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On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper it is argued that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency to avoid voiced sibilant affricates. This tendency is explained by appealing to the phonetic properties of the sounds, and in particular to their aerodynamic ...
Zygis, Marzena
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A Girls’ Army of Vengeance?: Perceptions of Sexual Violence against Children in post‐1905 Russia
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 636-652, July 2025.Abstract This article offers a microhistorical reading of a criminal case of sexual violence in 1908 St Petersburg. It traces the re‐interpretation of underage girls from innocent victims to potential prostitutes and carriers of debauchery and disease.
Alexandra Oberländer
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Chernobyl as the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union
Baltic Worlds, 2014 The belief in technology was fundamental in Soviet culture. When the nuclear reactor exploded and harvested souls and spread illness throughout a vast area, over the course of many years, an image of the collapse of the Soviet Union was thereby created ...
Johanna Lindbladh
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Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 484-501, July 2025.Abstract Diaries seem to contain almost anything; how could it be otherwise, given the diversity of their authors, the variety of contexts in which they are authored, and the range of reasons for authoring them? But examining diaries en masse, using computationally assisted reading, discloses large‐scale commonalities obscured by the local variance ...
Tatyana Gershkovich +2 more
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Borders in a Borderland: The Buryat‐Cossacks and the Buryat National Movement, 1917–21
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 403-421, July 2025.Abstract Between the February revolution and the 1921 end of the Russian Civil War, Buryat nationalists built a nation around Lake Baikal. Leaders sought Buryat autonomy within a postrevolutionary Russian polity. A lengthy border with Mongolia framed the region’s political geography and state‐builders competed for Buryat allegiances, compelling Buryat ...
Griffin B. Creech
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ON TEACHING A SECOND SLAVIC LANGUAGE: THE PROBLEM OF SERBO‐CROATIAN [PDF]
, 1967 Benjamin A. Stolz
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On internal definite reference in Slavic languages
Juznoslovenski filolog, 2014 The considered examples of use of the ?such and such? type of expression in Serbian and other Slavic languages and their analysis show that they represent a special type of reference and hold a special place in the system of pronominal words and expressions.
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
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ASSIMILATION OF BORROWINGS IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES (in the aspect of Russian-Czech-Slovak comparison)
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018 A rapid increase in borrowings from English is one of the hallmarks of the modern linguistic situation in Slavic languages. Similar diversion processes driven by the active influence of the English language are marked in all Slavic languages, although ...
Elena M Markova
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Dictionaries of associations of Slavic languages in semantic studies [PDF]
Linguistica Brunensia, 2018 The responses to stimuli old, stupid and beautiful from dictionaries of associations of Serbian, Russian and Bulgarian language are analyzed, similarities and dissimilarities between them are emphasized and possible usage of comparative investigations of associations in semantic studies of Slavic languages, Slavic culture and conception of Slavic ...
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