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Sino-Tibetan Language Data and the Origin of East-Asian People
Data Science Journal, 2007 In this paper, we introduce in brief the basic conditions of the Sino-Tibetan data resources, the STEDT project (the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus) at the University of California, Berkeley and the STDP (The Sino-Tibetan Database and
Qianzi Tian, Di Jiang
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Languages, 2023 This paper investigates reduplication in Kua’nsi, a Central Ngwi language of the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken in Yunnan Province, China, by around 5000 speakers.
Huade Huang
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciWe analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Burchardt LS, Paschen L, Fuchs S.
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On the cluster * sr – in Sino-Tibetan [PDF]
Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2015 This paper presents a critical overview of previously proposed etymologies involving the initial cluster * sr – between Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages. It puts forth one new etymology, which confirms the simplification of the cluster * sr – to s – in Kiranti and the preservation of this cluster in Rgyalrong languages.
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Austronesian and Dene-Basque (Dene-Caucasian)
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 1993 There is general agreement among linguistic "lumpers" today that the Dene- Caucasian macrophylum ("Dene-Basque" would be more correct) consists of the following languages and language families: BASQUE; North Caucasian; Sumerian; Burushaski; Sino-Tibetan;
W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, F. Seto
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Linguistic diversity in the Tibetan regions: a set of Language Snapshots
Language Documentation and Description, 2021 This paper presents language profiles (or Language Snapshots) for each of the minority languages currently known to be used by Tibetans on the Tibetan Plateau in the People’s Republic of China, providing an overview of the extensive research that has ...
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Emerging negative impact of warming on summer carbon uptake in northern ecosystems
Nature Communications, 2018 The impacts of climate change on summer carbon cycling in the northern hemisphere remain poorly resolved. Here the authors use atmospheric CO2 records from Point Barrow (Alaska) to show that summer CO2 drawdown is significantly negatively correlated with
Tao Wang +18 more
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Sino-Tibetan Style of Buddhist Sculpture: Articulation of the Attribution Problem
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 This article is devoted to the concept of “style” and the possibility of its application in the attribution of works of Buddhist metal sculpture. This aspect, which, as a rule, is peripheral for classical Oriental studies, Buddhology, and history, where ...
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova
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HIMALAYA, 2018 This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Duncan J. Poupard
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Forensic Sciences Research, 2020 As a result of the expansion of old Tibet on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Tibetans diverged into three main branches, Ü-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham Tibetan.
Jiuyang Ding +7 more
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