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Is the Taxon of Altaic Languages Natural or Artificial? [PDF]

open access: yesLingua Posnaniensis, 2009
Is the Taxon of Altaic Languages Natural or Artificial?The article considers if the taxon of Altaic languages natural enough to call it a good classification. The more compact a taxon, the more natural it is. The article deals with the peculiarities of functioning of labial consonants in the languages of the Altaic language unity and the peculiarities ...
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About the Amount and Nature of Turkic-Mongolian and Turkic-Tungusic Lexical Relations in a New Perspective: the Role of the Theory of Genetic Relationship of the Altaic Languages in the Identification of Ancient Language Contacts

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article represents new facts concerning the problem of ancient language communications and facts confirming the interaction of Turkic languages with Mongolic and Tungus-Manchu ones.
Aleksey A. Burykin
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Pravoslávna misionárska lingvistika v Ruskom impériu (špecifiká a problémy žánru)

open access: yesSlavia
The article examines the phenomenon of missionary linguistics in the Russian Empire, shaped significantly by Russian state and church policies. Beginning in the late 18th century, three main genres of missionary linguistic literature
Katarína Džunková
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Sentential Word Order and the Syntax of Question Particles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Polar question particles in languages with VO word order pose a problem for the otherwise robust Final-Over-Final Constraint, which rules out a head-final phrase immediately dominating a head-initial phrase (Holmberg 2000).
Bailey, Laura R.
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Лингвистическая таксономия: компактность языковых подгрупп, групп и семей

open access: yesBaltistica, 2011
LINGUISTIC TAXONOMY: DENSITY OF LANGUAGE SUBGROUPS, GROUPS AND FAMILIESSummaryLanguage subgroups, groups, families and unities were investigated from the point of view of their dispersion in the way it was first proposed in (Тамбовцев 1986).
Юрий Алексеевич Тамбовцев
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Altaic Elements in the Chinese Variety of Tangwang: True and False Direct Loans

open access: yesLanguages
This paper foccusses on the Tangwang language, a Chinese variety spoken in southern Gansu that has been in contact with the Dongxiang language, a Mongolic language.
Julie Pauline Marie Lefort
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The weight of phonetic substance in the structure of sound inventories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the research field initiated by Lindblom & Liljencrants in 1972, we illustrate the possibility of giving substance to phonology, predicting the structure of phonological systems with nonphonological principles, be they listener-oriented (perceptual ...
Abry, Christian   +4 more
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AP17-OLR Challenge: Data, Plan, and Baseline

open access: yes, 2017
We present the data profile and the evaluation plan of the second oriental language recognition (OLR) challenge AP17-OLR. Compared to the event last year (AP16-OLR), the new challenge involves more languages and focuses more on short utterances. The data
Chen, Qing   +3 more
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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania

open access: yesMigracijske i etničke teme, 2000
In the first part of the paper, the author discusses some details pertaining to the Altaic languages and the location of the Altaic homeland. As to the key question of Altaic theory – i.e.
Emil Heršak
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