Acoustic Study of Akan Nasals

According to Akpanglo-Nartey (2006:6), a major concern of all language teachers is that they present the structure of the language(s) they teach as truthful as possible. This means that an accurate description of the language must be available to the language teacher at all levels of grammar including, the phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic levels. The main purpose of this book is to give acoustic description of Akan nasals by means of spectrographic analysis within the framework of quantal theory, in order to resolve the problems of Akan nasals at different word positions, especially the alveolar and velar nasals at word-final, so that language teachers could apply them to language teaching and leaning. It discusses nasals at different word positions. duration, dialectal differences and similarities,as well as gender characteristics of nasals at different word positions.

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Mr Lawrence Bosiwah holds M.Phil in Applied Linguistics, University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana. Currently he is a Lecturer in the Department of Ghanaian Languages and Linguistics, University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana.