own
economic development and find practical solutions that make sense in
their milieu.
0941. Schneider, J. (2018). Fifty years of Mafia corruption and anti-Mafia reform.
Current Anthropology, 59 (S18), S16–S27.
Sicily became a hub for global heroin trafficking and violence intensified among
Mafia factions and against the state.
0942. Simiyu, S., Cairncross, S., & Swilling, M. (2019). Understanding living
conditions and deprivation in informal settlements of Kisumu, Kenya. Urban Forum, 30,
223–241.
Compounds lack infrastructural services such as water, sanitation and solid

waste disposal, and where they are available, these services are shared.
0943. Spies, E. (2019). Being in relation: A critical appraisal of religious diversity and
mission encounter in Madagascar. Journal of Africana Religions, 7, 62–83.
Mission encounters are no longer viewed as encounters between discrete entities

but as specific meshwork.
Urban Studies
0944. da Cruz, N.F. & Marques, R.C. (2019). An application of a multicriteria model to
assess the quality of local governance. Urban Affairs Review, 55, 1218–1239.
The constructed ‘‘Municipal Governance Indicator’’ is calculated for the case of

Lisbon to show the outputs of the model and its potential usefulness.
0945. Dell’Anno, R. & Martinez-Vazquez, J. (2019). A problem with observational

equivalence: Disentangling the renter illusion hypothesis. Urban Studies, 56, 193–209.
Our theoretical framework can be used to interpret micro- and macro-econo-

metric findings as a renter illusion.
0946. Deslatte, A. & Stokan, E. (2019). Hierarchies of need in sustainable development:

A resource dependence approach for local governance. Urban Affairs Review, 55,
1125–1152.
Cities which placed greater emphasis on retaining and developing existing busi-
nesses are also more committed to sustainability.
0947. Heerwig, J. & McCabe, B.J. (2019). High-dollar donors and donor-rich
neighborhoods: Representational distortion in financing a municipal election in Seattle.
Urban Affairs Review, 55, 1070–1099.
The local campaign finance system is an aspect of our political process that has
been largely overlooked in research on campaigns and elections.
0948. Hoolachan, J. & McKee, K. (2019). Inter-generational housing inequalities: ‘Baby

Boomers’ versus the ‘Millennials’. Urban Studies, 56, 210–225.
Narratives of inter-generational conflict misleadingly direct blame towards the

agency of Baby Boomers rather than political structures.
0949. Kass, A., Luby, M.J., & Weber, R. (2019). Taking a risk: Explaining the use of
complex debt finance by the Chicago Public Schools. Urban Affairs Review, 55,
1035–1069.
We develop several explanations for local government risk-taking with a case study
of the Chicago Public Schools’ use of auction rate securities and interest rate swaps.
0950. Kim, H., Marcouiller, D.W., & Choi, Y. (2019). Urban redevelopment with justice
implications: The role of social justice and social capital in residential relocation decisions.
Relationships with neighbors in the redevelopment project lead to a lower like-

lihood of relocation.
0951. Lay, J.C. & Bauman, A. (2019). Private governance of public schools:
Representation, priorities, and compliance in New Orleans charter school boards. Urban
Affairs Review, 55, 1006–1034.
It is important to examine the people who compose the boards, their decision-
making processes, and the extent of public involvement.
0952. Linkous, E.R. (2019). A political ecology of exurbia in the sunbelt: Lessons from an
award-winning, ‘‘unworkable’’ plan. Urban Affairs Review, 55, 1175–1217.
The plan’s cluster approach is a spatial strategy that rationalizes large land-
owner, planning, and conservation interests, but does little to address rural
restructuring.
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0953. Lyon, M.A. & Henig, J.R. (2019). Blurring lines? How locally based collaborations
handle the redistribution/development tradeoff. Urban Affairs Review, 55,
1100–1124.
Equity is more common in collaborations with greater union and community

organization representation and those affiliated with national networks.
0954. Neuman, S.B. & Moland, N. (2019). Book deserts: The consequences of income
segregation on children’s access to print. Urban Education, 54, 126–147.
Our studies indicate stark disparities in access to print for those living in con-
centrated poverty.
0955. Proffitt, D.G., Bartholomew, K., Ewing, R., & Miller, H.J. (2019). Accessibility planning
in American metropolitan areas: Are we there yet? Urban Studies, 56, 167–192.
Metropolitan planning organizations serving large regions with high per capita
income are the most likely to produce plans that focus on accessibility.
0956. Shah, P. (2019). Racial change, racial threat, and minority representation in cities.
The intersections between racial context and shifting political and racial land-
scapes have important consequences of minority political power for the future.
0957. Whiteside, H. (2019). Foreign in a domestic sense: Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and
paradoxes in critical urban studies. Urban Studies, 56, 147–166.
Zeno’s famous paradoxes in particular, can serve as allegorical heuristics capable

of provoking new theories, expectations, or assumptions in urban studies.
0958. Wickes, R., Zahnow, R., Corcoran, J., & Hipp, J.R. (2019). Neighbourhood social
conduits and resident social cohesion. Urban Studies, 56, 226–248.
Reports of social cohesion are significantly associated with the types of social
conduits, the diversity of land use and the degree of neighborhood fragmentation.
0959. Windzio, M. & Trommer, M. (2019). Not just by walking distance: residential
segregation and children’s network integration in the city of Bremen. Urban Affairs
Review, 55, 1153–1174.
Spatial segregation influences networks of home visits by a stepwise process of

network creation and intensification, and not just by walking distance.
0960. Wolman, H. (2019). Looking at regional governance institutions in other

countries as a possible model for U.S. metropolitan areas: An examination of
multipurpose regional service delivery districts in British Columbia. Urban Affairs
Review, 55, 321–354.
I analyze what accounts for their successful creation and institutionalization and
consider whether such an institutional model is potentially adoptable.
LINGUISTICS
Historical linguistics
0961. Al-Jallad, A. (2016). The Arabic of the Islamic conquests: notes on phonology and
morphology based on the Greek transcriptions from the first Islamic century. Bulletin of
the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 419–439.
I include phonemic and allophonic variation in consonants and vowels, and

nominal morphology.
0962. Atkinson, M., Mills, G.J., & Smith, K. (2019). Social group effects on the
emergence of communicative conventions and language complexity. Journal of
Language Evolution, 4, 1–18.
Languages that are used for communication in small-scale ‘societies of intimates’

exhibit greater complexity as a result of the communicative contexts in which
they are typically employed.
0963. Cichosz, A. (2019). Parenthetical reporting clauses in the history of English: the
development of quotative inversion. English Language and Linguistics, 23, 183–214.
Reporting clauses do not show regular quotative inversion with all subject types
until the Early Modern English period. I link this development to the emergence
of the comment clause with say.
0964. Claridge, C. (2018). Now in the historical courtroom. Journal of Historical

