Sino-African Philosophy: A Re-“Constructive Engagement” [PDF]
“Constructive-Engagement” is a meta-philosophical and meta-methodological “strategy” suggested by Chinese and comparative philosophy scholar Bo Mou for analyzing and enriching philosophical exchange.
DOTTIN, Paul A.
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Historical narratives and sociolinguistic factors affecting language use of the Hakkas in Thailand
The Hakka people, a subgroup within the Han Chinese ethnicity and part of the Southern Sinitic language family, have migrated from China to various regions in Southeast Asia over several centuries.
Sutthiphod Phiranawong +2 more
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Tone and intonation: introductory notes and practical recommendations [PDF]
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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Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object encoding [PDF]
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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Mimicking Word Embeddings using Subword RNNs
Word embeddings improve generalization over lexical features by placing each word in a lower-dimensional space, using distributional information obtained from unlabeled data.
Eisenstein, Jacob +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]
Fu X +5 more
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Problems of methodology and explanation in word order universals research [PDF]
Ever since the publication of Greenberg 1963, word order typologists have attempted to formulate and refine implicational universals of word order so as to characterize the restricted distribution of certain word order patterns, and in some cases have ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Relationship of age-related hearing loss with cognitive decline and dementia in Sinitic tonal language-speaking populations: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Fu X +5 more
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Causes and effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum influence, with reference to Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]
Language contact has become a major focus of inquiry in historical and typological linguistics in the last twenty years, spurred in a large part by the publication of Thomason & Kaufman (1988), which tried to make sense of a large amount of language ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Diversity and distribution of mitochondrial DNA in non-Austronesian-speaking Taiwanese individuals. [PDF]
Lin M, Trejaut JA.
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