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Journal articles on the topic "Kikuyu language"

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Peng, Long. "Kikuyu vowel harmony." South African Journal of African Languages 20, no. 4 (2000): 370–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2000.10587442.

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Schuhmacher, W. Wilfried, and F. Seto. "The Bantu Kikuyu language and Pyrenean Basque." Fontes Linguae Vasconum, no. 67 (December 31, 1994): 435–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.35462/flv67.4.

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Schwarz, Florian. "Focus marking in Kikuyu." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 30 (January 1, 2003): 41–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.30.2003.180.

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 Im Kikuyu, einer in Kenia gesprochenen Bantusprache, wird Fokus systematisch durch Wortstellung markiert. In dieser Arbeit werden die verschiedenen Varianten der Markierung von Fokus in Frage-Antwortsequenzen dargestellt. Nach einem Überblick über in der Literatur vorhandene Diskussionen des Phänomens wird auf der Grundlage von mit einem Muttersprachler erhobenen Daten eine syntaktische Analyse von Fokuskonstruktionen mit der Partikel ne vorgeschlagen. Ferner werden neue Daten zur Fokussierung verschiedener Satzteile, z.B. der VP, des ganzen Satzes und des Wahrheitswerts, präsentiert. Z

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Mithanga Kamau, Francis, Kennedy Ogada, and Cheruiyot Wilson Kipruto. "Analysis of Machine-Based Learning Algorithm Used in Named Entity Recognition." Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 26 (2023): 069–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/5073.

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Aim/Purpose: The amount of information published has increased dramatically due to the information explosion. The issue of managing information as it expands at this rate lies in the development of information extraction technology that can turn unstructured data into organized data that is understandable and controllable by computers Background: The primary goal of named entity recognition (NER) is to extract named entities from amorphous materials and place them in pre-defined semantic classes. Methodology: In our work, we analyze various machine learning algorithms and implement K-NN which

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NYAGUTHII, GACHAU ELENA, and ANASHIA NANCY ONG’ONDA. "analysis of adaptation of the Loanwords in Kikuyu technological Words." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 6, no. 3 (2018): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol6.iss3.996.

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This paper examines loanwords adopted by native Gikuyu speakers to nativise English technological words using the theoretical framework of Optimality Theory as initiated by Prince and Smolensky (1993). Loanword adaptation is a linguistic phenomenon that occurs cross linguistically whenever one language interacts with another language. However, there are stipulations to borrowing because loanwords must be adapted to fit the second language’s Phonology system. Drawing from a sample of 80 words collected from the domain of technology, medicine, education and agriculture, the study found that Giku

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Murigi, Jacob Muiruri. "Popular Culture and Political Repression: The Rejection of Political Repression through Language." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. I (2024): 99–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.801009.

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This paper does a Critical Discourse Analysis on popular songs in Kenya to show that the artists are cognizant of the evils committed by the political elite and condemn them. The paper investigates, analyzes and interprets discourse in Kikuyu popular songs to show how language has been used resist oppression by the political class in Kenya. The Kikuyu popular artists use language to represent the political leadership in Kenya, condemning them for misuse of their positions to oppress the citizenry. Popular music can be a site of political discourse, it and a field to challenge the elite’s domin

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Westley, David. "Dimu: An Ancient Character in Modern Bantu Language Tales." Fabula 63, no. 3-4 (2022): 343–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2022-0020.

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Abstract This article begins with a table which shows modern words for “ogre”, e. g., zimu in Zulu, irimu in Kikuyu and dimo in Sotho, in Bantu language tales and relates them to the Proto-Bantu term, dimu. Using insights from depth psychology, Aarne-Thompson-Uther classification and, especially, performance theory, the paper examines the character of the ogre in a number of theoretical areas. These include the relationship between tradition and creativity, the development of narrative meaning and how the ogre functions as a symbol with special reference to stories found in eastern and souther

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Kaburo, Diana. "A Syntactic Analysis of Raising Structures in Kĩmũthambĩ." Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies 1, no. 2 (2022): 44–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.101.

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This paper provides a syntactic analysis of noun phrase movement in raising predicates in Kĩmũthambĩ, a Bantu language, spoken in Kenya. Kĩmũthambĩ belongs to the larger Kikuyu-Kamba group (E50) and is classified as E531 Mwimbi-Muthambi by Eberhard et al. (2022). The study is guided by the Minimalist Program developed by Chomsky (1995). This theory recognizes that there is always a trigger movement which is the need to check features at an appropriate landing site. The paper demonstrates that Raising in Kĩmũthambĩ is triggered by the need to check case features. Since raising verbs cannot assi

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Herman, Rebecca. "Final Lowering in Kipare." Phonology 13, no. 2 (1996): 171–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700002098.