Pragmatics, 19, 223–242.
Now in professional legal speech thus functions as a strategic metapragmatic

framing strategy.
0965. Cole, M. (2019). Subject and adjacency effects in the Old Northumbrian gloss to
the Lindisfarne Gospels. English Language and Linguistics, 23, 131–154.
Abstracts 229
I consider variation between the present-tense markers -ô and -s in Late Old

Northumbrian.
0966. Coyos, J.-B. (2019). The dynamics between unified Basque & dialects in the
northern Basque Country: A survey based on perceptual dialectology. International
Journal of Language & Linguistics, 6(1), 115–125.
Understanding the relationship between these different forms of the Basque

language is necessary to implement an appropriate language policy.
0967. Daniels, D., Barth, D., & Barth, W. (2019). Subgrouping the Sogeram languages.
Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9, 92–127.
We propose changes to the way glottometric data are coded and calculated and
the way glottometric results are visualized.
0968. deCastro-Arrazola, V. & Kirby, S. (2019). The emergence of verse templates

through iterated learning. Journal of Language Evolution, 4, 28–43.
Patterns may emerge in the process of cultural transmission. Unstructured sound

sequences impose a challenge to short-term memory.
0969. Dewulf, J. (2019). Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New
Netherland (1614–1664). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 34, 49–82.
I want to reconstruct the language use of this population group by an analysis of

historical sources from New Netherland in a broader Atlantic context.
0970. Elias, A. (2019). Visualizing the Boni dialects with Historical Glottometry. Journal
of Historical Linguistics, 9, 70–91.
Given the presence of numerous intersecting isoglosses, the tree diagram is an

inappropriate model for describing the relations between Boni dialects.
0971. Goes, H. & Bostoen, K. (2019). Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo
and Proto-Bantu. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 40, 23–74.
The historical-comparative evidence from the Kikongo Language Cluster sug-

gests that neither symmetric nor asymmetric progressive Vowel Height Harmony
should be reconstructed to Proto-Bantu.
0972. Gong, X. (2016). A phonological history of Amdo Tibetan rhymes. Bulletin of

the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 347–374.
Amdo Tibetan derives from an intermediate stage which, like many other
Tibetan dialects, does make the distinction of phonemic length.
0973. Grenoble, L.A., McMahan, H., & Petrussen, A.K. (2019). An ontology of landscape
and seascape in Greenland: The linguistic encoding of land in Kalaallisut. International
Journal of American Linguistics, 85, 1–43.
We use the principles of ethnophysiography and the study of landscape termin-

ology to present a culturally specific ontology for Kalaallisut.
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0974. Gutiérrez, A. (2019). A reanalysis of Nivaĉle /kl/ and /*/: Phonetic, phonological, and
typological evidence. International Journal of American Linguistics, 85, 45–74.
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I hypothesize that the development of /kl/ from Proto-Mataguayan *l can be
rooted in speech perception factors.
0975. Häcker, M. (2019). Kinship or friendship? Journal of Historical Pragmatics,

20, 96–131.
My study is based on the use of the term cousin in letters, as this often provides
precise information on the relationships of correspondents.
0976. Hudson, M.J. (2019). Socio-ecological resilience and language dynamics: An

adaptive cycle model of long-term language change. Journal of Language Evolution,
4, 19–27.
I propose a model of long-term language change based on the adaptive cycle of

resilience theory.
0977. Jacques, G. & List, J.-M. (2019). Save the trees. Journal of Historical
Linguistics, 9, 128–166.
Methodological limits in historical reconstruction might easily lead to an over-

estimation of regularity, which may in turn appear as conflicting patterns when
the researcher is trying to reconstruct a coherent phylogeny.
0978. Kempe, V., Gauvrit, N., Gibson, A., & Jamieson, M. (2019). Adults are more
efficient in creating and transmitting novel signalling systems than children. Journal of
Language Evolution, 4, 44–70.
Emergence and transmission of communication systems are unlikely to be driven

by children and point to the importance of cognitive maturity and pragmatic
expertise of learners.
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0979. Lindsay, D. (2019). When the bough breaks: A contribution to Falk’s Hypothesis.
Journal of Language Evolution, 4, 71–77.
Falk has proposed that a crucial event in the emergence of language arose when
hominin infants could no longer cling to their mothers’ underbellies.
0980. Links, M. (2019). Expressing conditionality in earlier English. English Language

and Linguistics, 23, 155–182.
The limitations on verb-initial conditionals develop diachronically and are

related to restrictions on verb movement and choice of verb, and not frequency.
0981. Lutzky, U. (2019). ‘‘But it is not prov’d.’’ Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 20,
1–19.
I offer an innovative sociopragmatic profile of but as a contrastive marker in

Early Modern English trials.
0982. Pain, F. (2019). ‘‘Brahmana’’ as an honorific in ‘‘Indianized’’ mainland Southeast

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Asia: A linguistic approach. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African
Studies. 82, 111–141.
Could b/vra . be an autochthonous Mon-Khmer word or did it originate in the

Sanskrit/Pali word vara- ‘‘excellent, splendid, noble?’’
0983. Schulte, M. (2019). The semantic development of borrowed derivational

morphology: Change and stability in French-English language contact. Diachronica, 36,
66–99.
The semantic structure of the borrowed suffix -ery is similar to that of its origin -erie
and there is no evidence for semantic reduction as a result of the borrowing process.
0984. Sharifian, F. & Bagheri, M. (2019). Conceptualisations of xoshbaxti

(‘happiness/prosperity’) and baxt (‘fate/luck’) in Persian. Journal of Historical Pragmatics,
20, 78–95.
We illustrate the usefulness of combining diachronic and synchronic approaches

when analyzing cultural conceptualizations.
0985. Shen, X. & Chen, X. (2019). Doing power threatening acts (PTAs) in ancient
China. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 20, 132–156.
The choices of modulation strategies reflected the game playing of the require-
ments of affiliational propriety and illocutionary effect within the jian act.
0986. Sims-Williams, N. (2016). Two Iranian loanwords in Syriac. Bulletin of the

School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 485–490.
Sasgauna ‘‘red’’ and syanqa ‘‘hemi-drachm’’, are loanwords from Middle

Persian, though unattested in that language.
0987. Timofeeva, O. (2019). Chancery norms before Chancery English? Journal of

