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Reduplicazione in swahili. Iconismo e oltre
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 The aim of this article is to deal with the semantics of reduplication in Swahili, on the basis of a list of 562 reduplicative words. In the first part of the work we will focus on the iconic values of reduplication, shared by most of the world languages;
Marina Castagneto
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Reduplication of Mongondow Language
Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2017 This study aims at describing the reduplication of Mongondow and its meanings. The method used in this research is descriptive method in taxonomy that is an elaboration by classifying elements of language according to hierarchical relationship. Data were
Donal Matheos Ratu, Mister Gidion Maru
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Morfofonemik Reduplikasi Bahasa Dawan
HumanisThis article discusses the morphophonemic aspects of reduplication in the Dawan language. The focus on morphophonemic studies is based on the fact that reduplication is a word formation process involving repetition, making exploring the intersection and ...
Naniana Nimrod Benu +2 more
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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The Tasty Side of Numbers: How Vowel Type Influences Taste Perceptions for Numerical Brand Names
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 11, Page 3065-3076, November 2026.ABSTRACT Numerical brand names are commonly used in food marketing yet underexplored for their sensory impact. Relying on processing fluency theory, across four studies, including an IAT (n = 149), a quantitative and qualitative lexical analysis of professional wine tasting notes (n = 695), an online study (n = 306), and archival consumer wine ratings (
Nathalie Spielmann, Diego Vega
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Characteristics of Speech Sound Development in Preterm‐Born Children: A Scoping Review
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 6, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT Background There is substantial evidence for the detrimental impact of preterm birth on language development compared to children born at term. However, little is known regarding speech sound development of preterm infants. Speech development precedes language development and requires investigation in its own right.
Sam Burr, Sam Harding, Sarah Rudd
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ON THE SEMANTICS OF NUMERAL REDUPLICATION IN HAYA: BETWEEN DISTRIBUTIVITY AND PLURACTIONALITY [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivăThis paper provides a first description and analysis of numeral reduplication in Haya, a Bantu language. In literature, numeral reduplication is generally analyzed as a marker of either distributivity or event plurality (pluractionality) in the languages
Amazigh Bedar, Alfred Mulinda
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Silent gesture is increasingly used in linguistics to investigate questions that are difficult or impossible to address using natural language data alone, including issues of language emergence, word order, grammatical categorisation, and iconicity. However, the interpretation of silent‐gesture findings remains methodologically complex.
Oksana Tkachman
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Swati and Kikuyu reduplication evidence against exhaustive copy
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 This paper addresses the central question of deriving shape-invariance of partial reduplication in two competing models of reduplication: Selective Copy [McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1988, and 1990] and Exhaustive Copy [Steriade 1988].
Long Peng
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