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Vacancy: University of the Free State Lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch – Literature (poetry) OR Linguistics (sociolinguistics and/or morphology) Vakature: Universiteit van die Vrystaat Lektor in Afrikaans en Nederlands – Letterkunde (poësie) OF Taalkunde (sosiolinguistiek en/of morfologie) Read more / Lees meer...
Conference: Phonetics and Phonology of Subsaharan Languages From 7-10 July 2013, the University of the Witwatersrand will be hosting a conference on ‘Phonetics and Phonology of Subsaharan Languages’. This conference is being held in honour of the late Prof. Tony Traill. Papers presented at the conference will be collected together into a peer-reviewed Festschrift for Prof. Traill. Abstracts are invited from researchers into any aspect of the phonetics or phonology of Subsaharan languages, including Indo-European languages spoken in Africa.
