A Contrastive Analysis of The Phonologies of Gedeo and Amharic
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wedekind, Klaus (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Erkihun, Luiseged | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-15T08:09:11Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:34:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-15T08:09:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:34:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Process of this st.udy has gom, through four main stages. ~h e first stage covers the introductory part of the p aper, ",hich deals with the statemen t of th8 proble!!'., t h e val ue of the study and its limitations. It also presents a literature revie\>' of prior worl<s on the phonologies of Gedeo and Amharic, on contras tive studies between AJ;Iharic anc. other Fthiopian language,q, and on the theori e s of Contrast~ive An alysis. The s e cond stage , \~hich includes chapters two and. three, is the description of the phonologies of Gedeo an::', )lITlharic. At this stags , the se9IDe nta lp honeme~ and the ir allophonic variants as well as their distributions in a "lord or pause group are described. The n on-segmental ele ments are also an a lysed systemat ica.lly . The third stage deals ,,11th the work of e rror p r edictions, based on the hypothesis of Contrastive lInalysis. This stage) .,hich covers the whole of t.he fourth chapter deals ',1i th thfl prediction of e rrors Bxpected to be mad e by Gecteo native spe ake rs learning ]\~aric. ThIS fourth s tage , which covers the whole of c hapter five and six, d e als wi.th e rror analysis to v e rify or falsify the prcCliction of e rrors hase n on Contrast.ivE' Analysls, and it presents a swnmary of the r e sults . I n this section ' . J the questions " which app roach of Contrastive Analysis shoulC'. we use? " and. " what are the actual areas of diff.i.culty for Gedeo native speakers l e arnin g Amharic?" will be ans~ler e tl. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/25482 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Contrastive Analysis | en_US |
| dc.title | A Contrastive Analysis of The Phonologies of Gedeo and Amharic | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |