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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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A Cross‐Disciplinary Analysis of AI Policies in Academic Peer Review

Learned Publishing, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Rapid advances of artificial intelligence (AI) have substantially impacted the field of academic publishing. This study examines AI integration in peer review by analysing policies from 439 high‐ and 363 middle‐impact factor (IF) journals across disciplines. Using grounded theory, we identify patterns in AI policy adoption. Results show 83% of
Zhongshi Wang, Mengyue Gong
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Northern Russian Isoglosses in Middle Volga Region

Научный диалог
This study examines the lexicon of the Middle Volga region through the lens of inter-dialectal correspondences. It draws upon materials from regional atlases and dictionaries, as well as recordings and observations made during dialectological expeditions.
T. E. Bazhenova
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 74-92, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Prosodic Change in Breton: The Loss of Stressed Clitics1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 254-280, July 2024.
Abstract Most dialects of Breton have largely penultimate stress, and are also said to exhibit stress on certain clitics when they precede monosyllabic content words. However, data suggest that this prosodic process may not be maintained consistently by modern Breton speakers.
Holly J. Kennard
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Revisiting Syntactic Microvariation and Diachrony in the Dual Complementizer Systems of Upper Southern Italy1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 281-307, July 2024.
Abstract The primary aim of this work is to propose a diachrony of complementizer systems in the upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs). While previous diachronic studies have focused mainly on the transition from Latin to Romance, we aim to address several unanswered questions about the transition from medieval southern Italo‐Romance—in particular ...
Sara N. Cardullo, Kim A. Groothuis
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SUNDANESE ISOGLOSSES OF LEXICAL VARIATION IN KUNINGAN

English Review: Journal of English Education, 2013
This article discussed the distribution of lexical variation in 32 districts of Kuningan. The study was conducted to uncover dialect maps in Kuningan, their isogloss lines, and also major lexical variations. The study employed descriptive design.
Fahmy Hygienis
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Romance scholars off the beaten tracks

Isogloss
“Romance scholars off the beaten track” is a new Isogloss rubric featuring short interviews with Romance scholars who work outside the traditional regions where Romance linguistics is commonly studied.
Andreea Calude, Manuel Delicado Cantero, Shingo Suzuki   +2 more
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Vocatives with determiners: the case of vocatives preceded by possessives

Isogloss, 2020
In some varieties of Spanish (American, above all), possessives can appear in vocative constructions such as Mi niña, ¿qué haces? (lit. ‘My girl, what are you doing?’) in contrast to the generalization that vocatives refuse definite articles (Bosque 1996,
Laura González López
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Borgstrøm's Word Lists: East Sutherland and Easter Ross Dialects in the Light of the Scottish Gaelic Dialect Survey

Scottish Studies
This article surveys points of similarity between the Scottish Gaelic spoken in Easter Ross – a distinct dialect area not covered by Børgstrom’s 1942 study of Skye and Ross-shire Gaelic – and the dialects of East Sutherland / Caithness, features of which
Seosamh Watson
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