Historical Pragmatics, 20, 51–77.
Routinization and standardization are seen as factors brought about by the

centralized production of royal writs and their subsequent adoption as templates
in monastic scriptoria.
0988. Van Gysel, J.E.L. (2019). Hierarchical alignment and comparative linguistics in the
Guaykuruan languages: An exhaustive alignment approach. International Journal of
American Linguistics, 85, 123–161.
I show how alignment subsystems in languages with hierarchical alignment can

provide additional evidence for the phylogenetic relations between languages.
0989. Verkerk, A. (2019). Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies.
Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9, 9–69.
Reticulation may arise from a number of processes, including dialect chain

break-up, borrowing (both shortly after language splits and later on), incomplete
lineage sorting, and characteristics of lexical datasets.
0990. Wang, Y. (2019). A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern

English dialogues. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 20, 20–50.
I reveal significant differences between the two types of dialogue and shed light
on the development of composite predicates in association with grammatical-
ization and lexicalization.
Psycholinguistics
0991. Bechtold, L., Bellebaum, C., Egan, S., Tettamanti, M., & Ghio, M. (2019). The role
of experience for abstract concepts: Expertise modulates the electrophysiological
correlates of mathematical word processing. Brain and Language, 188, 1–10.
Abstracts 233
Expertise affects the processing stages of semantic integration and memory

retrieval specifically for expertise-related concepts.
0992. Chou, T.L., Wong, C.H., Chen, S.Y., Fan, L.Y., & Booth, J.R. (2019). Developmental
changes of association strength and categorical relatedness on semantic processing in the
brain. Brain and Language, 189, 10–19.
Weak versus strong association strength produced greater activation over time in
the left middle temporal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus.
0993. Cummine, J., Boliek, C.A., McKibben, T., Jaswal, A., & Joanisse, M.F. (2019).
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) selectively modulates semantic information
during reading. Brain and Language, 188, 11–17.
Reading pathways can be modulated via brain stimulation to shift individuals’

sensitivity to word-level characteristics, namely imageability.
0994. DeFrank, M. & Kahlbaugh, P. (2019). Language choice matters: When profanity
affects how people are judged. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38,
126–141.
Speakers using profanity had poorer impression ratings on several variables,

including overall impression, intelligence, and trustworthiness.
0995. Drane, D.L. & Pedersen, N.P. (2019). Knowledge of language function and
underlying neural networks gained from focal seizures and epilepsy surgery. Brain and
Language, 189, 20–33.
We cover the common language deficits observed in focal dyscognitive seizure

syndromes.
0996. Felker, E.R., Klockmann, H.E., & De Jong, N.H. (2019). How conceptualizing
influences fluency in first and second language speech production. Applied
Psycholinguistics, 40, 111–136.
Abandoning and regenerating a speech plan increases the time needed

to solve conceptual difficulties while speaking in the L2 to a greater degree
than in the L1.
0997. Humă, B., Stokoe, E., & Sikveland, R.O. (2019). Persuasive conduct: Alignment
and resistance in prospecting ‘‘cold’’ calls. Journal of Language and Social
Psychology, 38, 33–60.
Persuasive conduct consists in managing the recipiency of the meeting requests

by promoting alignment and hampering resistance.
0998. James, L.E., Schmank, C.J., Castro, N., & Buchanan, T.W. (2018). Tip of the
tongue states increase under evaluative observation. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 47, 169–178.
Evaluative observation by a third party can be disruptive to word retrieval.
0999. Javan, S.S. & Ghonsooly, B. (2018). Learning a foreign language: A new path to
enhancement of cognitive functions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47,
125–138.
Mastering English as a foreign language causes considerable enhancement in two

components of executive functions: cognitive flexibility and working memory.
1000. Kaan, E., Futch, C., Fuertes, R.F., Mujcinovic, S., & De La Fuente, E.A. (2019).
Adaptation to syntactic structures in native and nonnative sentence comprehension.
Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 3–27.
Only native English speakers adapted, and only to one of the two structures.
1001. Kim, S. & Pylkkänen, L. (2019). Composition of event concepts: Evidence for
distinct roles for the left and right anterior temporal lobes. Brain and Language, 188,
18–27.
Eventives, but not agentives or resultatives, elicited a significant increase in the

left anterior temporal lobe at 250 ms.
1002. Kobayashi, Y., Sugioka, Y., & Ito, T. (2018). ERP responses to violations in the
hierarchical structure of functional categories in Japanese verb conjugation. Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 215–240.
A left-lateralized negativity followed by a P600 was elicited for the anomaly of

attaching a Negation morpheme outside a Tense-marking suffix.
1003. Lau, K.-l. (2018). Language skills in classical Chinese text comprehension. Journal
of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 139–157.
Students’ classical Chinese reading performance was unsatisfactory with respect

to both lower- and text-level comprehension.
Abstracts 235
1004. Lifshitz-Ben-Basat, A. & Mashal, N. (2018). Improving naming abilities among

healthy young-old adults using transcranial direct current stimulation. Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 113–124.
Transcranial direct current stimulation is a noninvasive tool to facilitate brain

plasticity and enhance language abilities.
1005. Lin, D. Chen, G., Liu, Y., Liu, J, . . . , Mo, L. (2018). Tracking the eye movement of
four years old children learning Chinese words. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
47, 79–93.
Children can learn words effectively with minimal exposure and little
instruction.
1006. Max, L., Kadri, M., Mitsuya, T., & Balasubramanian, V. (2019). Similar within-
utterance loci of dysfluency in acquired neurogenic and persistent developmental
stuttering. Brain and Language, 189, 1–9.
The probability of stuttering on a given word was more influenced by motor

production variables than language variables.
1007. Mcmanus, K. & Marsden, E. (2019). Signatures of automaticity during practice:

Explicit instruction about L1 processing routines can improve L2 grammatical processing.
Coefficient of variation analyses indicated knowledge restructuring early on that

appeared to lead to gradual automatization over time.
1008. Mokari, P.G. & Werner, S. (2018). Perceptual training of second-language

vowels: Does musical ability play a role? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47,
95–112.
Tonal memory facilitates the perceptual learning of the novel phonological

structure of L2.
1009. Mulder, E., Van De Ven, M., Segers, E., & Verhoeven, L. (2019). Context, word,
and student predictors in second language vocabulary learning. Applied
Learning gains were higher for sentences with more semantic contextual support
and in students with stronger reading comprehension skills.
1010. Nam, Y. & Hong, U. (2019). Behavioral and neural evidence on the processing of
ambiguous adjective-noun dependencies in Korean sentence comprehension, Brain and
Language, 188, 28–41.
The processor immediately attempted the A-N2 integration for a way out from
the ultimate processing breakdown even before the occurrence of the main verb.
1011. Novén, M., Schremm, A., Nilsson, M., Horne, M., & Roll, M. (2019). Cortical
thickness of Broca’s area and right homologue is related to grammar learning aptitude
and pitch discrimination proficiency. Brain and Language, 188, 42–47.
We contribute to locating cortical regions important for language-learning

