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Passions among Cork Oaks and Lotuses. Vegetable Metaphors in Midnight Songs (Ziyege 子夜歌, 4th‒5th century)

open access: yesMediAzioni, 2022
Midnight Songs or Ziyege 子夜歌 is a cycle of forty-two anonymous pentasyllabic quatrains written by, or for, female singers, whose composition can be dated back to the 4th and 5th centuries. The poems were then gathered together and transmitted to us a few
Luca Stirpe
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Inter-lingual Homophony: Neige as a Demonstrative/Filler in Mandarin Chinese

open access: yesStudia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
The demonstrative/filler neige in Mandarin Chinese is potentially contentious outside that language, as it bears resemblance in terms of pronunciation with a racial slur in English.
Aiqing Wang
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Ethnophilologie

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie, 2017
My essay concerns two cases, two individuals, who lived at about the same time, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One is very well known: Garcilaso de la Vega, « El Inca ». The other is known only by specialists: John David Rhys. The first,
Carlo Ginzburg
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Considerazioni lessematico-etimologiche sull’ opposizione grafematica latina < condiciō > ~ < conditiō >

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014
From the graphical-etymological point of view we must prefere [kon’ditʃio:] to [kon’ditsio:] inside syntagms in current use such as par condiciō or condiciō sine quā nōn. The interference between the two lexemes is old and widely documented.
Romano Sgarbi
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Le je(u) de chaises musicales du breton

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2009
The loss of lexis in Breton along the centuries, which Fleuriot tried to list in his dictionary of Old Breton, is revisited here according to a double perspective: horizontal first through variation as it has been studied in the twentieth century and ...
Francis Favereau
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Gender assignment to English noun insertions in New York Dominican Spanish

open access: yesAmpersand, 2023
The current study explores which factors condition gender assignment to English noun insertions in New York Dominican Spanish and compares these results with previous studies on gender assignment to English noun insertions in Spanish.
Tara Feeney   +3 more
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Phonetic and Phonological Effects of Depressor Consonants in Malawian CiTonga

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2022
In this paper we show that certain consonants have the effect of depressing the tone on adjacent vowels in Malawian CiTonga, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Nkhata Bay. We argue that some of these effects are phonological, changing High vowels to Low.
Winfred Mkochi   +2 more
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Num-Symbolic Homophonic Social Net-Words

open access: yesInformation, 2022
Many excellent studies about social networks and text analyses can be found in the literature, facilitating the rapid development of automated text analysis technology.
Yi-Liang Chung   +2 more
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
wiley   +1 more source

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