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Are ‘coercive’ language policies fair?

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 543-563, July 2025.
Abstract This paper provides a normative justification regarding the fairness of ‘coercively’ protecting minority languages in mixed societies where the minority group already knows the majority language. To do so, it adopts first a theory‐testing approach and examines, by using the Catalan case, the validity of the arguments presented in Morales ...
Joana Pena‐Tarradelles
wiley   +1 more source

Phonetic transfer in language contact:Evidence for equivalence classification in the mid-vowels of Occitan-French bilinguals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article examines first to second language (L1-to-L2) phonetic transfer in the speech of ten Occitan-French bilinguals, focusing on the mid-vowels in each of their languages.
Damien Mooney, Mooney, Damien
core   +1 more source

THE LINGUISTIC BATTLES OF THE ARAN VALLEY IN THE CRISIS OF MULTICULTURALISM

open access: yesИбероамериканские тетради, 2016
Annotated article is dedicated to the struggle of minority languages, particularly of the language of Aran, for official recognition. This struggle is unfolding against the backdrop of the European Union’s policy of multiculturalism, which is ...
ELENA Grinina
doaj   +1 more source

Tagging Occitan using French and Castillan Tree Tagger

open access: yes, 2013
International audiencePart-Of-Speech (POS) tagging, including tokenization and sentence splitting, is the first step in all Natural Language Processing chain. It usually requires substantial efforts to annotate corpora and produce lexicons. However, when
Vergez-Couret, Marianne
core   +3 more sources

Tissue Distribution and Phenotype of Human Mast Cells in BRGSF and NSG‐SGM3‐IL15 Humanized Mice

open access: yes
Allergy, Volume 80, Issue 11, Page 3212-3216, November 2025.
William P. M. Worrall   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epigenetics, Resilience, Protective Factors and Factors Promoting Positive Outcomes: A Scoping Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Volume 85, Issue 6, October 2025.
The review shows the connections between DNA methylation, resilience and individual and social protective factors. Resilience emerges as the most extensively studied topic, with a variety of genes identified. Social and emotional functioning, maternal care and social interaction are also investigated, primarily in relation to genes like OXTR.
Simone G. Assis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language death = identity death?: The role of Provençal in speaker identities

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis explores the role the Provençal language plays in the identities of those who speak, or are learning to speak the language. Twelve individuals, who were either teaching, learning or had been involved with Provençal, were interviewed in semi ...
Pickett, Jessica Valerie
core  

The Women of Corsican Nationalism: Between Tradition and Modernity (1975–98)

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 389, Page 112-136, January 2025.
Abstract This article investigates late twentieth‐century Corsican nationalism through the lens of gender, drawing attention to how women have sought to play an active and creative role in the movement. Through a series of interviews with female nationalist militants, this article will focus on what belonging to the nationalist movement meant to ...
DEBORAH PACI
wiley   +1 more source

Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages: Occitan

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter details the phonological system of southern Gallo-Romance, or Oc-citan, a language traditionally spoken throughout the south of France and in parts of Spain and Italy. It begins by outlining the external history of the language, its principal dialects and sub-dialects, the glottonyms used to refer to the language, and its representation in
openaire   +2 more sources

La construction d'un territoire de minorité entre revendications, conflits et institutionnalisation. Le cas des Vallées occitanes d'Italie

open access: yesBelgeo, 2013
The aim of this paper is to understand the emergence of the Italian Occitan valleys as a defined territory and the process of identity construction it underlies.
Silvia Chiarini
doaj   +1 more source

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