aptitude.
1012. Okdie, M. & Rempala, D.M. (2019). Brief textual indicators of political
orientation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38, 106–125.
Brief text, even when not overtly political, reflects one’s political ideology.
1013. Robles, J.S. (2019). Building up by tearing down. Journal of Language and
Social Psychology, 38, 85–105.
I show how the moral organization of in-group and out-group assessments are
built in the mundane world of conversation.
1014. Roessel, J., Schoel, C., Zimmermann, R., & Stahlberg, D. (2019). Shedding new
light on the evaluation of accented speakers: Basic mechanisms behind nonnative
listeners’ evaluations of nonnative accented job candidates. Journal of Language and
Social Psychology, 38, 3–32.
They evaluated candidates with a strong accent worse than candidates with a
native(-like) pronunciation—even when the quality of arguments was of no
relevance.
1015. Rosiers, A., Woumans, E., Duyck, W., & Eyckmans, J. (2019). Investigating the
presumed cognitive advantage of aspiring interpreters. Interpreting, 21, 115–134.
Excellent cognitive abilities are considered important in many interpreter selec-

tion procedures.
1016. Saito, K. (2019). The role of aptitude in second language segmental learning: The
case of Japanese learners’ English /7/ pronunciation attainment in classroom settings.
Abstracts 237
Aptitude related to phonological analysis and memory may play a key role in the
incidence of advanced second language segmental proficiency attainment.
1017. Shigeno, S. (2018). The effects of the literal meaning of emotional phrases
on the identification of vocal emotions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47,
195–213.
The literal meaning of emotional phrases influences the listener’s perception of

the speaker’s emotion in Japanese.
1018. Siriwittayakorn, T. (2018). The processing of relative clause attachment as a tool

for resolving a problem in typology of relative clauses: Preliminary evidence from Thai
data. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 179–193.
Should there be distinction between relative clauses and nominal sentential

complements in pro-drop languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
and Thai?
1019. Tamura, Y., Fukuta, J., Nishimura, Y., Harada, Y., . . . , Kato, D. (2019). Japanese
EFL learners’ sentence processing of conceptual plurality: An analysis focusing on
reciprocal verbs. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 59–91.
There was no reading time delay for reciprocal verbs but a delay for optionally
transitive verbs.
1020. Tillman, R. & Louwerse, M. (2018). Estimating emotions through language

statistics and embodied cognition. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47,
159–167.
Sentence pairs with different emotions yielded longer Representation theories

than sentences with the same emotions in a cognitive task tailored toward lin-
guistic representations.
1021. Treiman, R., Decker, K., & Kessler, B. (2019). Adults’ sensitivity to graphotactic
differences within the English vocabulary. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 167–182.
Participants used the presence of a single versus double medial consonant as a

marker of the system to which an item belongs.
1022. Tribushinina, E., Mak, M., Dubinkina, E., & Mak, W.M. (2018). Adjective
production by Russian-speaking children with developmental language disorder and
Dutch–Russian simultaneous bilinguals: Disentangling the profiles. Applied
We suggest that reduced input might be counterbalanced by linguistic and cog-

nitive advantages of bilingualism.
1023. Tsui, R.K.-Y., Tong, X., & Chan, C.S.K. (2019). Impact of language dominance on
phonetic transfer in Cantonese–English bilingual language switching. Applied
The absence of switch cost in balanced bilinguals implies differences in the mech-
anism underlying balanced vs unbalanced bilinguals’ speech production.
1024. Veivo, O., Porretta, V., Hyönä, J., & Järvikivi, J. (2018). Spoken second language
words activate native language orthographic information in late second language learners.
The influence of proficiency on the matching was nonlinear: proficiency

impacted the mapping more in the lower half of the proficiency scale in both
experiments.
1025. Waddle, M., Bull, P., & Böhnke, J.R. (2019). ‘‘He is just the nowhere man of
British politics’’: Personal attacks in prime minister’s questions. Journal of Language
and Social Psychology, 38, 61–84.
A personal attack coding system was devised, and significant individual differ-
ences between Prime Ministers and increases across individual premierships were
observed.
1026. Yano, M., Suzuki, Y., & Koizumi, M. (2018). The effect of emotional state on the
processing of morphosyntactic and semantic reversal anomalies in Japanese: Evidence
from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47,
261–277.
Intact memory access and impaired integration of syntactic and semantic infor-
mation ia found in individuals in a sad mood.
1027. Zheng, Y. & Samuel, A.G. (2019). How much do visual cues help listeners in
perceiving accented speech? Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 93–109.
We did not find any influence of listeners’ prior experience with Chinese accented
speech, suggesting that cross-talker generalization is limited.
1028. Zhou, P. & Ma, W. (2018). Children’s use of morphological cues in real-time event
representation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 241–260.
Abstracts 239
Five-year-old children can use morphological cues as effectively as adults during

real-time event representation.
Sociolinguistics
1029. Alazri, S.N.S. (2019). Developing a questionnaire for assessing parental
involvement in reading in Sultanate of Oman. International Journal of Language &
Linguistics, 6(1), 63–73.
The items were selected from different recourses such as, literature rives, philosophy
of educational system in Oman, Omani culture, and the researchers’ experience.
1030. Alfaleh, S.A. (2019). Direct speech act in communication between Saudi Arabian
family members. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 6(1), 108–114.
My analysis focused on three areas: direct request speech act, the cultural influ-
ence and the notion of face threatening.
1031. Almazloum, M. & Almeqdadi, M. (2019). Exploring international students’

motivations and identity construal with regard to learning English in the Canadian
context: A poststructuralist account 2019. International Journal of Language &
The learner associated learning English with diverse discourses: nationalism, religi-
osity, travel, world culture, and communicating and affiliating with diverse people.
1032. Araújo, L.D. (2019). Feedback in conference interpreter education: Perspectives of

trainers and trainees. Interpreting, 21, 135–150.
Content analysis was used to identify points of divergence and convergence

between the views of trainers and trainees regarding the usefulness of feedback.
1033. Azuma, S. (2019). Recovering from a natural disaster: The poster project in the
city of Onagawa, Japan. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 6(1),
25–34.
Journalistic compassion is a great tool for connecting with the local community
and for assisting with the recovery effort in the area.
1034. Behrman, A., Ferguson, S.H., Akhund, A., & Moeyaert, M. (2019). The effect of
clear speech on temporal metrics of rhythm in Spanish-accented speakers of English.
Language and Speech, 62, 5–29.
We explored clear speech as a clinical tool to improve prosody and hence, inter-
personal communication, in nonnative speakers.
1035. Brennan, S. & O’Rourke, B. (2019). Commercialising the cúpla focal: New
speakers, language ownership, and the promotion of Irish as a business resource.
Language in Society, 48, 125–145.
Tensions exist over language ownership that emerge as more fluent propri-
etors of ‘bilingual businesses’ position themselves in the ‘newness’ of these
speakers.
1036. Burnett, H. & Bonami, O. (2019). Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and
the actuation of linguistic changes: Grammatical gender in French parliamentary debates.
Language in Society, 48, 65–93.
Linguistic prescriptions are only successful if they build on existing ideologies.
1037. Cibulskiene_ , J. (2019). Communicating attitudes through metaphor: A case study

