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ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on occupational choices, particularly in care‐oriented occupations which are scarce in many high‐income countries. We use administrative data of all students in Switzerland to study two diversity dimensions: ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization.
Damiano Pregaldini +2 more
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Postalveolar fricatives in Slavic languages as retroflexes
The present study poses the question on what phonetic and phonological grounds postalveolar fricatives in Polish can be analyzed as retroflex and whether postalveolar fricatives in other Slavic languages are retroflex as well.
Hamann, Silke
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Structural Competency: A Lifeline in a Time of Crisis
ABSTRACT Emergency departments occupy a unique position in the healthcare system: they are often where the consequences of upstream policy manifest most acutely. Structural competency—a framework for understanding how economic, political, and historical forces shape health—offers emergency medicine educators a practical means of preparing trainees to ...
Neelou Weeker +3 more
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An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Indo-European is a branch of Indo-Uralic which was radically transformed under the influence of a North Caucasian substratum when its speakers moved from the area north of the Caspian Sea to the area north of the Black Sea (cf. Kortlandt 2007b).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Toad zoonyms mirror the linguistic and demographic history of Greece. [PDF]
Davranoglou LR, Embirikos L.
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ABSTRACT Middle childhood represents a crucial developmental stage in which ethnic biases often emerge and solidify, potentially leading to peer exclusion or harassment. Recent research highlights the role of moral disengagement in ethnic‐related harassment and identifies intercultural competences as crucial for counteracting prejudicial peer ...
Efthymia Penderi +3 more
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On the Syllabic Intonations in the Dialect of Juraj Križanić
This article reconstructs the syllabic intonations of the dialect that was the basis for Križanić’s works. The main conclusion is that there are two short intonations in his accent system, one of which most likely originates from the Proto-Slavic short ...
Michail Oslon
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Linguistic complexity of South Slavic dialects: a new perspective on old data. [PDF]
Morozova M, Escher A, Rusakov A.
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ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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