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

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
Sagart L, Jacques G, Lai Y, Ryder RJ, Thouzeau V, Greenhill SJ, List JM.   +6 more
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Benedict's Austro-Tai Hypothesis - An Evaluation [PDF]

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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Reconsidering the Diachrony of Tone in Rma

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020
Prior work has suggested that proto-Rma was a non-tonal language and that tonal varieties underwent tonogenesis (Liú 1998, Evans 2001a-b). This paper re-examines the different arguments for the tonogenesis hypothesis and puts forward subgroup-internal ...
Nathaniel A. Sims
doaj  

Cooperation is related to dispersal patterns in Sino-Tibetan populations. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2015
Wu JJ, Ji T, He QQ, Du J, Mace R.
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Sino-Tibetan Language [PDF]

, 2020
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Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan

, 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

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]

Mol Biol Evol
He G, Duan S, Chen G, Wang CC, Yuan H, Li X, Sun Q, Bu F, Cheng J, Lu Y, Liu C, Yuan H, Wang M.   +12 more
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The role of migration and language contact in the development of the Sino-Tibetan language family [PDF]

, 2010
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Ancient genomes give insight into 160,000 years of East Asian population dynamics and biological adaptation. [PDF]

Genome Biol
He G, Sun Y, Duan S, Luo L, Sun Q, Li B, Yun L, Liu C, Wang M.   +8 more
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