Eastern linguistics and literature

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Biodiversity as a Dominant Force in Shaping Ethnic Music Styles 生物多样性:塑造民族音乐风格的主导力量

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
Our findings show that plant, bird, and mammal diversity considerably shape musical features such as vocal range and ornamental sounds, more so than geography or lifestyle. Our study provides the first empirical evidence linking biodiversity to ethnic music styles. Protecting biodiversity, the musical and cultural will be protected.
Wenchen Song, Yifan Xue, Rui Li
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Collapse of genitive and benefactive case in Ecuadorian Quechua?

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
In Ecuadorian Quechua the markers for genitive and benefactive case have become indistinguishable in form: both are basically -pak. This squib discusses the issue whether there has also been a merger in the underlying representation, or whether they ...
Muysken, Pieter
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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
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‘Hopeful’ directions for writing centres in South Africa: From safe spaces to transitional sites of articulating practice

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017
I shall orientate the discussion of the directions of writing centres in South Africa around two beginnings. The first is the 1995 conference at the University of the Western Cape at which representatives from universities across the country discussed ...
Nichols, Pamela
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Understanding youth preferences for a mentorship program for celiac disease: A qualitative study

JPGN Reports, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Celiac disease (CeD) is an autoimmune condition triggered by gluten ingestion that causes intestinal inflammation and multiple symptoms. Management requires strict adherence to a gluten‐free diet (GFD), yet youth with CeD on a GFD report lower quality of life (QoL) and higher rates of depression and anxiety.
Ashley L. Dunn +6 more
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, 2015
Aimes: Vocabulary, written or oral, may potentially mirror the attitudes, emotionality, thinking styles, mentality and cultural tendencies among people. This research aimed to scrutinise the emotion-related words (ERWs) vs.
Pournaseh, M +4 more
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Eastern Europe -Nationalism and Ethnicity - Working Papers Portal

, 2016
Proposal to create a web portal intended to host articles, conference papers, book chapters and edited e-books of primary sources currently in progress in Romanian history, literature, library and information science, philosophy, linguistics, and as well
Burcica, Pompilia, Hitchins, Keith
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The mosaic evolution of Left Dislocation in Xhosa

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016
This paper demonstrates that the status of Clitic LD in Xhosa is a result of the mosaic evolution of Xhosa grammar. It emerges as an accumulation and combination of two more individual, distinct and, at least, initially separated developments and ...
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson +2 more
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Teaching of Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) : a study of the communicative approach in relation to Arabic

, 2012
The study is concerned with the problem of how to improve the teaching of Arabic as a foreign or a second language. It lays down some of the essential foundation-work necessary for bringing about systematic and constructive improvements in the ...
Jadwat, Ayoob Y.
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