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Recursive Numeral Systems Optimize the Trade‐off Between Lexicon Size and Average Morphosyntactic Complexity

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract Human languages vary in terms of which meanings they lexicalize, but this variation is constrained. It has been argued that languages are under two competing pressures: the pressure to be simple (e.g., to have a small lexicon) and to allow for informative (i.e., precise) communication, and that which meanings get lexicalized may be explained ...
Milica Denić, Jakub Szymanik
wiley   +1 more source

CLEFTS IN OTOMI: EXTENDED USES OF THE COPULAR CONSTRUCTION

open access: yes, 2018
International audienceIn this article, I study clefts in Otomi, a small family of languages of Mexico from the Oto-Manguean stock. Clefts represent an area of Otomi syntax that has not been previously reported on. I compare the clefts we find in two very
Palancar, Enrique, L
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Risk, protective, and biomarkers of dementia in Indigenous peoples: A systematic review

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 563-592, January 2024.
Abstract INTRODUCTION Dementia is an emergent health priority for Indigenous peoples worldwide, yet little is known about disease drivers and protective factors. METHODS Database searches were conducted in March 2022 to identify original publications on risk, protective, genetic, neuroradiological, and biological factors related to dementia and ...
Huong X. T. Nguyen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clause Combining in Otomi before and after contact with Spanish

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2012
In this contribution, we explore two hypotheses with respect to clause combining. The first one is the assumption that languages with a mainly spoken tradition explicitly code clause relations, both coordination and subordination, to a lesser extent than
Dik Bakker, Ewald Hekking
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular evidence that the opportunistic fungal pathogen Trichosporon asahii is part of the normal fungal microbiota of the human gut based on rRNA genotyping

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
The fungus Trichosporon asahii is distributed widely in the environment and is frequently isolated from clinical specimens. It can cause life-threatening disseminated infections, including breakthrough infection after the administration of candin ...
Otomi Cho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Niñas y niños otomíes, actores sociales en la apropiación étnica de la educación escolar indígena

open access: yesConfluenze, 2023
In this article we present children’s strategies of ethnic appropriation of the school process through socialization and interaction in an Otomi indigenous context of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Hidalgo, Mexico.
José Luis Ramos Ramírez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The evolution of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in the Late Cretaceous is a key driver of explosive diversification in Agaricomycetes

open access: yesNew Phytologist, Volume 241, Issue 1, Page 444-460, January 2024.
Summary Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) symbiosis, a ubiquitous plant–fungus interaction in forests, evolved in parallel in fungi. Why the evolution of EcM fungi did not necessarily increase ecological opportunities for explosive diversification remains unclear.
Hirotoshi Sato
wiley   +1 more source

EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE IN INDIGENOUS ADOLESCENTS

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2018
This article aims to contribute to the reflection about the exposure to violence experienced by indigenous adolescents, specifically from the ethnic group otomí.
Jorge Adán Romero-Zepeda   +2 more
doaj  

ALINEAMIENTO MORFOSINTÁCTICO DEL HÑÄHÑÚ (OTOMÍ DEL VALLE DEL MEZQUITAL)

open access: yesAlfa: Revista de Lingüística
RESUMEN: Este trabajo describe los alineamientos de sujeto y objeto en hñähñú (u otomí del Valle del Mezquital), y compara algunos rasgos gramaticales, léxicos y semánticos de estos con las correspondientes descripciones del otomí de Querétaro y del ...
Néstor Hernández-Green
doaj   +2 more sources

EVERYDAY AND VIOLENCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF THE REGION OTOMI TEMOAYA: TOWARDS A DRAFT INTERCULTURALITY FOR PEACE AND SCHOOL COEXISTENCE

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2016
One might think that social life in indigenous communities is idyllic and live in community means being in harmony. This is no longer true. In recent years the Otomi Toluca Valley region has urbanized and thus acculturation processes affecting families
Araceli González-Baltazar   +1 more
doaj  

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