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The diachronic emergence of retroflex segments in three languages [PDF]

, 2009
The present study shows that though retroflex segments can be considered articulatorily marked, there are perceptual reasons why languages introduce this class into their phoneme inventory. This observation is illustrated with the diachronic developments
Hamann, Silke
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Current state of development of Eurocomprehension research [PDF]

, 2001
"Eurocomprehension" is the term used to describe European intercomprehension in Europe’s three major language families, the Romance, the Slavic and the Germanic. The aim of eurocomprehension is to achieve multilingualism conforming to EU lan­guage policy
Klein, Horst G.
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Pseudo-archaeology: The Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage [PDF]

, 2013
Heritage can be defined as the use of the past to construct ideas about identity in the present. The past that this definition references is most commonly linked to tangible objects, and therefore archaeological artifacts.
Bassett, Alecia
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C. C. Uhlenbeck on Indo-European, Uralic and Caucasian [PDF]

, 2010
In his early years, C. C. Uhlenbeck was particularly interested in the problem of the Indo-European homeland (1895, 1897). He rejected Herman Hirt’s theory (1892) that the words for ‘birch’, ‘willow’, ‘spruce’, ‘oak’, ‘beech’ and ‘eel’ point to Lithuania
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Diachronic Development in Isolation: The Loss of V2 Phenomena in Cimbrian [PDF]

, 2007
This paper deals with the syntactic development of Cimbrian, a German dialect, which was spoken for centuries in some enclaves in northern Italy. In particular, we argue that the ‘dismantlement’ of the V2 phenomenon is connected with a change concerning ...
Bidese, Ermenegildo, Tomaselli, Alessandra   +1 more
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“Can I have the recorder today?” Implications of Accidental Participatory Ethnography in Youth Research

Nordisk Tidsskrift for Ungdomsforskning
Many research projects seek to engage non-researchers in research designs and/or data collection. However, what happens when informants unprompted take the research design into their own hands?
Johanne Kirkeby
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Die germanische Mythosgestalt *Askiz in der Germania von Cornelius Tacitus und in altnordischen Quellen

Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2016
The work by Publius Cornelius Tacitus entitled De origine et situ Germanorum is an inexhaustible source of knowledge about ancient Germanic peoples, their culture, beliefs and even their mythology.
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Elwira Kaczyńska   +1 more
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Oblique subjects : a common germanic inheritance [PDF]

, 2005
Barddal, Johanna, Eythórsson, Thórhallur   +1 more
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Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents

, 2009
We introduce a new Bayesian model for hierarchical clustering based on a prior over trees called Kingman's coalescent. We develop novel greedy and sequential Monte Carlo inferences which operate in a bottom-up agglomerative fashion.
Daumé III, Hal, Roy, Daniel, Teh, Yee Whye   +2 more
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#INSTAPOETRY. POESIA POPULAR NO INSTAGRAM E SEUS AFFORDANCES*(PROPICIAMENTOS)

Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada
O artigo trata sobre poesia, cuja publicação se dá na plataforma de rede social Instagram. Essa instapoesia encontra grande reconhecimento em escala global e pertence aos fenômenos literários mais populares da atualidade, dentre os quais esse é ...
Niels Penke
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