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Mountain linguistics

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020
Abstract Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America ...
Matthias Urban
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Flora in Beja Lexicon

Folia Orientalia, 2021
In the present contribution the Beja botanical terminology is analyzed from the point of view of semantic motivation. The study is limited only to the unborrowed part of the botanical lexicon (with some exceptions), together 76 terms. First 51 terms are
Václav Blažek
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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology

Folia Orientalia
The contribution concentrates on the kinship terminology in Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages. The first aim is a summarisation of all relevant lexical data including all dialects and from all available ...
Václav Blažek
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Is Guanche Berber?

Studia Orientalia Electronica
Guanche is an extinct language or languages spoken by the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. Although it is widely assumed that their language belonged to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic languages, this has not been adequately tested.
Zev Brook
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Emergenz und Genese der Tonalität im Tschadischen: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte Nordostafrikas

Folia Orientalia
The Chadic languages, numbering approximately 150 and spoken in central Sudan, did not—as members of the Afroasiatic phylum—originally dispose and make use of the structural feature of tonality.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
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An Excerpt from the ‘Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Natural Phenomena, Time and Geographical Terminology’

Folia Orientalia
The contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Investigating Valency in Causative Verb Derivational Mechanisms: The Case of the Oromo Language [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This paper examines verb derivation in Oromo, focusing on how causative morphological suffixes such as -s-, -sis-, and -sisiis- alter verb valency and argument structure.
Ayub Ismael Jarso
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.
Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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’’Protolanguages’ vs. Linguistic Networks Across Language Branches’. A Basic Inventory for Relations of Concepts in Prehistoric States of Linguistic Communication

Limbaj si Context, 2014
The following is a study of the representation of the reflexes of the roots of the Borean language family in the Eurasiatic, Afroasiatic, Sino-Caucasian, Austric, and Amerindian language families.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition

Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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