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Child-Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low-SES Afrikaans-Speaking Community in South Africa. [PDF]

open access: yesInfancy
ABSTRACT Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority‐world contexts, where the majority of the world's population lives.
Defty C, Southwood F.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post protocol residual thickness as a negative predictor for pharmacological treatment in early pregnancy loss

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To determine the rate of pharmacological treatment failure in early pregnancy loss, assess post‐treatment residua thickness as a predictor of retained products of conception (RPOC), identify a clinically relevant cutoff, and evaluate additional clinical and sonographic predictors. Methods This retrospective cohort study was conducted
Ravit Pertez‐Machluf   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

"The Language of Gods": The Pragmatics of Bilingual Parallelism in Ritual Ch'orti' Maya Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
from website.In this study I investigate the discursive function of parallelism in the ritual speech of Ch’orti’ Maya. Specifically, I examine the exploitation of the dual lexicons of Ch’orti’ Mayan and Spanish in the production of parallel structures ...
Hull, Kerry
core   +2 more sources

Revitalizing endangered mycocultural heritage in Mesoamerica: The case of the Tlahuica‐Pjiekakjoo culture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The preservation and revitalization of mycocultural heritage, developed over centuries of human‐mushroom interaction, contributes to safeguarding both natural ecosystems and the promotion of sustainable rural development, one of the biggest global challenges currently faced by humankind.
Elisette Ramírez‐Carbajal   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correspondence in OT syntax and minimal link effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The aim of this paper is the exploration of an optimality theoretic architecture for syntax that is guided by the concept of "correspondence": syntax is understood as the mechanism of "translating" underlying representations into a surface form.
Vogel, Ralf
core  

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling of internal joint distance in the elbow of small‐ to medium‐sized mammals: Implications for range of motion analyses

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
We investigated the internal joint distances (IJDs) of the humero‐ulnar and humero‐radial joint, within a sample of 15 small‐ to medium‐sized mammals and report isometric results. We also found that joint poses had no effect on IJDs and that IJDs scale isometrically within small species.
Adrian Scheidt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A nuclear families word list for French

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 111-138, Spring 2026.
Abstract This between‐languages replication study relates the development and testing of a nuclear, families‐based, pedagogical word list for French as was previously done for English. A word family includes base and inflected words (or lemmas) plus derivations.
Thomas Cobb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-Language Poetics: Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Research Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
For creative writers and for readers, opportunities to work with language in ways that engage two linguistic systems and/or two writing systems continue to expand with the growing influence of international and regional lingua francas.
Francis, Norbert
core   +3 more sources

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