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The Slings and Arrows of Comparative Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2018
In this Formal Comment the authors respond to objections to their previous Essay, reiterating that comparative linguistics is not an easy ...
Robert C. Berwick   +2 more
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CONSTANT DRIPPING WEARS AWAY A STONE. HOW HEIKKI E. S. MATTILA ESTABLISHED COMPARATIVE LEGAL LINGUISTICS [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2022
This article describes Heikki E.S. Mattila’s achievements in the area of comparative legal linguistics. It concentrates on the process of emergence of basic conceptual structure in Mattila’s work.
Marcus Galdia
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More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms

open access: yesOpen Mind, 2022
Morphological systems often reuse the same forms in different functions, creating what is known as syncretism. While syncretism varies greatly, certain cross-linguistic tendencies are apparent.
Carmen Saldana   +2 more
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Introduction: Fairy Tales and Other Horrors

open access: yesLiterature, 2023
In a Christmas 2017 interview with the British magazine Fortean Times, the celebrated Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro described ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘the original Cinderella’, and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as ‘a horror story’, before affirming that ...
Laura Tosi, Alessandro Cabiati
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its

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Morphosyntactic Skills Influence the Written Decoding Accuracy of Italian Children With and Without Developmental Dyslexia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Some types of developmental dyslexia (DD) are associated with morphology. Deep DD leads to morphological and semantic errors, and possible comorbidity with syntactic deficits; phonological-output-buffer DD causes problems in decoding longer ...
Emanuele Casani   +2 more
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul   +2 more
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Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training

open access: yesnpj Science of Learning, 2023
Problems in understanding speech in noisy environments are characteristic for age-related hearing loss. Since hearing aids do not mitigate these communication problems in every case, potential alternatives in a clinical rehabilitation plan need to be ...
Raffael Schmitt   +2 more
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COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS AND ITS HISTORY

open access: yes, 2021
The article discusses the problem of terminological differentiation of two disciplines as part of comparative linguistics, studying related languages in diachronic (compare historical linguistics) and in synchrony; for terminological marking of the ...
Kurbanov Davlatshokh Bakhtiyorovich
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From the Forgotten Russian Avant-Garde: An Unknown Acrostic by I.A.Aksenov Dedicated to K.A.Bol’shakov. (On IWL RAS Archival Materials) [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2016
This is the first publication of a hitherto unknown acrostic by an avant-garde poet, I. A. Aksenov. The poem was found in the archive of the Russian Union of Soviet Writers (VSSP) in the Manuscript Section of the Institute of World Literature (IWL). This
Alessandro Farsetti
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