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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
wiley   +1 more source

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Another attempt at a chronology for Grassmann’s Law in Greek [PDF]

, 2015
This article takes another look at the chronology of Grassmann's Law (GL). It investigates the different dating suggestions - Indo-European, pre-Mycenaean, post-Mycenaean, post-Homeric - and assesses them critically.
De Decker, Filip
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Assessing Ethnic Prejudice Moral Disengagement and Intercultural Sensitivity in Middle Childhood: Development and Pilot Use of an AI‐Supported Narrative Instrument

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Middle childhood represents a crucial developmental stage in which ethnic biases often emerge and solidify, potentially leading to peer exclusion or harassment. Recent research highlights the role of moral disengagement in ethnic‐related harassment and identifies intercultural competences as crucial for counteracting prejudicial peer ...
Efthymia Penderi, George Zografos, Lefteris Moussiades, Antonis Sapountzis   +3 more
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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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Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 528-564, June 2026.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža, Tetiana Tytko   +3 more
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Etnolingvistiniai santykiai priešistorinėje Šiaurės rytų Europoje

Baltistica, 2011
ETHNOLINGUISTIC  SITUATION IN THE PREHISTORIC NORTH-EAST  EUROPESummaryThe hitherto known facts allow to state that in the period between the disintegration of Indo-European community and the expansion of Mongolian-Turkic peoples four groups of langua ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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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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Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio‐cultural and economic predictors

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract In an increasingly globalized world challenged by multiple social problems, global social identifications (GSIs, e.g., with all humanity) are concepts of growing interest. Although such identifications can be affected by the cultural contexts in which they are manifested, research on them remains largely confined to Western, Educated ...
Katarzyna Hamer, Marta Penczek, Karolina Marcinkowska, Bartek Nowak, Katarzyna Branowska, David Sparkman, Laura S. Loy, Maria Baran, Ayu Okvitawanli, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Justin D. Hackett, Paul Bertin, Margarida Carmona, Rita Guerra, Anna Wlodarczyk, Grace Akello, Flavia Albarello, Mujeeba Ashraf, Maja Bednarowicz, Liang Beixiang, Nora Benningstad, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Elirea Bornman, Janine Bosak, Ernest Darkwah, Sylvain Delouvée, Stephanie J. Eder, Violeta Enea, Augustin Espinosa, Edgardo Etchezahar, Laura J. Ferris, Alla A. Gudzovskaya, Keltouma Guerch, Joep Hofhuis, Matthew J. Hornsey, David Igbokwe, Manuel L. Ibarra, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Krzysztof Kaniasty, Gabriella J. Kengyel, Hamid Khanipour, Paul Labor, Aline Venceslau Vieira Lima, Oleksandra Loshenko, Karolina Mazurowska, Keren K. Mintz, Lucas Monzani, Satoshi Moriizumi, Andrew B. Moynihan, Mohammed Mubarique, Radó P. Nagy, Kenzo Nera, Boglárka Nyúl, James Osinde, Emrah Özsoy, Jorge Palacio, Ondrey Pešout, Anna‐Maija Pirttilä‐Backman, Vivien Pong, Erico Rentería, Dayana Restrepo, Adil Samekin, Hilah Segal‐Klein, Heyla A. Selim, Denis Sindic, Alexa Spence, Sabrina Stöckli, Kim‐Pong Tam, Joaquín Ungaretti, Beata Urbańska, Angela Wang, Illia Yahiiaiev, Yelena Yemelyanova   +72 more
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On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper it is argued that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency to avoid voiced sibilant affricates. This tendency is explained by appealing to the phonetic properties of the sounds, and in particular to their aerodynamic ...
Zygis, Marzena
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