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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?
Linguistic Discovery, 2015 Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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A quest for effective and inclusive design of Chinese characters in subtitling [PDF]
, 2018 Research on subtitling has developed rapidly in most Western countries in the last two decades, resulting in a certain consensus about standards. In response to new social and political challenges, in recent years the focus of research has broadened to ...
Casas-Tost, Helena, Rovira-Esteva, Sara
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Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 This study focuses on the on-going disappearance of low tone breathiness in Shanghai Chinese. In the change from a voicing contrast to a tone register contrast in Sinitic languages, the ancient voiced series was characterised by a breathy voice quality ...
Jiayin Gao
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Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object encoding [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines two different strategies found in direct object encoding on the basis of a sample of 159 languages. In particular, this paper deals with the differences between symmetric (i.e.
Iemmolo, Giorgio
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ReligionsThe gibbon was an often-mentioned animal in the elite literati world of China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula during the twelfth to nineteenth centuries, with a large number of poems and paintings touching on the theme of gibbons.
Xuejun Liu
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Open LinguisticsThis study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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Tone and intonation: introductory notes and practical recommendations [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThe present article aims to propose a simple introduction to the topics of (i) lexical tone, (ii) intonation, and (iii) tone-intonation interactions, with practical recommendations for students.
Michaud, Alexis, Vaissière, Jacqueline
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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective
Jurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies)Macau’s location on the South China Sea suggests that any syncretic activity would have been of Sinitic-Portuguese variety. However, the situation is rather more nuanced, as the culture of the Macanese people, who consider themselves the ‘sons of the ...
Annabel Jackson +2 more
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The Relationship of Age-Related Hearing Loss with Cognitive Decline and Dementia in a Sinitic Language-Speaking Adult Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Innov Aging, 2023 Fu X +5 more
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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