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Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo‐European
Abstract In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of pronominal politeness in the Indo‐European languages and demonstrate that the processes of change of pronominal systems related to politeness follow two evolutionary regimes, one inside the ‘Standard Average European’ (SAE) linguistic area and another outside of it.
Michael Dunn, Kate Bellamy
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Intuitively, some predicates have a better fit with certain arguments than others. Usage-based models of language emphasize the importance of semantic similarity in shaping the structuring of constructions (form and meaning).
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen +2 more
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The phonetic system is one of the most important aspects of the language. The study of the structure and features of this system allows tracing both the current state and the history of the development of a language.
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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Participation in sociolinguistic research
Abstract Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surrounding the participation of those involved and engaged in the research process.
Csanád Bodó +7 more
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József Szinnyei (1857–1943) [PDF]
As a successor of József Budenz, József Szinnyei was a dominant figure, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, of research on the Finno-Ugric languages in Hungary and of the associated teaching tasks at university level. He was an adherent
Honti, László
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Abstract Research has described several features shared between musical rhythm and speech or language, and experimental studies consistently show associations between performance on tasks in the two domains as well as impaired rhythm processing in children with language disorders.
Enikő Ladányi +2 more
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Introduction. In the languages of different systems, there are many cases when the morphemic structure of a word is not clear. As a result of a comparative analysis of a word with etymologically related words and their reconstructed stems and meanings ...
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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National in form, Putinist in content: minority institutions ‘outside politics’ [PDF]
Over the past three decades, Russia has developed a set of institutions for the management of ethno-linguistic diversity based on the principle of ‘national cultural autonomy’.
Prina, Federica
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The validity of the Language Environment Analysis system in two neonatal intensive care units
Abstract Aim To evaluate the validity of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system's automatic measures in two neonatal intensive care units supporting parent‐infant closeness, and in two Finno‐Ugric languages: Finnish and Estonian. Methods The sound environment of 70 very preterm infants was recorded for 16 h in the neonatal intensive care units
Eva Ståhlberg‐Forsén +7 more
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Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. [PDF]
Despite a burgeoning science of cultural evolution, relatively little work has focused on the population structure of human cultural variation. By contrast, studies in human population genetics use a suite of tools to quantify and analyse spatial and ...
Ross RM, Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD.
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