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In many languages, fundamental frequency shows a marked decrease utterance-finally or phrase-finally. Ladefoged (1982) generalises that ‘in nearly all languages the completion of a grammatical unit such as a normal sentence is signaled by a falling pitch’. Bolinger (1978) also writes that ‘the most widely diffused intonational phenomenon seems to be the tendency to “go down at the end”’. These sorts of abrupt decreases which affect only the end of the utterance (known as FINAL LOWERING) are distinct from gradual decreases in fundamental frequency over the course of the entire utterance (known

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Gichohi, Stella Nyanjugu, and Agus Subiyanto. "A comparative study of Kikuyu Proverbs and its English equivalents on the role and position of women: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage perspective." Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies 2, no. 2 (2022): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i2.152.

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Proverbs are part of any culture. They are symbolic as they carry the cultural wisdom and heritage of any community. Studies in the past have shown that proverbs just like other oral traditions help in the construction of identities and ideologies. Such identities and ideologies are as in gender, the roles of those genders and stereotypes alike. Kikuyu proverbs, particularly those on the role and position of women are no different. They are carriers of meaning. Kikuyu proverbs, just like many other proverbs, can be translated to other languages and their equivalents are provided as well. This

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Kikuyu language"

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Brinkman, Inge. "Kikuyu gender norms and narratives." Leiden, the Netherlands : Research School CNWS, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=u8LZAAAAMAAJ.

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Nyagah, Judith W. "The acquisition of initial English consonant clusters by Kikuyu children." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307002.

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Wanjeri, Michael Maina. "Language and gender : Male domination among the Kikuyu of Kenya, East Africa." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-272.

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<p>Language and gender is one of the most intriguing and interesting areas in sociolinguistic study. It investigates how men and women (or boys and girls) use language differently in social contexts.</p><p>Extensive study and research has been carried out in this field, particularly in regard to the English language. Eminent linguists such as Ronald Wardhaugh, David Crystal, Ralph Fasold, and Deborah Tannen have studied varying male-female use of the English language. They have also attempted comparison with other languages and cultures. Wardhaugh, for instance, has studied male-female use of

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Orcutt-Gachiri, Heidi Ann. "Kenyan Language Ideologies, Language Endangerment, and Gikuyu (Kikuyu): How Discourses of Nationalism, Education, and Development Have Placed a Large, Indigenous Language at Risk." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192949.

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This dissertation, based on pilot research in the U.S. and Kenya in 2002 and fieldwork in two secondary schools in Kenya in 2004, has a twofold focus. First, it examines language ideologies of English, Kiswahili, and Kenya's 53 indigenous languages, in particular Gikuyu [Kikuyu], in the context of Kenyan discourses of nationalism, education, and development. Second, it shows how these language ideologies are contributing to the language endangerment of Kenya's indigenous languages.The stable trilingualism enjoyed by the parents of today's young Kenyans is not shared by their children. The rese

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Starzmann, Paul. "Inheritance and contact in Central Kenya Bantu." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17686.

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Die Studie bietet Einblicke in die Geschichte des kenianischen Hochlands aus linguistischer bzw. dialektologischer Perspektive. Als Grundlage dient eine Fülle an empirischen Sprachdaten für alle Varietäten, die unter dem Label Central Kenya Bantu (E50) zusammengefasst werden, darunter Gikuyu, Kamba und Meru. Die Dissertation gliedert sich in drei Teile: Mithilfe von Dialektometrie und multidimensionaler Skalierung werden die Sprachdaten in einem ersten Schritt einer umfassenden quantitativen Analyse unterzogen (dialektologische Vermessung). Dadurch lässt sich die phonologische und lexikalische

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Gromova, Nelly V. "Taasisi ya Nchi za Asia na Afrika, Chuo Kikuu cha Moscow. Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili katika Urusi." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98608.

