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A Cross-Modal and Cross-lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning. [PDF]

Cogn Sci, 2022
Abstract The present paper addresses the study of non‐arbitrariness in language within a deep learning framework. We present a set of experiments aimed at assessing the pervasiveness of different forms of non‐arbitrary phonological patterns across a set of typologically distant languages.
de Varda AG, Strapparava C.
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A Novel Framework for Arabic Dialect Chatbot Using Machine Learning. [PDF]

Comput Intell Neurosci, 2022
With the advent of artificial intelligence and proliferation in the demand for an online dialogue system, the popularity of chatbots is growing on various industrial platforms. Their applications are getting widely noticed with intelligent tools as they are able to mimic human behavior in natural languages. Chatbots have been proven successful for many
Alhassan NA, Saad Albarrak A, Bhatia S, Agarwal P.   +3 more
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Acceptability of Emotionally Focused Therapy in Uganda: The Views of Mental Health Workers. [PDF]

J Marital Fam Ther
ABSTRACT Despite the international prominence of emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT), limited research exists on its acceptability among mental health workers, particularly those from contexts in Africa. This study explored the acceptability of EFCT among Ugandan mental health workers who completed the first‐ever 4‐day EFCT training in Uganda. We
Asiimwe R, Lesch E, Galukande P, Kasujja R.   +3 more
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Enset Landraces: Conservation, Distribution, and Use in an Enset-Based Agricultural System. [PDF]

Scientifica (Cairo)
Enset is a unique food security crop for more than 25% of the population in Ethiopia and serves as a food, animal feed, medicine, and fiber source, with significant resilience and environmental adaptability. Enset growing zones harbor several landraces, resulting from differences in natural selection, human selection, and cultural management practices.
Kibatu T, Feyissa T, Demissew S, Muleta D.   +3 more
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Persistence of Ancestral KhoeSan Mitochondrial Patterns in Contemporary South African Populations. [PDF]

Ann Hum Genet
Abstract Introduction Southern Africa has been inhabited by hunter‐gatherers for at least 20,000 years and has received diverse immigration flows in the last 2000 years. The original inhabitants have interacted with the pastoralist migrants from Eastern Africa (∼2000 ybp), followed by the southern Bantu migration arriving some 1000 ybp, and more ...
D'Amato ME, Ristow P, Livesey M, Heynes K, Huber N, Bravi C, Hansen AJ, Parson W.   +7 more
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Human ancestry correlates with language and reveals that race is not an objective genomic classifier [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2017
Genetic and archaeological studies have established a sub-Saharan African origin for anatomically modern humans with subsequent migrations out of Africa.
Jennifer L. Baker, Charles N. Rotimi, Daniel Shriner   +2 more
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A diachronic perspective on ‘prosodies’ in Central Chadic languages (Afroasiatic)

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Abstract The paper reports on generalisations drawn from the author’s historical analysis of a sample of some five thousand words, which reflect more than two hundred lexical items from up to sixty-six Central Chadic languages and language varieties.
H Ekkehard Wolff
exaly   +3 more sources

Disputed Translations from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (2015) Reconsidered: Some Notes on Gǝʿǝz Philology

Aethiopica, 2023
The present article was prompted by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes’s ‘Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros’ as published in a special issue of the Journal of ...
Michael Kleiner
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Gərma Awgəččäw Dämmäqä, ቋንቋና ነገድ በኢትዮጵያ, I: የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ማንነትና ቅድመታሪክ (ከቋንቋ አንፃር)

Aethiopica, 2021
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Maria Bulakh
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Gender and number morphology in Ethio-Eritrean semitic languages

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021
The vowel -ā can be identified as a marker of nominal and verbal plurality in different Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. The vowels -ā (feminine plural) and -ū (masculine plural) which are used for both internal and external plurals are, according to ...
Tesfay Tewolde Johannes
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