of euro adoption. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 130–157.
Personification of the euro makes the idea of euro adoption more

understandable.
1038. Dong, J. & Jiang, F. (2019). Construing evaluation through patterns: Register-
specific variations of the introductory it pattern. Australian Journal of Linguistics,
39, 32–56.
We explore how it is used to construct evaluation and social interaction in dif-

ferent contexts of situation.
1039. Dotson, B. (2016). On ‘‘personal protective deities’’ (’go ba’i lha) and the Old
Tibetan verb ’go. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79,
525–545.
I propose a new etymology of ’go ba’i lha, and also touch on the changing
relationship between Tibetans and their gods over time.
1040. Fabiszak, M., Gruszecka, M., & Brzezińska, A.W. (2019). Historical politics in
newspaper reporting: Media representations of football supporters’ commemoration
activism. Journal of Language and Politics, 18, 61–82.
Glos Wielkopolski constructs football supporters as a rejuvenating force in local

identity and memory politics.
Abstracts 241
1041. Fu, R. & Chen, J. (2019). Negotiating interpersonal relations in Chinese-English

diplomatic interpreting: Explicitation of modality as a case in point. Interpreting, 21,
12–35.
We discuss the role of government press conference interpreters as active co-

participants in public diplomatic settings.
1042. González-Lloret, M. (2019). Technology and L2 pragmatics learning. Annual

Review of Applied Linguistics, 39, 113–127.
I review the efforts to explore the connections between interlanguage pragmatics

and a variety of technologies and innovations.
1043. Hassen, N.E. (2019). Narrator’s technique in the Iraqi narrative theater.
International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 6(1), 90–96.
I view the importance of Qasim’s play for the Iraqi society by preserving the
literary heritage.
1044. Hassen, N.E. (2019). The problem of German intermediary translation into Arabic
(Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther as a model). International Journal of
Language & Linguistics, 6(1), 74–80.
Because language is regarded as the means of expressing all matters, it is

necessary to find a way of communication between the different communities
in translations.
1045. Hoffmann, D. (2019). Restrictions on the usage of spatial frames of reference in

location and orientation descriptions: Evidence from three Australian languages.
Australian Journal of Linguistics, 39, 1–31.
I focus on the influence of morphosyntactic features and take cognitive

approaches as well as cultural salience into consideration.
1046. Jaspers, J. (2019). Authority and morality in advocating heteroglossia. Language,

Culture and Society, 1, 83–105.
Scholars may be more effective in contexts of value conflict when their know-
ledge serves to expand rather than reduce the range of alternatives for
stakeholders.
1047. Karas, H. (2019). False equality in election advertisements: The use of

multilingualism and subtitles. Journal of Language and Politics, 18, 131–153.
Code-switching and subtitles can play a role in conveying the political message
and in masking it at the same time.
1048. Karlsson, T. (2019). Public administration in transition: Studying understandings

and legitimations amongst middle managers within a government agency. Journal of
Language and Politics, 18, 107–130.
I demonstrate how actors categorize a traditional hierarchy together with con-

temporary ideas of consumerism.
1049. Kelly-Holmes, H. (2019). Multilingualism and technology: A review of

developments in digital communication from monolingualism to idiolingualism. Annual
It is necessary to understand how the technical aspects of digital technology as

well as the politico-economic dimensions to that technology have changed.
1050. Lai, C. (2019). Technology and learner autonomy: An argument in favor of the
nexus of formal and informal language learning. Annual Review of Applied
I discuss both teacher-initiated technology-enhanced formal learning environ-

ments and learner-constructed self-directed learning experience in informal
contexts.
1051. Lauwo, M.S. (2018). Power, literacy engagement, and polyphonic identities:
Translanguaging in a Tanzanian community library. Southern African Linguistics and
Applied Language Studies, 36, 133–146.
I show how specific uses of translanguaging destabilized entrenched power hier-

archies between different languages and their speakers.
1052. Lemghari, E.M. (2019). A metaphor-based account of semantic relations among

proverbs. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 158–184.
Rather than sharply distinct, conventionalized meaning and contextual meaning

of proverbs form a continuum, residing in their common conceptual base.
1053. Lev-On, A. (2019). Facebook framed: Portraying the role of social media in
activism. Journal of Language and Politics, 18, 40–60.
Negative framing portrayed Facebook activities as incompatible with genuine

political action, and portrayed the ‘‘Facebook generation’’ as lazy and spoiled.
Abstracts 243
1054. Levy, M. (2019). World call: Are we connected? Annual Review of Applied
I look at digital literacy, a cognate field that has long been motivated by issues and
concerns relating to educational technology and the classroom–world connection.
1055. Liu, X. (2019). An audio-visual integrated approach to Japanese language and

culture. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 6(1), 1–7.
I propose an audio-visual integrated approach to Japanese language and culture

as a bridge to acculturation for desirable learning outcomes.
1056. Lomicka, L. & Lord, G. (2019). Reframing technology’s role in language teaching:
A retrospective report. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 39, 8–23.
We offer insights into how the field of computer-assisted language learning can
help shape the future of language teaching and learning.
1057. Mabiletja, M.M. (2018). Parents’ direct or indirect involvement in the choice of
language of learning and teaching. South African Journal of African Languages,
38, 355–362.
Parents should be provided with many alternatives to make logical and equitable
decisions rather than being compelled to choose between Afrikaans- and
English-medium schools.
1058. Matsumoto, M.E. (2018). More than mistakes: Grammatical errors and
sociolinguistic identity in a colonial-era K’iche’ Maya manuscript. Anthropological
The patterned gender and number disagreement indicates that the scribe was a
native K’iche’ speaker who was not fully bilingual in Spanish.
1059. McCormick, T.L. (2018). Yes Master! Multimodal representations of BDSM bodies
on a South African website. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies, 36, 147–160.
Participants in bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism communities show

