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Mitochondrial DNA D-Loop Polymorphisms among the Galla Goats Reveals Multiple Maternal Origins with Implication on the Functional Diversity of the HSP70 Gene. [PDF]
Genet Res (Camb)Despite much attention given to the history of goat evolution in Kenya, information on the origin, demographic history, dispersal route, and genetic diversity of Galla goats remains unclear. Here, we examined the genetic background, diversity, demographic history, and population genetic variation of Galla goats using mtDNA D‐loop and HSP70 single ...
Masila EM +5 more
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The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract A classic example of the arbitrary relation between the way a word sounds and its meaning is that microorganism is a very long word that refers to a very small entity, whereas whale is a very short word that refers to something very big. This example, originally presented in Hockett's list of language's design features, has been often cited ...
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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Adding Visual Information to Improve Multimodal Machine Translation for Low‐Resource Language
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Machine translation makes it easy for people to communicate across languages. Multimodal machine translation is also one of the important directions of research in machine translation, which uses feature information such as images and audio to assist translation models in obtaining higher quality target languages.
Xiayang Shi +2 more
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Zamucoan Person Marking as a Perturbed System*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 265-288, August 2021., 2021 Abstract This paper analyzes the Zamucoan system of Person markers: personal pronouns, verbal and possessive inflection. Comparing the three documented languages (Ayoreo and Chamacoco, currently spoken, and extinct Old Zamuco), one can reconstruct for a very ancient stage of this language family an agglutinating structure for both personal pronouns and
Pier Marco Bertinetto
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Nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic
Afrika und Übersee, 2021 This paper contrasts the strategies for marking nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic, and offers some thoughts on their possible origin and development.
Matthew Harley
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Le nom du souverain dans les parlers « kotoko » du Cameroun
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021 The so-called “Kotoko” group is located mainly in the far north of Cameroon, and marginally in Chad and Nigeria. It is composed of small fortified kingdoms built primarily in the West of the Lower Chari and the Lower Logone.
Henry Tourneux
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Afrika und Übersee, 2020 Contact between the Tarokoid languages of Sur, Yangkam, Pe, Vaghat Cluster, Tarok and some Chadic languages found in southeast Plateau State of central Nigeria and its implications for the sketching of a history for the area is the main thesis of this ...
Selbut Longtau
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A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist
Linguistic Discovery, 2017 A Kushi-English-Hausa ...
Gian Claudio Batic
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Afrika und ÜberseeNdam (Eastern Chadic, ISO [ndm]) displays an array of seven or nine surface vowels. However, the distribution and behavior of these vowels, as evidenced from morphophonemic data, shows that the inventory can be reduced to two basic vowels, /ə/ and /a ...
James Roberts
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The Nilo-Saharan background of Chadic
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Christopher Ehret
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