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Language shift, bilingualism and the future of Britain's Celtic languages. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2010 ‘Language shift’ is the process whereby members of a community in which more than one language is spoken abandon their original vernacular language in favour of another. The historical shifts to English by Celtic language speakers of Britain and Ireland are particularly well-studied examples for which good census data exist for the most recent 100–120 ...
Kandler A, Unger R, Steele J.
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The rise of gemination in Celtic [version 2; peer review: 4 approved] [PDF]
Open Research Europe, 2023 This study investigates systematically the emergence and establishment of geminate consonants as a phonological class in the Celtic branch of Indo-European.
David Stifter
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Tracing the spread of Celtic languages using ancient genomics
bioRxivCeltic languages, including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are today restricted to the Northern European Atlantic seaboard. However, between three and two thousand years before present (BP), Celtic was widely spoken across most of Europe ...
McColl H +10 more
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The Impact of Manner Adverb on the Gestural Embodiment of Actions Described by Literal and Metaphoric Sentences [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 The aim of this study was to examine the impact of manner adverbs on the gestural embodiment of actions that are described by literal and metaphoric sentences. We asked a group of participants to read and then orally retell four stories.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +4 more
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A Review of Studies Supporting Metaphorical Embodiment [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 This paper presents a review of studies that have provided evidence supporting metaphorical embodiment. These studies are divided into three categories of behavioral, neuroimaging, and corpus studies. After summing up the findings of these studies, it is
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +5 more
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The rise of gemination in Celtic [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Open Research Europe, 2023 This study investigates systematically the emergence and establishment of geminate consonants as a phonological class in the Celtic branch of Indo-European.
David Stifter
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The Celtic Languages in the Сравнительные Словари (1787–1789): An Introduction
Roczniki Humanistyczne, 2021 In the 1780s, a multilingual dictionary was published in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire, under the editorship of the German Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811).
Mark Ó Fionnáin
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Converses with the Grave: Three Modern Gaelic Laments
Genealogy, 2021 Within Scottish deathways, the Gaelic lament has long served as a poignant and powerful outlet for loss. In this creative piece, three Canadian-born, Gaelic-speaking poets present their previously unpublished Gaelic laments along with English ...
Chelsey MacPherson +3 more
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What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English
SELIM, 2023 McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian ...
Cynthia L. Allen
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Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The linguistic study of Celtic divinities attested on Latin inscriptions has proved instrumental in disclosing a number of facts about ancient religion, the relationship with the Roman rule, and the spread of indigenous or syncretic cults. In fact, minor
Blanca María Prósper +1 more
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