their belonging through a specific set of verbal and non-verbal tropes.
1060. McEnery, T., Brezina, V., Gablasova, D., & Banerjee, J. (2019). Corpus linguistics,
learner corpora, and SLA: Employing technology to analyze language use. Annual
We consider the aspirations that learner corpus researchers have had to engage
with second language acquisition research.
1061. Meer, P., Westphal, M., Hänsel, E.C., & Deuber, D. (2019). Trinidadian secondary
school students’ attitudes toward accents of standard English. Journal of Pidgin and
Creole Languages, 34, 83–125.
British and American voices received slightly higher ratings than local ones, but
an American-influenced Trinidadian voice was also highly appreciated.
1062. Mehl, S. (2019). Light verb semantics in the International Corpus of English:
Onomasiological variation, identity evidence and degrees of lightness. English Language
and Linguistics, 23, 55–80.
Onomasiological evidence and identity evidence also suggest the new finding that
the three light verbs and their constructions exhibit degrees of lightness.
1063. Mgijima, V.D. & Ngubane, N.I. (2018). Complexities of intercultural writing
process of budding multilingual writers. Southern African Linguistics and Applied
Language Studies, 36, 77–84.
English did not inhibit the writers from expressing thoughts, but most feel they
would have expressed themselves more freely not using just English.
1064. Mohr, S., Fehn, A.-M., & de Voogt, A. (2019). Hunting for signs: Exploring
unspoken networks within the Kalahari Basin. Journal of African Languages and
We present comparative data on visual hunting signals from three Kalahari

Khoe-speaking groups (Ts’ixa, Buga, WAni) and one Kx’a-speaking group
(Juj’hoan).
1065. Mordaunt, O.G. & McGuire, M. (2019). Some aspects of technology in teaching
English to English language learners. International Journal of Language &
The New Literacy Studies refers to a body of work that applies to how technol-
ogy and literacy impact our lives, identities and social affiliations.
1066. Morgan, R.Z. & Kaneko, M. (2018). Deafhood, nationhood and nature: Thematic
analysis of South African Sign Language poetry. South African Journal of African
Languages, 38, 363–374.
Abstracts 245
The South African Sign Language poetry reviewed reflects a fairly even distri-
bution across three important subjects: deafhood, nationhood and nature.
1067. Nater, H. (2018). Language contact in the northernmost regions of the Pacific
Northwest: Tlingit elements in Tahltan. Anthropological Linguistics, 60, 44–59.
The principal forces driving transfer of vocabulary from Tlingit to Tahltan are
trade- and culture-related contact, migrations, remigrations, and intermarriage.
1068. Pan, F. (2018). A multidimensional analysis of L1–L2 differences across three

advanced levels. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 36,
117–131.
L2 writers need to increase their awareness of the importance of stance expres-

sions in academic writing.
1069. Peyrot, M. (2016). The Sanskrit Udanavarga and the Tocharian B Udanastotra: A
window on the relationship between religious and popular language on the northern Silk
Road. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 305–327.
This Tocharian B text was found in otherwise Sanskrit manuscripts, which sug-
gests that speakers of Tocharian preferred certain doctrinal texts in Sanskrit.
1070. Pfeifer, H. & Spencer, A. (2019). Once upon a time: Western genres and narrative
constructions of a romantic jihad. Journal of Language and Politics, 18, 21–39.
We contribute to the debate on why narratives of jihad have an appeal in certain

parts of western society.
1071. Schreier, D. (2019). /h/ insertion as a ‘camouflage archaism’?: Dialect contact,

colonial lag and the feature pool in South Atlantic English. Diachronica, 36, 37–65.
Entire linguistic systems (in the form of koinés) are not conservative as such but
that arrested language (and dialect) change operates on a feature-specific level
instead.
1072. Sebolai, K. (2018). The differential predictive validity of a test of academic literacy
for students from different English language school backgrounds. Southern African
Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 36, 105–116.
The test predicted the outcome variable marginally better for the First
Additional Language group than it did for their counterpart.
1073. Squires, L. (2019). Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song
lyrics. Language in Society, 48, 1–30.
The effects of context on sociolinguistic processing can inform concepts like

genre and enregisterment, and the processes underlying language attitudes.
1074. Stockwell, G. & Reinders, H. (2019). Technology, motivation and autonomy, and
teacher psychology in language learning: Exploring the myths and possibilities. Annual
The role of teachers in the classroom and their attitudes toward their envir-
onment and the pressures that they face can also impact technology
implementation.
1075. Sykes, J.M. (2019). Emergent digital discourses: What can we learn from hashtags
and digital games to expand learners’ second language repertoire? Annual Review of
Applied Linguistics, 39, 128–145.
I describe a framework with specific examples for learner exploration of digital

discourses as part of their language learning experience.
1076. Tay, D. (2019). Death in a multicultural society: Metaphor, language and religion
in Singapore obituaries. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 84–102.
Obituaries can shed further light on the underexplored question of how meta-
phor use interacts with linguistic and religious identities.
1077. Tyali, S.M. (2018). Ambiguities of a decolonising press culture: On South Africa’s
Imvo Zabantsundu (Native Opinion). South African Journal of African
Languages, 38, 303–309.
The newspaper’s reliance on white capital during South Africa’s early colonial
era compromised the ambitions of the journal’s founding editor.
1078. Wang, J. & Fang, J. (2019). Accuracy in telephone interpreting and on-site
interpreting: A comparative study. Interpreting, 21, 36–61.
We used a Conversation-Analysis-based micro-analytical approach to explore

the nature of accurate interpretations.
1079. Warschauer, M., Yim, S., Lee, H., & Zheng, B. (2019). Recent contributions of
data mining to language learning research. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics,
39, 93–112.
Abstracts 247
Theoretical and empirical support is needed in the appropriate collection, use,

and interpretation of data for specific research and pedagogical objectives.
1080. Wehrmeyer, E. (2019). A corpus for signed language interpreting research.

Interpreting, 21, 62–90.
Characteristics of original (not interpreted) signed language corpora are

explored in terms of metadata conventions, transcription and annotation.
1081. Wilken, I., Taljard, E., & de Wet, F. (2018). Language learning applications for
Sepedi: A user experience study. Southern African Linguistics and Applied
Language Studies, 36, 85–104.
The applications were specifically designed to assist students with the acquisition
of vocabulary related to healthcare.
1082. Xeketwana, S. (2018). A theoretical approach to teaching academic literacy

through the use of genres: A knowledge about language for preservice teachers. South
African Journal of African Languages, 38, 349–354.
The analysis of isiXhosa media texts could benefit educators’ knowledge about
language, which is needed to enhance literacy in South African schools.
1083. Zavala, V. (2019). Youth and the repoliticization of Quechua. Language,

