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Learning the Manchu Writing System: The Role of Intra‐Symbol Processing in Orthography Acquisition
Manchu is a critically endangered language in China with fewer than 100 native users remaining. As the first empirical study on Manchu orthography acquisition, we focused on novice learners (n = 196) and examined visual complexity and symbol‐sound mapping complexity of Manchu symbol blocks.
Bai Li, Victoria Murphy, Sonali Nag
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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Language and Language Policy of Komi-Permyaks in the 1920-1930s
The article is devoted to the particularities of latinization policy of the written Komi Permyaks’ language in the 1930s. As some national and foreign researchers think, the processes of Latinization were most challenging for finno-ugric peoples of the ...
Mikhail S. Kamenskikh
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Improving Parents' Emotional Well‐Being in NICU: A Scoping Review
ABSTRACT Background Parents in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) face stress, anxiety and isolation, which affect their mental health and involvement in the care of their infants. Aim To analyse, summarise and compare the most recent scientific evidence on interventions in NICU aimed at parents in order to improve their emotional state.
Elena Paraíso‐Pueyo +7 more
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Capital Gains: Effects of Word Class and Sentence Position on Capitalization Use Across Age
ABSTRACT Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021–2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence‐initial words) and no‐cue control words.
Emilia Hawkey +2 more
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ABSTRACT The marketing literature has examined extensively consumer preferences between global and local brands. However, there remains a dearth of research on the topic in the context of vulnerable consumers with insecure self‐identities. Children largely embody insecure identities and, thus, there are several factors that can influence their global ...
Jelena Filipovic +2 more
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Alphabets used for Kazakh by İlminsky
The aim of the study is to analyze and evaluate the Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets used for Kazakh by Nikolay Ivanovich Ilminskiy. The alphabets discussed in the study are extracted from three separate publications of Ilminskiy.
Mesut
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Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War
ABSTRACT This article examines the construction of language ideologies on social media in the context of the use of Kazakh and Russian languages in Kazakhstan following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Through the analysis of Instagram and YouTube posts and comments from popular Kazakhstani bloggers and opinion‐makers, which were selected for the ...
Alina Kamalova
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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