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Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The origin of the Xiongnu and the Rourans, the nomadic groups that dominated the eastern Eurasian steppe in the late first millennium BC/early first millennium AD, is one of the most controversial topics in the early history of Inner Asia.
Jeong, C., Savelyev, A.
core   +2 more sources

Philanthropy and Indigenous Initiatives: Insights From Australian Donors

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on a survey and interview data, collected from a group of 180 donors who made monetary gifts to an Australian higher education institution, to better understand what drives individuals and organisations to donate to Indigenous initiatives.
Celina McEwen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing a Family Tree of Ten Indo-European Languages with Delexicalized Cross-linguistic Transfer Patterns [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
It is reasonable to hypothesize that the divergence patterns formulated by historical linguists and typologists reflect constraints on human languages, and are thus consistent with Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in a certain way. In this paper, we validate this hypothesis on ten Indo-European languages.
arxiv  

Some thoughts on the reason for the lesser status of typology in the USA as opposed to Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article addresses the issue of the different status that typology has in American linguistics as opposed to European linguistics. The historical roots of the difference lie in both structural and generative linguistics, in the contrasts between post-
Van Valin Jr., R.
core   +2 more sources

The Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: Does Australian Policy and Practice Adequately Support Cultural Identity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Historical linguistics as a sequence optimization problem: the evolution and biogeography of Uto‐Aztecan languages

open access: yesCladistics, 2015
Language origins and diversification are vital for mapping human history. Traditionally, the reconstruction of language trees has been based on cognate forms among related languages, with ancestral protolanguages inferred by individual investigators ...
W. Wheeler, Peter M. Whiteley
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Meeting the Needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People With Hearing Loss in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hearing loss is a poignant issue in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and, without sufficient support, it can also contribute to disabling life experiences. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is intended to provide support to eligible people experiencing disability, however, to effectively serve this ...
Hannah Lack   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Na trilha das bandeiras

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2005
The project "Filologia Bandeirante", searching for vestiges of lnaguage from the period of the "bandeiras" in current speech recordings, has shown to be of immense richness, once the results have gone beyond the inicitial target.
Rachel Omoto Gabriel
doaj   +1 more source

LANGUAGE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

open access: yes, 2016
Language can change and develop by itself slowly. Language can change and development because of adaptation of development and pattern change and system of society life, such as level of education, social, culture and technology mastery.
Trisna Dinillah Harya
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics.
Martín Mota, Sidney, Müller, Daniela
core   +1 more source

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