Culture and Society, 1, 59–82.
Young people are disinventing Quechua as Intercultural Bilingual Education

conceives it and reinventing it within a much more inclusive and politicized
project.
Theoretical linguistics
1084. Bickmore, LS. (2019). Unaltered morphemes as phonological triggers and targets
in Rutooro. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 40, 3–22.
I show that Mid Vowel Harmony is blocked in Rutooro when an alveolar frica-
tive intervenes between the trigger and the target.
1085. Calder, J. (2019). The fierceness of fronted /s/: Linguistic rhematization through
visual transformation. Language in Society, 48, 31–64.
Personae like the fierce queen become iconized through rhematization, a process
in which qualic congruences are construed.
1086. Cook, A. (2019). The use of the passive marker bei in spoken Mandarin.
Australian Journal of Linguistics, 39, 79–106.
Spoken data can reveal interesting insights in to the complexity of the grammat-
ical system, insights that may possibly not be apparent on the basis of
written texts.
1087. Coppock, E. (2019). Quantity superlatives in Germanic, or ‘‘Life on the fault line
between adjective and determiner.’’ Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 31, 109–200.
Quantity superlatives are not structurally analogous to quality superlatives such

as tallest on either a relative or a proportional reading.
1088. D’hoedt, F., De Smet, H., & Cuyckens, H. (2019). Constructions waxing and
waning: A brief history of the zero-secondary predicate construction. Journal of English
While the various classes of secondary predicate construction-taking verbs often

show opposite developments, these lower-level incongruities are resolved at a
higher schematic level.
1089. Daniels, D. (2019). Using phonotactics to reconstruct degrammaticalization: The

origin of the Sirva pronoun be. Diachronica, 36, 1–36.
The degrammaticalized form is the Sirva 3 sg pronoun be, and the proto-lan-
guage is Proto-Sogeram.
1090. de Haro, A.H. (2019). Consonant deletion and eastern Andalusian Spanish vowels:
The effect of word-final /s/, /r/ and // deletion on /i/. Australian Journal of
A suprasegmental feature could be the perceptual cue used to identify an under-

lying consonant after a vowel in this variety of Spanish.
1091. Fertig, D. (2019). Morphological change through phonological analogy: 2nd person
singular -s ! -st and related developments in Germanic. Journal of Germanic
I discuss the 2nd person singular change regarding the more general phenom-
enon of word-final t accretion seen in dozens of words such as German Axt ‘ax’.
1092. Gxowa-Dlayedwa, N. (2018). Investigating click clusters in isiXhosa syllables.

South African Journal of African Languages, 38, 317–325.
Abstracts 249
We treat any click cluster as a single sound burst, regardless of it being di-graph,
tri-graph, or quadri-graph in practical orthography.
1093. Hachimi, A. (2018). Arabic dialect contact and change in Casablanca: The role of
simplification and salience in the adoption of a morphosyntactic variable.
Anthropological Linguistics, 60, 60–93.
Differences in referential and nonreferential indexical meanings play a critical

role in the different outcomes of this morphosyntactic contact.
1094. Hegedu¡¡s, I. & Gyo00 ri, G. (2019). Uncovering historical semantic connections with
the help of image schemata: The case of Modern English some, same and Old English
sam-. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 1–21.
We will facilitate the semantic reconstruction of the ancestral Proto-Indo-European

form and help identify the exact cognate relationships between some, same and sam-.
1095. Henkin, R. (2016). Functional codeswitching and register in educated Negev

Arabic interview style. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79,
279–304.
In the narrative registers, switching may mark evaluation (commenting, explain-

ing, self-repair, sidetracking, repetition).
1096. Hitch, D. (2016). Old Khotanese type A stems in -a- and -e-. Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 491–523.
The D2 stems end synchronically, albeit abstractly, in -e- and take the regular
type A endings.
1097. Hoeksema, J. & Napoli, D.J. (2019). Degree resultatives as second-order

constructions. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 31, 225–297.
We outline a number of the commonalities among the semantic domains of

expressive language used in resultatives.
1098. Holden, J. (2019). Semantic primes In Denesu liné: In search of some lexical
‘‘universals.’’ International Journal of American Linguistics, 85, 75–121.
Dene seems not to express partonymy and typonymy via abstract lexical items.
1099. Hutton, L. & Curzan, A. (2019). The grammatical status of however. Journal of
English Linguistics, 47, 29–54.
Descriptive grammars of the last twenty years have labeled select conjunctive
adverbs other than however ‘‘marginal coordinators.’’
1100. Jansen, S. (2019). Change and stability in goose, goat and foot: Back vowel
dynamics in Carlisle English. English Language and Linguistics, 23, 1–29.
We need to study the most adjacent back vowels to understand the complexity of
vowel change and the influence on nearby vowels.
1101. Kaland, C., Galatà, V., Spreafico, L., & Vietti, A. (2019). Which language R you
speaking? /r/ as a language marker in Tyrolean and Italian bilinguals. Language and
Speech, 62, 137–163.
/r/ correlates with three interdependent variables: the sociolinguistic background

of the speakers, their speech production, and how their speech is perceived.
1102. Konoshenko, M. & Shavarina, D. (2019). A microtypological survey of noun

classes in Kwa. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 40, 75–114.
Noun class systems are flexible as they show high intragenetic variation and are
easily degradable, but they almost never disappear completely.
1103. Kulikov, V. (2019). Effects of speaking rate and sonority on voicing duration
in Russian obstruents. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 6(1),
35–50.
Duration of glottal pulsing in voiced obstruents increases in response to sonority

of adjacent segment and at slow speaking rate.
1104. Lang, B. & Davidson, L. (2019). Effects of exposure and vowel space distribution
on phonetic drift: Evidence from American English learners of French. Language and
Speech, 62, 30–60.
A closer look at the high vowels provides insight into how phonetic categories
are influenced both by drift and by a pressure to keep vowel categories distinct
between the languages.
1105. Lybaert, C., De Clerck, B., Saelens, J., & De Cuypere, L. (2019). A corpus-based
analysis of V2 variation in West Flemish and French Flemish dialects. Journal of
Germanic Linguistics, 31, 43–100.
Clausal topicalized elements, elements that have peripheral functions, and elem-
ents that lack prosodic integration all favor noninverted word order.
Abstracts 251
1106. Macaulay, M. (2018). Reduplication in Menominee. Anthropological

Menominee reduplication is stem reduplication, not root reduplication, and

propose an analysis of regular reduplication, drawing on synchronic and dia-
chronic facts.
1107. Marcelo, D., Garcia-Marques, L. & Duarte, I. (2019). Language as a ‘game

changer’ for spontaneous trait inference. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 185–209.
We studied spontaneous trait inference behavior when sentences were modified

by adverbs of manner and checked linguistic parameters to verify which had
more importance when the inference occurred.
1108. McCullough, E.A., Clopper, C.G., & Wagner, L. (2019). Regional dialect perception
across the lifespan: Identification and discrimination. Language and Speech, 62,
115–136.
Regional dialect perception is simultaneously impacted by the specific dialects

involved and the cognitive difficulty of the task.
1109. Mkochi, W. (2018). The morphosyntactic status of zamu- and ku- in Malawian
Tonga. South African Journal of African Languages, 38, 337–342.
The suggested analysis also solves the problem of what appears to be bidirec-
tional dependencies by ku-, which is untypical of affixes.
1110. Mndawe, I.K. (2018). Noun valency in isiZulu and Southern isiNdebele. South
African Journal of African Languages, 38, 343–348.
The noun + possessive pronoun compounding in isiZulu is confined to the

nouns denoting kinship, while in isiNdebele this is not always the case.
1111. Morras, J. & Barcelona, A. (2019). Conceptual structuring of the English

prepositions between, among, and amid, and their Spanish equivalent entre: A cognitive
linguistic approach to spatial, non-spatial and temporal scenes. Cognitive Linguistic
Studies, 6, 103–129.
Cognitive linguistic analysis showed in this research may also offer a new per-
spective in the area of language teaching.
1112. Mtenje-Mkochi, A.A. (2018). ‘Repair’ strategies of vowel sequences in Cindali.

