Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages
Liames, 2020 Resenha do livro “Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages”, organizado por Simon E. Overall; Rosa Vallejos; Spike Gildea (2018). Este é uma coletânea de 14 capítulos adequadamente selecionados dos 32 trabalhos apresentados na “Conferência ...
Angel Corbera Mori +1 more
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2000–2025: A Quarter of a Century of Studies on Pet Ownership in the Amazon—Epidemiological Implications for Public Health [PDF]
PathogensAnthropogenic pressures in the Amazon Basin are reshaping human–animal–environment interactions and increasing zoonotic disease risk. Within this One Health context, domestic dogs and cats are underrecognized contributors to pathogen circulation at the ...
Coline J. Vanderhooft +3 more
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Nurse-community health mediator pairs: a promising model for promoting the health of populations in remote areas of the French Amazon [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthMulticultural Amazonian populations in remote areas of French Guiana face challenges in accessing healthcare and preventive measures. They are geographically and administratively isolated. Health mediation serves as an interface between vulnerable people
Mélanie Gaillet +15 more
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Decolonizing mental health: how native languages reshape depression network architecture in 31,276 Peruvians [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTo date, no studies have investigated the effect of native language on depressive symptom networks. To address this gap, we examined depression symptom network structure across four major cultural-linguistic groups in Peru (Castellano, Quechua, Aymara ...
Javier A. Flores-Cohaila +7 more
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KAHD: Katukinan-Arawan-Harakmbut Database (Pre-release)
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2022 Katukinan, Arawan, and Harakmbut are small language families spoken in south-western Amazonia. These families have received some attention, but there are no consistently transcribed and machine-readable datasets available for them. We address this lacuna
Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi +2 more
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Differential place marking beyond place names: Evidence from two Amazonian languages
Glossa, 2022 Not all spatial adjuncts behave alike. In some languages, certain spatial adjuncts display different marking or different combinatorial possibilities than others. Recent functional-typological studies make two claims about this differential place marking
Amalia Horan Skilton, Karolin Obert
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Towards an agenda to investigate language development in an indigenous group in the Amazon
Revista Linguística, 2022 The present work advances a research agenda within the broader field of language and cognition for the study of the expression of numerical concepts in early development.
Claudia Uller, Marília Facó Soares
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Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations
Scientific Reports, 2021 We test the hypothesis that a specific anatomical feature, the dental malocclusion associated with reduced dental wear, causes languages to adapt by relying more heavily on labiodental consonants.
Caleb Everett, Sihan Chen
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Parsing particles in Wa’ikhana
Revista Linguística, 2020 This article analyzes the use of several response particles in face-to-face interaction in Wa’ikhana, an East Tukano language of northwestern Amazonia.
Nicholas Williams +2 more
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Mayna, the lost Kawapanan language
Liames, 2015 The origins of the Mayna language, formerly spoken in northwest Peruvian Amazonia, remain a mystery for most scholars. Several discussions on it took place in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; however, none arrived at a consensus.
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
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