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Балто-армяно-славянские и балто-арменские параллели в лексико-семантичской группе «части тела и их функции»

open access: yesBaltistica, 2011
THE BALTIC–ARMENIAN–SLAVIC AND THE BALTIC–ARMENIAN PARALLELS IN „PARTS OF THE BODY AND THEIR FUNCTIONS‘‘SummaryThe lexico-semantic group considered in this paper reveals some interesting facts about areal interrelations.
Людвига Алексеевна Сараджева
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Variation in Central Ring: Convergence or divergence?

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023
Central Ring (CR) Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon seem to form a distinct subgroup within Ring that can be delimited from the West Ring subgroup by some isomorphs (e.g., absence of noun class 4, presence of a contrast of plural noun classes 10 vs.
Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic I [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The large majority of the isoglosses which can be established in the South Slavic dialectal area date from the time of the disintegration of Common Slavic and from more recent periods (e.g., Ivi´c 1958: 25ff).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family

open access: yes, 2020
Despite more than 200 years of research, the internal structure of the Turkic language family remains subject to debate. Classifications of Turkic so far are based on both classical historical–comparative linguistic and distance-based quantitative ...
Robbeets, M., Savelyev, A.
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

On the Etymology of the Place Name Brăíla [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2016
The paper addresses the etymology of the toponym Brăíla, the name of a Lower Danube town in Romania. The author provides historical and geographic data showing the antiquity of the toponym and, at the same time, its exceptional rarity resulting from its ...
Nikolay L. Sukhachev
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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Dialectological base of the machine fund of the bashkir language as a tool for research bashkir dialect continuum

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
This article deals with the problem of development of the dialectological base of the Machine fund of the Bashkir language. Along with the written monuments, folklore material, dialect is one of the most important sources for the study of the historical ...
Z. A. Sirazitdinov   +2 more
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Interrogating the Egypto-Sudanic Arabic Connection

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
The Arabic dialectology literature repeatedly asserts the existence of a macro-level classificatory relationship binding the Arabic speech varieties of the combined Egypto-Sudanic area.
Thomas A. Leddy-Cecere
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