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THE DYING PHENOMENON OF JAVANESE LANGUAGE USE IN ITS SPEECH COMMUNITY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper discusses the use of Javanese in its speech community. Nowadays more and more families use national language in their daily communication. Most parents (middle to high economic conditions) tend to use Indonesian to their children relating to
Sarosa, Teguh
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The relationship between Indigenous Peoples' lands and conservation: A systematic literature review

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract A growing body of peer‐reviewed literature is focused on the relationship between Indigenous Peoples' lands (Indigenous lands) and conservation outcomes. We performed a systematic review of this English reported peer‐reviewed literature (n = 111) to examine: the key characteristics; the conservation outcomes documented; the methods used in ...
William Nikolakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endangered songs and endangered languages.

open access: yes, 2003
It is widely reported in Australia and elsewhere that songs are considered by culture bearers to be the “crown jewels” of endangered cultural heritages whose knowledge systems have hitherto been maintained without the aid of writing. It is precisely these specialised repertoires of our intangible cultural heritage that are most endangered, even in a ...
Marett, Allan, Barwick, Linda
openaire   +1 more source

ÚJABB FEJLEMÉNYEK A NYELVI REVITALIZÁCIÓ KUTATÁSÁBAN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The article aims to present the newest trends in the research of language revitalization. It starts with outlining the most important periods of language revitalization activities and the role the linguists and sociolinguists played in reviving ...
Fazakas, Noémi
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From passion to illegality: Understanding succulent consumers' decision to participate in the illegal online wildlife trade

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The illegal wildlife trade represents a significant threat to biodiversity. Limited research has examined the illegal trade in succulents, plants characterized by their ability to store water in their leaves, stems or roots. The growing popularity of succulents has contributed to the emergence of illicit consumer practices.
Léanne Vincendon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Previous studies on a variety of languages have demonstrated that manual gesture is temporally aligned with prosodic prominence. However, the majority of these studies have been conducted on languages with word-level stress. In this paper, we investigate
Alessa Farinella   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Similarity or Difference as a Basis for Justice: Must Animals Be Like Humans to Be Legally Protected from Humans? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Justice may not require that animals be exactly the same as humans or that they have rights exactly coterminous with the rights of humans, but justice would require that animals receive protection in ways that match up with those similarities they share ...
Bryant, Taimie L.
core   +1 more source

The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endangered Languages: A Systematic Qualitative Study of Socio-Cultural Impacts and Revitalisation

open access: yesDarnioji daugiakalbystė
This study investigates endangered language preservation through three research questions: risk factors for endangerment, socio-cultural effects of language loss, and complexities in preservation and revitalisation.
Awal Abdul
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing grammatical documentation for endangered languages with graph-based meaning representation and Loopy Belief Propagation

open access: yesNatural Language Processing Journal
DIG4EL (Digital Inferential Grammars for Endangered Languages) is a method embodied in software designed to assist linguists and teachers in producing grammatical descriptions for endangered languages.
Sebastien Christian
doaj   +1 more source

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