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LanguagesAfrican anthroponyms are a rich repository of the socio-cultural materials of ethnolinguistic groups. They reveal speakers’ collective beliefs, norms, traditions, practices, philosophies and worldview.
Mercy Runyi Etu +2 more
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MIRACLE Retrieval Experiments with East Asian Languages [PDF]
, 2005 This paper describes the participation of MIRACLE in NTCIR 2005 CLIR task. Although our group has a strong background and long expertise in Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval applied to European languages and using Latin and Cyrillic ...
González Cristóbal, José Carlos +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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LLAS/Why study...? downloadable calendar - November 2011, Gujarati [PDF]
This calendar, for the month of November 2011, in Gujarati, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project.
Borthwick, Kate
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, 2010 The concept of mixed language has recently gained some popularity, to my mind for no good reason. It is unclear how a mixed language can be distinguished from the product of extensive borrowing or relexification.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Cross-Regional Patterns of Obstruent Voicing and Gemination: The Case of Roman and Veneto Italian
LanguagesItalian has a length contrast in its series of voiced and voiceless obstruents while also presenting phonetic differences across regional varieties.
Angelo Dian, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
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