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Osobní zájmena ve fino-sámských jazycích v uralské perspektivě
In the article the personal pronouns of all Uralic languages are collected and summarized from the point of view of their declension. Personal pronouns of Balto-Finnic and Saamic languages are collected and analyzed on the basis of their internal ...
Lucie Hofírková, Václav Blažek
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In Finnic languages, the height of a tall person is described by the adjectives pitkä, korkea, suuri, iso and tobie, or their dialectal variants. The first three occur through out the whole language group, carrying several meanings and serving to ...
Vilja Oja
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The »Modus Obliquus« In The Baltic Language Union: A Review of The Literature on The Field [PDF]
"THE »MODUS OBLIQUUS« IN THE BALTIC LANGUAGE AREA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON FINNO-UGRIAN AND INDOEUROPEAN VERB SYSTEMS SÁNDOR FÖLDVÁRI Postdoctoral researcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; Visitor lecturer, Department of Classical ...
Földvári, Sándor
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Training Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Morphological Inflection [PDF]
This work describes the UoE-LMU submission for the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 Shared Task on Universal Morphological Reinflection, Subtask 1: given a lemma and target morphological tags, generate the target inflected form.
Bergmanis, Toms +3 more
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Towards a typology of stop assibilation [PDF]
In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless ...
Hall, Tracy Alan, Hamann, Silke
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A journey of discovery through the Livonian world: the scholarly work of Tiit-Rein Viitso
This article presents a survey of Tiit-Rein Viitso’s studies on Livonian. Viitso has studied a variety of aspects of this southernmost Finnic language.
Tuuli Tuisk, Karl Pajusalu
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets [PDF]
Languages differ widely in the ways they encode time. I test the hypothesis that languages that grammatically associate the future and the present, foster future-oriented behavior. This prediction arises naturally when well-documented effects of language
M. Keith Chen
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The role of linguistics in language teaching: the case of two, less widely taught languages - Finnish and Hungarian [PDF]
This paper discusses the role of various linguistic sub-disciplines in teaching Finnish and Hungarian. We explain the status of Finnish and Hungarian at University College London and in the UK, and present the principle difficulties in learning and ...
Tarsoly, E., Valijärvi, R.
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Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord? [PDF]
Extensive multilingualism is one of the most important and fundamental principles of the European Union. However, a large number of official languages (currently 23) hinders communication and imposes substantial financial and legal costs.
Fidrmuc, Jan +2 more
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One-Shot Neural Cross-Lingual Transfer for Paradigm Completion
We present a novel cross-lingual transfer method for paradigm completion, the task of mapping a lemma to its inflected forms, using a neural encoder-decoder model, the state of the art for the monolingual task.
Cotterell, Ryan +2 more
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