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OSSETIAN-BALOCH ISOGLOSSES [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия СОИГСИ, 2021
Иранские языки и диалекты распространены на огромной территории. Наиболее южным из иранских языков является белуджский. На крайнем северо-западе ираноязычного массива распространен осетинский, который доходит до 44° северной широты. Диалектная классификация современных иранских языков основана на их истории.
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Creation of regions for dialect features using a cellular automaton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
An issue in dialect research has been how to make generalizations from survey data about where some dialect feature might be found. Pre-computational methods included drawing isoglosses or using shadings to indicate areas where an analyst expected a ...
Juuso, Ilkka   +1 more
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In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper investigates the ability of neural network architectures to effectively learn diachronic phonological generalizations in a multilingual setting.
Cathcart, Chundra A., Wandl, Florian
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geoorigins: A new method and r package for trait mapping and geographic provenancing of specimens without categorical constraints

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 10, Page 1247-1257, October 2020., 2020
Abstract Biologists often seek to geographically provenance organisms using their traits. This is typically achieved by defining spatial groups using distinct patterns of trait variation. Here, we present a new spatial provenancing and trait boundary identification methodology, based on correlations between geographic and trait distances that require ...
Ardern Hulme‐Beaman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial evolution of human dialects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The geographical pattern of human dialects is a result of history. Here, we formulate a simple spatial model of language change which shows that the final result of this historical evolution may, to some extent, be predictable.
Burridge, James
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General phonetic features of speaking the northern patois of the Azerbaijani language in the context of influence of Kipchak and Oguz

open access: yesНеофилология, 2020
We consider the general phonetic features of the northern patois (patois of the north-western group) of the Azerbaijani language. We analyze long and short vowel variants, offence of the harmony rule, sound transitions, phonetic differences created by ...
K. I. Samedova
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring languageness: Fact-checking and debunking a few common myths

open access: yesDive-In, 2021
The article critically discusses a few common objections to an intrinsic, language-internal definition of what constitutes a ‘language’ (and, conversely, a ‘dialect’). It argues that, contra postmodernism (1.), languages do exist, they can be counted and
Mauro Tosco
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ANDYAN-AVAR ISOGLOSSES

open access: yes, 2021
The article deals with the problems of comparative analysis of the vocabulary of the Andean languages with dialects and dialects of the Avar language. The work is based on a critical analysis of the material of TE Gudava's fundamental research "Comparative analysis of verbal stems in the Avar and Andean languages".
M. A. Magomedov, D.-A. A. Khazamov
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Historical Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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Бесермянско-коми изоглоссы как свидетельство былых контактов между народами [Besermyan-Komi Isoglosses as Evidence for Past Contacts between Peoples] [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica
This research is devoted to the study of linguistic elements present in Besermyan and Komi, but absent from Udmurt or most of its dialects. The Besermyan language has not been object of areal research to the present day.
Sergey Maksimov
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