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Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages. Linguistic and Anthropological Studies with Special Emphasis on the Languages and Cultures of the Andean-Amazonian Border Area.

open access: yesLiames, 2012
O livro “Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages” é o quinto número da série INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA (ILLA), que edita a Universidade de Leiden.
Antônio Almir Silva Gomes
doaj   +1 more source

On the defence of responsible human judgement in peer review

open access: yesThe Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
Abstract Peer review is essential for scientific progress. When it works well, it combines expertise, fairness, proportionality, skepticism, generosity, and discretion. When it fails, it becomes a theatre for egotistical display, laziness, coercion, and, lately, reliance on artificial intelligence tools. Editors, reviewers, and authors must join forces
João B. P. Soares, Thomas A. Adams II
wiley   +1 more source

Na(t)ive orthographies and language endangerment: Two case studies from Siberia

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2006
Poster from the 2006 LSA annual meeting.
K. David Harrison, Gregory Anderson
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the US Bridgebuilding Field: Situating Organizations in the Ecosystem of Social Change

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ecosystem of bridge‐building initiatives in the United States. Drawing on an original database of 223 organizations, interviews with 7 staff across 6 organizations, and a literature review related to bridge‐building, polarization, and collective action, we first describe the range of existing initiatives and their ...
Gabrielle Mathews, Karen Ross
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the relatedness of the endangered Dogon languages

open access: yesLiterary and Linguistic Computing, 2013
In this article we apply up-to-date methods of quantitative language comparison, inspired by algorithms successfully applied in bioinformatics to decode DNA and determine the genetic relatedness of humans, to language data in an attempt to shed light on the current situation of a family of languages called Dogon, which are spoken in Mali, West Africa ...
Moran, Steven; Prokic, Jelena
openaire   +1 more source

Educating agents of change: Investigating curricula to foster sustainability competencies in university

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are ...
I. Södervik   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ecological U‐Turn in Nordic Forestry: Policy Learning, Measurement, and the Retrenchment of Ecological Ambitions

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, environmental policy has shifted toward ecosystem protection and biodiversity conservation, a development often described as an ecological turn. This article argues that in practice this turn has taken the form of an ecological “U‐turn,” as environmental ambitions are subordinated to production‐oriented objectives.
Gisle Andersen   +2 more
wiley   +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

Tajik-Wakhi language contact

open access: yesOrientalia Suecana, 2022
The present study of language contact between the Tajik (West-Iranian) and Wakhi (East-Iranian) languages spoken in Tajikistan has been undertaken from a synchronic perspective.
Jaroslava Obrtelová
doaj  

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