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British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Recent studies suggest that Turkish preschoolers exhibit a different pattern of theory of mind development than Western samples, particularly with respect to understanding the diversity of beliefs and knowledge acquisition. The present study posits that such differences extend to distinctions between understanding others' false belief and one ...
Mesut Saçkes +3 more
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On the Divergence of a Proto-Indo-European Velar Syllabic Nasal in Indo-European Languages
Discourse, 2019 Introduction. The proposed article critically examines the explanation of the origin of nasal vowels in Slavic languages by incorporating an open syllable law. It is shown that the convergence of many closed syllables, ending with nasal consonants, into two kinds of open syllables with nasal vowels contradicts a number of facts of evolution in the ...
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History of Indo-European languages: alignment change as a clue
, 2008 Grammatical structure of Indo-European (IE) languages may appear to be diverse, but it is in fact more systematic than one may think. What is significant in explanation is alignment, i.e.
Toyota, Junichi,, Lund University.
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Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages
, 2015 The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction ...
Cristina Guardiano +9 more
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Some culture is hiding in plain sight in research on child development
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Child development is cultural in nature, yet a divide persists between a (cross‐)cultural developmental science niche alongside a seemingly a‐cultural mainstream. In particular, childhood research relying on convenience sampling in often Western, post‐industrial (i.e., WEIRD) societies rarely ventures into issues of culture and context ...
Roman Stengelin
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Nivkh as a Uralo-Siberian language
, 2010 In his magnificent book on the language relations across Bering Strait (1998), Michael Fortescue does not consider Nivkh (Gilyak) to be a Uralo-Siberian language.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract Historical biogeography faces a persistent conceptual and methodological dilemma concerning the nature of its central analytical units. Using the recent proposal by Schultz and Cracraft (Cladistics 40, 653) as a catalyst, this article critiques the argument that causal inference necessitates the replacement of areas of endemism with barriers ...
Augusto Ferrari
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Verbal inflection from “Proto-Indo-European” to the Indo-European languages: A matter of coherence?
, 2009 Il saggio passa in rassegna le categorie flessionali del verbo indoeuropeo ricostruito e i loro sviluppi nelle lingue storiche, apportando una revisione critica alla valutazione precedentemente data del carattere conservativo o innovativo del sistema ...
DI GIOVINE, Paolo
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Advancing conservation breeding programs for marine invertebrates
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract In the face of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss caused by climate change and other stressors, conservation breeding, or captive breeding, with the aim of reintroduction for wild population recovery, is an emerging tool for preventing species’ extinction and rehabilitating ecosystems.
Elora H. López‐Nandam +3 more
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Twelve principles for successful governance of community‐based coastal marine restoration
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Global agreements, such as the Global Biodiversity Framework, call for urgent, large‐scale action to halt biodiversity loss through a whole‐of‐society approach. Community‐based restoration can play a crucial role in achieving this goal, yet there remains limited understanding of what makes these projects effective and sustainable.
Michelle M. Holian +2 more
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