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Challenging deficit ideologies in Spanish heritage language policies and programs
Foreign Language Annals, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 944-961, Winter 2024.Abstract This study analyzes the programs and policies for Spanish heritage language (SHL) students in Iowa high schools. Previous research suggests that SHL students do not enjoy equitable educational experiences in Spanish language classrooms, which are often taught by and designed for traditional second language learners.
David Cassels Johnson +2 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
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Yesterday's “lake” endures in its name—The etymology of lake names
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 1-9, February 2024.Abstract The global language of limnology is English, but most of our study objects do not have English names. Here, I compare 57,000 lake names in a lake‐rich, non‐English speaking country, that is, Sweden, with a previous analysis of 83,000 lakes in the conterminous United States. The diversity of lake name appellations is strikingly different.
Lars Tranvik
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Le nom propre en chinois. Essai de morphosyntaxe
Corela, 2005 The author presents some basic characteristics of the Chinese language and Chinese writing, including the pinyin romanization of this language. First of all, there is no space between words, no Capital letters, nothing, to distinguish Proper Names and ...
Pierre de La Robertie
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The Hlengwe people of Zimbabwe constitute one of the four sections of the Hlengwe subgroup of the Tsonga – an ethnic group found in four Southern African countries that include Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland.
Mandla D. Mathebula +1 more
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A helynév-standardizáció terminológiájáról [PDF]
, 2012 On the terminology of geographical names standardization The first part of the paper presents (i) geographical names standardization as a sub-field of language standardization, (ii) the importance of geographical names standardization as ...
Bölcskei, Andrea
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Speaking Up or Staying Silent? Citizens’ Engagement of Pro-Biafra Protests and Farmers-Herders Crises in the User-generated Content of Selected Nigerian Online Newspapers [PDF]
, 2020 The public space provided by the Web 2.0 technologies where citizens freely interact and discuss public issues such as politics, security and national unity is one of the beauties of modern democracy. However, this freedom has produced some counter-value
Lasisi, Mutiu Iyanda +1 more
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The influence of the Kuroshio Current on place naming on Green Island, Taiwan
Island Studies Journal, 2018 Green Island off the southeast coast of Taiwan is located along the Kuroshio Current in the western Pacific Ocean. Before the end of Second World War, a variety of place names for Green Island in different languages implied a connection to the Kuroshio ...
Peter Kang
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–1100
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 408-414, February 2026.
James Chetwood
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First National Scientific Congress on Geographical Names, Zadar and Krapanj, October 23 and 24, 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 For the first time in Croatia, the University of Zadar and the Croatian Geographic Society organized a national conference on geographical names. The conference had a series of scientific and professional lectures at the ceremonial hall of the University
Martina Triplat Horvat, Robert Župan
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