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A Computational Approach to Identifying Cultural Keywords Across Languages

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract Distinctive aspects of a culture are often reflected in the meaning and usage of words in the language spoken by bearers of that culture. Keywords such as душа (soul) in Russian, hati (heart) in Indonesian and Malay, and gezellig (convivial/cosy/fun) in Dutch are held to be especially culturally revealing, and scholars have identified a number
Zheng Wei Lim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balto-Slavic acute

open access: yesBaltistica, 2018
There is no evidence for an acute as the phonetic reflex of a lengthened grade vowel in Balto-Slavic.
openaire   +1 more source

Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter’s Law

open access: yesPapers in Historical Phonology, 2018
Vowels are longer before voiced than voiceless obstruents in many languages. Work on how this effect interacts with aspiration has been limited. This study presents data from Hindi and Telugu on vowel duration and other acoustic characteristics as ...
Chelsea Sanker
doaj   +1 more source

From Proto-Indo-European to Slavic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A correct evaluation of the Slavic evidence for the reconstruction of the Indo- European proto-language requires an extensive knowledge of a considerable body of data.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Lithuanian tekéti and related formations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Erdvilas Jakulis’ thorough, detailed and comprehensive study (2004) is an important contribution to our reconstruction of the Balto-Slavic verbal system. The following remarks are intended to complement his findings from a Slavic perspective.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The loss of *g before *m in Proto-Slavic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper proposes a new sound rule for Proto-Slavic, according to which *g (from PIE *g, *gw, *gh, and *gwh) was lost before *m. This development was posterior to Winter’s law and the merger of voiced and aspirated stop in Slavic.
Matasović, Ranko
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On the origins of x in Slavic

open access: yesLinguistica Brunensia, 2013
This paper focuses on three regular sources of x in the Slavic languages. Beside the well-known source Pedersen's Law, there are two minor regular sources, namely the clusters *sk and *kH2.
Ondřej Šefčík
doaj  

The origin of Anatolian relations of the type keššar : kiššeran and Balto-Slavic relations of the type akmuo/kamy : akmeni/kamen[jer]

open access: yesLinguistica, 2008
Only anatolian relations of the type keššar : kiššeran and Balto-Slavic relations of the type akmuo/kamy : akmenį/kamenь still preserve the PIE paradigmatic innovation within the PIE holokinetic AP, caused by the comparable function (quo?) of the ...
Metka Furlan
doaj   +1 more source

Holger Pedersen's "Études lituaniennes" revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Holger Pedersen’s "Études lituaniennes" reflects the issues under discussion at the time of its publication (1933). Its five unequal chapters deal with the following topics: I.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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