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Utafiti wa lugha ya Kiswahili katika Urusi ulianza mwishoni mwa karne ya 18. Lakini utafiti hasa wa lugha za Kiafrika katika Urusi ulihusu ukoo wa Kisemetiki. Lakini uchunguzi kamili wa lugha za Kiafrika hasa lugha hai ulianza katika Urusi baada ya Mapinduzi ya Oktoba yatokee. Na lugha ya kwanza ya Afrika ya kitropiki iliyofundishwa katika Urusi ya kisoviet ilikuwa ni lugha ya Kiswahili.

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Muriungi, Peter Kinyua. "Wh-questions in Kitharaka." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15701.

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Poláková, Tereza. "Poskytování jazykové podpory dětem s odlišným mateřským jazykem v předškolním věku." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-346740.

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The thesis is devoted to the problem of providing language support to children with a different mother tongue in preschool age. The theoretical part discusses the child with a different mother tongue, the framework conditions for providing language support to children with a different mother tongue at preschool age in the Czech Republic, methodical and educational materials suitable language support for children with a different mother tongue in preschool age and the method Kikus. Empirical part is prepared on the basis of action research conducted under the support of a language course by Kik

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Ristić, Petra. "Přístupy k rané výuce anglického jazyka v předškolních zařízeních." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-365495.

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The thesis deals with a topical and at the same time controversial isssue in the pre- shool education - the very early foreign language learning. The aim of the thesis is to outline the conditions of English language learning in pre-school facilities in the Czech Republic (more precisely in Prague) and analyse and compare selected methods used for teaching English. The thesis consists of the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part focuses on early language learning in the Czech and European context, on curriculum conditions and teachers' qualification in the Czech Republic and

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Books on the topic "Kikuyu language"

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G, Benson T., ed. Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Armstrong, Lilias Eveline. The phonetic and tonal structure of Kikuyu. Published for the International Institute of African Languages & Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Mwangi, Ndegwa wa. Kihoto mbere: Marebeta ma Kanyong'i wa Rũgũcio. Franciscan Kolbe Press, 2018.

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Kabetũ, Mathew Njoroge. Kaguraru na waithĩra. Kenya Literature Bureau, 1991.

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Brinkman, Inge. Kikuyu gender norms and narratives. Research School CNWS, 1996.

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Mũnene, Albert Wakang'ũ. Mũtaarani Mũgĩkũyũ. East African Educational Publishers, 1995.

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Mugane, John M. A paradigmatic grammar of Gĩ kũ yũ. CSLI Publications, 1997.

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Kĩarie, Joshua. Menya Gĩkũyũ. W. Njoroge, 2007.

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Perez, Carolyn Harford. Aspects of complementation in three Bantu languages. Reproduced by the Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986.

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Perez, Carolyn Harford. Aspects of complementation in three Bantu languages. Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Kikuyu language"

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Bergvall, Victoria L. "5. A Typology of Empty Categories for Kikuyu and Swahili." In Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendahl. De Gruyter, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110883350-006.

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Bergvall, Victoria L. "The Position and Properties of In Situ and Right-Moved Questions in Kikuyu." In Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, edited by David Odden. De Gruyter, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110882681-005.

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Ngure, Eunice W. M., and Simon Nganga. "Men as vulnerable disputants in the Kikuyu traditional elders’ courts." In Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and Beyond. African Sun Media, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52779/9781991201836/18.

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S. Amirtha, Ms, and Dr B. Ajantha. "EXPLORING CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND IDENTITY IN NGUGI WA THIONG'O'S THE RIVER BETWEEN." In Futuristic Trends in Social Sciences Volume 3 Book 4. Iterative International Publisher, Selfypage Developers Pvt Ltd, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.58532/v3bgso4p2ch4.

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This research paper aims to explore the theme of cultural diversity and identity in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novel The River Between. The novel is set in colonial Kenya and explores the clash between traditional African customs and the influence of Western colonization. This novel is highlighting the tensions between traditional Kikuyu customs and the introduced Western ideals and practices brought by colonialism. This analysis encompasses the various characters' perspectives and their grappling with the changes and conflicts arising from the collision of cultures. This novel also expresses the various cultural elements including language, religion and gender roles, their impact on the characters and their communities. This paper seeks to shed light on the complexities of cultural diversity, identities and the challenges faced by individuals and societies in navigating their identities in a rapidly changing world.