South African Journal of African Languages, 38, 327–335.
Cindali uses processes of glide formation, secondary articulation and vowel eli-
sion to avoid sequences of vowels.
1113. Neidorf, L. & Pascual, R.J. (2019). Old Norse influence on the language of
Beowulf: A reassessment. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 31, 298–322.
Beowulf is entirely devoid of Old Norse influence and it was probably composed
ca. 700, long before the onset of the Viking Age.
1114. Noël, D. (2019). The decline of the DEONTIC NCI construction in Late Modern
English: Towards a radically usage-based perspective on constructional attrition.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 22–57.
A ‘radically’ usage-based approach to diachronic construction grammar

implements the cognitive commitment of this subdiscipline of cognitive
linguistics.
1115. Pagliarulo, G. (2019). On the etymology of Gothic Alew. Journal of Germanic

I believe the direct derivation of alew from oleum is the most plausible and
parsimonious hypothesis.
1116. Ramonda, K. (2019). The role of encyclopedic world knowledge in semantic

transparency intuitions of idioms. English Language and Linguistics, 23, 31–53.
Pragmatic inferencing via encyclopedic world knowledge plays a role for the
non-arbitrary way in which native speakers perceive the semantic transparency
of idioms.
1117. Renwick, M.E.L. & Nadeu, M. (2019). A survey of phonological mid vowel
intuitions in central Catalan. Language and Speech, 62, 164–204.
Variably-judged words are also phonetically variable, indicating a word-specific

association between strength of phonological representation and realization.
1118. Rupp, L. & Tagliamonte, S.A. (2019). This here town: Evidence for the
development of the English determiner system from a vernacular demonstrative
construction in York English. English Language and Linguistics, 23, 81–103.
Survival of transitory stages in the cycle by several historical demonstrative

forms, each in a range of functions, has given rise to a particular sense of
‘layering.’
Abstracts 253
1119. Shaw, J.A. & Kawahara, S. (2019). Effects of surprisal and entropy on vowel
duration in Japanese. Language and Speech, 62, 80–114.
We are conceptualizing surprisal as an index of motor fluency and entropy as an

index of competition in vowel selection.
1120. Starr, R.L. (2019). Cross-dialectal awareness and use of the bath-trap distinction in
Singapore: Investigating the effects of overseas travel and media consumption. Journal
of English Linguistics, 47, 55–88.
I investigate a well-known difference among regional English dialects: the real-

ization of vowels in the bath and trap lexical sets.
1121. Szcześniak, K. (2019). Meaning hides in the confusion of the construction: The
characteristic-as-place construction. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6, 58–83.
Many characterizations of the semantic content of schematic constructions pro-

posed in the literature may be too detailed.
1122. Tamtomo, K. (2019). The creation of monolanguaging space in a krámá Javanese

language performance. Language in Society, 48, 95–124.
The performance of monolanguaging spaces involves the erasure of speakers’

multilingual repertoires and translanguaging practices.
1123. Toscano, J.C. & Lansing, C.R. (2019). Age-related changes in temporal and
spectral cue weights in speech. Language and Speech, 62, 61–79.
Older adults relied more heavily on onset F0 than younger adults, even though
this cue is less reliable in American English.
1124. Tottie, G. (2019). From pause to word: uh, um and er in written American English.
English Language and Linguistics, 23, 105–130.
Uh, um and er in writing can be shown to qualify as words, while their status in
speech appears to be on a cline of wordhood.
1125. Ye, Z. (2019). The emergence of expressible agency and irony in today’s China: A
semantic explanation of the new bèi-construction. Australian Journal of Linguistics,
39, 57–78.
The conventional beì-construction has been ingeniously and humorously

recruited and modified to express agency and disagreement.

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A collective conversation is necessary on where to draw the line between respect

International migration has made global inequalities apparent within and

The socio-economic environment of the student has a signiﬁcant impact on the

Feelings of obligation, expectations of support and intimate pressure are crucial

0802. Toivanen, A.-L. (2019). Zombified mobilities: Clandestine Afroeuropean journeys in

0804. Castryck, G. (2019). Bordering the lake: Transcending spatial orders in

A focus on space-making, spatial practices, and imaginations of space provides a

I examine the interaction between the local elite—more speciﬁcally the

0808. Dooling, W. (2018). Poverty and respectability in early twentieth-century Cape

Percentile is a economic-demographic concept, implying class diﬀerence, indexed

There is a disconnect between the theoretical and historical underpinnings of

Ethnic competition played a major role in late-colonial mobilizations.

0814. Maxwell, D. (2019). Remaking boundaries of belonging: Protestant missionaries

Luba Katanga ethnicity emerged out of the establishment of territorial and

Kinship (Family organization, marriage)

Motivational interviewing principles and practices can be applied to families and

The visits involve prayer, commensality, and recreation.

The intervention promotes the use of meditation to improve concentration of the

0822. Scarborough, J. (2018). Family-based therapy for pediatric anorexia nervosa:

Challenges are barriers to clinical supervision, inadequate treatment options,

Cognitive behavioral therapy and family interventions contribute to recovery of

We present an assimilative integrated approach using behavioral therapy as the

I demonstrate how Senegalese selectively reinforce links with certain family

Physical activity levels should hence be considered when evaluating adolescents

Reported chronic diseases were hyperlipidemia, hypertension, bronchial asthma,

The main contributing factors were place of residence, mother’s education,

Fear of stigmatization and the possibility of losing employment among

Physician-initiated substitution reduces patients’ concerns in switching.

0833. Levasseur, P. (2019). Implementing a regression discontinuity design to explore the

0838. Warmerdam,L., de Beurs, E., Barendregt, M., & Twisk, J. (2019).

The test food consumed suggests an important diﬀerence in the increase of