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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]
, 2010 There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines the aspirations, motivations and support needs of 15 young parents in South Australia with experiences of out‐of‐home care (OOHC) or homelessness. Most participants aimed to delay parenting to achieve financial stability, education and personal development, but faced unplanned pregnancies due to inadequate ...
Tim Moore, Stewart McDougall
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Medical terminology across the centuries: distinctive features of a chronological study in the field of ophthalmology [PDF]
Ibérica, 2006 This article deals with the comparison of the lexical features of two texts from a diachronic point of view. Interest in lexical comparison arises from the fact that the two texts belong to a specialised field within medicine –ophthalmology– and both can
María José Esteve Ramos
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Implications of macro-areal linguistics
Slavia Meridionalis, 2015 Implications of macro-areal linguistics Using the examples of some Balkan words with a difficult etymology, we attempt to show the possibilities for and implications of applying a macro-areal linguistic perspective to establish a wider view of the ...
Corinna Leschber
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Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not-so-dead Greek contact language [PDF]
, 2010 Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece.
Janse, Mark
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
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The development of play-texts: From manuscript to print [PDF]
, 2011 It is an axiom of historical linguistics, and indeed historical studies generally, that our present-day assumptions are not a reliable basis for the analysis and interpretation of language data from earlier periods.
Culpeper, Jonathan, Demmen, Jane
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is the priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and Australian governments, to provide infants with enriching environments in which they may thrive. This is particularly critical during the perinatal period. Yet, an increasing number of notifications and interventions by child protection authorities are occurring in ...
Neve Mucabel‐Bue +11 more
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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2014 This article deals with a problem of terminological differentiation of two disciplines within the scope of comparative linguistics that studies genetically related languages in diachrony (comparative-historical linguistics) and synchrony. For the purpose
Mahanbet Dzhusupov
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
Benjamin Flaum +3 more
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