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Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
Sagart L   +6 more
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Benedict's Austro-Tai Hypothesis - An Evaluation [PDF]

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The possible connections among the hundreds of languages of Southeast Asia have been the subject of considerable research and a fair amount of speculation since at least the beginning of this century.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan

open access: yes, 2003
Sino-Tibetan is a prime example of how strongly a language family can typologically diversify under the pressure of areal spread features (Matisoff 1991, 1999). One of the manifestation of this is the average length of prosodic words. In Southeast Asia, prosodic words tend to average on one or one-and-a-half syllables. In the Himalayas, by contrast, it
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Vowel Harmony in Sino-Tibetan Languages

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Abstract This chapter presents an overview of vowel harmony (VH) systems, as reported in some Sino-Tibetan languages—particularly, Qiangic, Na, and Tibetic—and reviews reported systems which are particularly diverse in Qiangic languages (e.g., palatal, height, rounding, advanced tongue root (ATR)/retracted tongue root (RTR), retroflex ...
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Human Population Genetic History and Evolutionary Dynamics on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

open access: yesMol Biol Evol
He G   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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