Social Behaviors of Foreign Language Teachers at Anatolian High Schools in Turkey
AbstractThe purpose of this study is to assess in-class behaviors of Foreign Language Teachers working at Anatolian High Schools in terms of social aspects. Accordingly, 18 teachers who were working during 2010-2011 academic year were interviewed.Participating teachers stated that they mimed new vocabulary through gestures, cared about making eye ...
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The linguistic relationships between Greek and the Anatolian languages
This thesis investigates the issue of prehistoric and historical language contact between speakers of Greek and speakers of the Anatolian languages. It is the first systematic attempt to understand to what extent Greek and the languages belonging to the Anatolian branch of Indo-European (Hittite and Luwian in primis) influenced each other between the ...
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A Study Of Anatolian High Schools’ 9th Grade English Language Curriculum In Relation To The CEFR
The aim of this study is to understand the main principles of the CEFR and to what extent Anatolian High Schools’ 9th grade EFL curriculum meet the principles advocated in that document. Hence, document analysis was used as a method to seek answers to the research questions set by a comparative analysis of the CEFR and Anatolian High Schools’ 9 th ...
Zorba, Mehmet, Arıkan, Arda
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Phrase Structure and Ancient Anatolian languages Methodology and challenges for a Luwian syntactic annotation [PDF]
For the Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) funded project “SLUW – A computer aided study of the (morpho)syntax of Luwian” a collection of phrase structure trees from the Luwian corpus is currently being prepared. Luwian is a language belonging to the Anatolian branch of Indo-European; its structures are different from those of English and the language ...
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The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe. [PDF]
Lazaridis I +205 more
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Ancient Anatolian languages and cultures in contact
This paper contains a review of the methodological and theoretical frameworks that have been developed to deal with the study of language contact and linguistic areas. In the second part, examples of the combined linguistic and cultural-historical approach to ancient contact areas for phenomena in reciprocal direction is proposed, with particular ...
COTTICELLI, PAOLA, GIUSFREDI, FEDERICO
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The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics. [PDF]
Gavashelishvili A +4 more
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Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene. [PDF]
Stoneking M +5 more
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Early ships and the spread of Indo-European and Anatolian languages
This paper proposes that ships may have played a much more significant role in the spread of Proto-Indo-European speaking peoples than has hitherto been thought, and that the Black Sea served as an early conduit (and not, as previously assumed, a barrier) for these people. I wil do so by highlighting the avaialble archaeological and linguistic evidence
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“Initial-a-final”, Luwian low vowels, and language contact in the Syro-Anatolian world
Abstract The Anatolian hieroglyphic inventory features two phonetic signs conventionally translated as “a”: 〈a〉 = L. 450 and 〈a〉 = L. 19. Their distribution has eluded explanation due to the complicated conventions governing the use of the 〈a〉 sign, which can be placed at the end of a word (“initial-a-final”), replaced with 〈a〉 (“a ...
Burgin, James M., Yakubovich, Ilya
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