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Macharia, Keguro. "Ethnicity as Frottage in Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya." In Frottage. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479881147.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 argues that Jomo Kenyatta attempts to fuse an ethno-nationalist and ethno-diasporic project through a genealogical imperative that explicitly excludes homosexuality. I track how Kenyatta develops his understanding of ethno-nationalism as a gendered and heteronormative structure while editing the Kikuyu-language newspaper Muigwithania in the late 1920s and argue that Facing Mount Kenya extends this ethno-nationalist project while also engaging the ethno-diasporic structures Kenyatta engaged as an activist and student in London in the mid-to-late 1930s. Kenyatta tries to use ethnicity—specifically, Kikuyu identity—to disengage from black diasporic histories of thingification. Thus, his work offers an important window for examining how African studies continues to reject the role of colonial modernity in forging ideas of global blackness. Kenyatta wrote Facing Mount Kenya as Bronislaw Malinowski’s student at the London School of Economics and as part of a vibrant, London-based black diaspora collective that included C.L.R. James, George Padmore, and Amy Garvey. I draw from these disciplinary and political contexts to argue that Facing Mount Kenya frames its ethno-nationalist and ethno-diasporic project within the intimate terms established within black diasporic circles. Despite Kenyatta’s resistance to “thingification” as a frame, Facing Mount Kenya explicitly addresses sexological paradigms advanced by Havelock Ellis and Malinowski and embedded within colonial modernity’s logics. I am especially interested in how Kenyatta discusses frottage among young people (ombani na ngweko) as a model for thinking about ethnicity as constant rubbing, and I argue that ombani na ngweko provides Kenyatta with a model for engaging the ethno-national and the ethno-diasporic.

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Bryan, M. A. "Kikuyu Group." In The Bantu Languages of Africa. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315104959-55.

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Doyle, Shane. "Peer learning and health-related interventions." In The Anthropological Demography of Health. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862437.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the role of peer education in the transmission of health-related information in Kenya and Uganda. It focuses particularly on knowledge transmission around family planning and malnutrition, and concentrates on three ethnic groups, the Ganda, Kikuyu, and Luo. The chapter considers the uneven relationship between formal education and changes in health-related behaviours. By focusing on learning rather than teaching, the chapter places emphasis on the context, language, and practice. The chapter observes how behaviours have been adapted through the use of concepts and logics that connect to and resonate with individuals’ worldviews and felt needs, even if they do not immediately replicate these. It notes, however, that this process of vernacularization of biomedical concepts and practices is neither smooth nor organic. In the case studies analysed within the chapter, the translation of family planning and nutritional programmes varied in terms of both its success in aligning local and external goals and the level of engagement of medical organizations. Particular significance is placed on the role of peer associations as venues for the transmission of usable knowledge. The chapter notes that the effectiveness of peer learning through associations was shaped by the historical development of each society’s associational life from the late colonial into the postcolonial periods.

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"“She Worships at the Kikuyu Church”: The Influence of Scottish Missionaries on Language in Worship and Education among African Christians." In Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa. BRILL, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004276901_015.

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Schwarz, Florian. "Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu." In Focus Strategies in African Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110199093.3.139.

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Myers-Scotton, Carol. "Introduction." In Duelling Languages. Oxford University PressOxford, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198240594.003.0001.

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Abstract At some time or another, many readers of this volume have shaken their heads in amazement at overhearing speakers who were carrying out a conversation in two languages, apparently freely drawing from both linguistic systems at will. Some readers themselves produce such conversations regularly. Such naturally occurring conversations on everyday topics are the subject of this study. These conversations are frequent all over the world wherever the participants are bilinguals, from Puerto Rican secretaries rapidly alternating Spanish and English while strolling on lunch-break on the sidewalks of New York City, to Kikuyu market vendors in Nairobi, Kenya, judiciously adding phrases in Luo to their Swahili while wooing a Luo-speaking customer, to university professors in Tamil Nadu, India, interchanging English and Tamil when relating what happened at a recent academic conference.

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Conference papers on the topic "Kikuyu language"

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Lin, Liwei, Gus Xia, Yixiao Zhang, and Junyan Jiang. "Arrange, Inpaint, and Refine: Steerable Long-term Music Audio Generation and Editing via Content-based Controls." In Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-24}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/851.

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Controllable music generation plays a vital role in human-AI music co-creation. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating high-quality music, their focus on autoregressive generation limits their utility in music editing tasks. To bridge this gap, To address this gap, we propose a novel approach leveraging a parameter-efficient heterogeneous adapter combined with a masking training scheme. This approach enables autoregressive language models to seamlessly address music inpainting tasks. Additionally, our method integrates frame-level content-based controls, facilitati

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