Fiona Mc Laughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 637071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Mc Laughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Mc Laughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MC LAUGHLIN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0313-5499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Saharan archive and its afterlives
From Murambi
In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Here, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation and a compelling afterword by …
Linguistic warscapes of northern Mali
In this paper I show that public writing (and its effacement) during a recent period of crisis in northern Mali constituted a powerful tool by which various factions attempted to inscribe political hegemony on the linguistic warscapes of three cities: Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu. The warscapes of these Saharan cities are linguistically complex: they are written in multiple languages, primarily French, Arabic and Tamasheq, and involve three different…
Senegalese digital repertoires in superdiversity
Mediation and the Performance of Religious Authority in Senegal
On the origins of urban Wolof
Based on evidence from a French-Wolof phrase book published in Senegal in 1864, this article makes the case that urban Wolof, a variety of the language characterized by significant lexical borrowing from French, is a much older variety than scholars have generally claimed. Historical evidence suggests that urban Wolof emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries in the coastal island city of Saint-Louis du Sénégal, France's earliest African settlement …
Voiceless implosives in Seereer-Siin
This paper provides articulatory and acoustic data on voiceless implosive stops in Seereer-Siin, an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo family spoken in Senegal. Seereer is characterized by pairs of voiced and voiceless implosive stops in three places of articulation. These pairs are phonemically contrastive in lexical items. Oral air pressure measurements from Seereer stops uphold Clements & Osu's (2002) proposal that implosives and other non-e…
Consonant mutation and reduplication in Seereer-Siin
Among the many types of non-concatentative morphemes are auto- segments or floating features which, in order to be realised phonologically, must attach to a root node in the stem. Akinlabi (1996) terms this process FEATURAL AFFIXATION. Featural affixes are of particular interest for models of reduplication, which make varying predictions as to whether or not they will be copied. In segmental models such as that of Marantz (1982), where nothing ot…
In the Name of God i wIll Sing Again, Mawdo Malik the Good
Marabouts in Senegalese popular music In recent years a new genre of popular song devoted to the praise of marabouts or Sufi leaders has emerged on the Senegalese musical horizon. Almost every Senegalese popular singer, including international stars like Youssou Ndour and Baaba Maal, has a repertoire that includes laudatory songs to leaders within the various Sufi tariqas that claim followings in Senegal. The emergence of this new genre of song i…
Haalpulaar identity as a response to Wolofization∗
In the Name of God i wIll Sing Again, Mawdo Malik the Good
Marabouts in Senegalese popular music In recent years a new genre of popular song devoted to the praise of marabouts or Sufi leaders has emerged on the Senegalese musical horizon. Almost every Senegalese popular singer, including international stars like Youssou Ndour and Baaba Maal, has a repertoire that includes laudatory songs to leaders within the various Sufi tariqas that claim followings in Senegal. The emergence of this new genre of song i…
Senegalese digital repertoires in superdiversity
On the origins of urban Wolof
Based on evidence from a French-Wolof phrase book published in Senegal in 1864, this article makes the case that urban Wolof, a variety of the language characterized by significant lexical borrowing from French, is a much older variety than scholars have generally claimed. Historical evidence suggests that urban Wolof emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries in the coastal island city of Saint-Louis du Sénégal, France's earliest African settlement …
From Murambi
In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Here, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation and a compelling afterword by …
A Saharan archive and its afterlives
Voiceless implosives in Seereer-Siin
This paper provides articulatory and acoustic data on voiceless implosive stops in Seereer-Siin, an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo family spoken in Senegal. Seereer is characterized by pairs of voiced and voiceless implosive stops in three places of articulation. These pairs are phonemically contrastive in lexical items. Oral air pressure measurements from Seereer stops uphold Clements & Osu's (2002) proposal that implosives and other non-e…
Haalpulaar identity as a response to Wolofization∗
Consonant mutation and reduplication in Seereer-Siin
Among the many types of non-concatentative morphemes are auto- segments or floating features which, in order to be realised phonologically, must attach to a root node in the stem. Akinlabi (1996) terms this process FEATURAL AFFIXATION. Featural affixes are of particular interest for models of reduplication, which make varying predictions as to whether or not they will be copied. In segmental models such as that of Marantz (1982), where nothing ot…
In the Name of God i wIll Sing Again, Mawdo Malik the Good
Marabouts in Senegalese popular music In recent years a new genre of popular song devoted to the praise of marabouts or Sufi leaders has emerged on the Senegalese musical horizon. Almost every Senegalese popular singer, including international stars like Youssou Ndour and Baaba Maal, has a repertoire that includes laudatory songs to leaders within the various Sufi tariqas that claim followings in Senegal. The emergence of this new genre of song i…
Voiceless implosives in Seereer-Siin
This paper provides articulatory and acoustic data on voiceless implosive stops in Seereer-Siin, an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo family spoken in Senegal. Seereer is characterized by pairs of voiced and voiceless implosive stops in three places of articulation. These pairs are phonemically contrastive in lexical items. Oral air pressure measurements from Seereer stops uphold Clements & Osu's (2002) proposal that implosives and other non-e…
On the origins of urban Wolof
Based on evidence from a French-Wolof phrase book published in Senegal in 1864, this article makes the case that urban Wolof, a variety of the language characterized by significant lexical borrowing from French, is a much older variety than scholars have generally claimed. Historical evidence suggests that urban Wolof emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries in the coastal island city of Saint-Louis du Sénégal, France's earliest African settlement …
Mediation and the Performance of Religious Authority in Senegal
Senegalese digital repertoires in superdiversity
Linguistic warscapes of northern Mali
In this paper I show that public writing (and its effacement) during a recent period of crisis in northern Mali constituted a powerful tool by which various factions attempted to inscribe political hegemony on the linguistic warscapes of three cities: Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu. The warscapes of these Saharan cities are linguistically complex: they are written in multiple languages, primarily French, Arabic and Tamasheq, and involve three different…
From Murambi
In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Here, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation and a compelling afterword by …
A Saharan archive and its afterlives
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