In search of the nation in Fiume: Irredentism, cultural nationalism, borderlands
Abstract Irredentism is a crucial, yet understudied phenomenon of nationalism. Most scholars emphasise how irredentist thinking and practices function as a geopolitical instrument for inter‐state formation, resulting in radical nationalism. This article sheds light instead on the cultural preoccupations underlying irredentist discourses. It focusses on
Milou van Hout
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Learning language regimes: Children's representations of minority language education
Abstract Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings—a Slovene‐German bilingual ...
Judith Purkarthofer, Haley De Korne
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,,Exploration of dialectal Slovene: existing and necessary [PDF]
Prispevek predstavlja in komentira rezultate empirične raziskave (spletna anketa), nastale v okviru CRP Jezikovna politika republike Slovenije in potrebe uporabnikov, in le v tistem delu, ki daje uvid v to, koliko uporabniki poznajo in rabijo priročnike o narečni slovenščini ter kaj potrebujejo in čemu dajejo prednost. Pridani so še rezultati krajše in
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A Circum-Pannonian Word-Prosodic Parallel: Paroxytonic Accent in the South-West Bohemian Dialect
Slavists generally think of the Czecho-Slovak dialect area as having a wordprosody configuration of fixed word-initial stress with contrastive length possible in any syllable.
Zbyněk Holub
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Perceptual Dialectology and the Future of Slovene Dialects [PDF]
This paper is a description and analysis of a survey designed to ask questions about dialect usage and attitudes in Slovenia. The questionnaire was administered during November of 2005 at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Maribor. Overall, the survey of university students depicts a situation that is positive for dialect maintenance ...
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Using the ToBI transcription to record the intonation of Slovene
The paper presents ToBI, a transcription method for prosodic annotation. ToBI is an acronym for Tones and Breaks Indices which first denoted an intonation system developed in the 1990s for annotating intonation and prosody in the database of spoken ...
Jana Volk
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Preliminary Report on Dialect Attitudes in Austrian and Slovene Carinthia [PDF]
This paper is a preliminary analysis of an internet-based questionnaire on dialect attitudes and perceptions conducted in Slovene-speaking areas in Austrian and Slovene Carinthia. The survey largely confirmed expectations. Large majorities on both sides of the border claimed to use and value the local dialect.
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Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited [PDF]
There is every reason to welcome the revised edition (2009) of Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006), which I have criticized elsewhere (2006). The book is very well written and the author has a broad command of the scholarly literature.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology [PDF]
This paper investigates the ability of neural network architectures to effectively learn diachronic phonological generalizations in a multilingual setting.
Cathcart, Chundra A., Wandl, Florian
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Interactive web-based application for Slovenian dialectal texts [PDF]
The Slovene language has 56 dialects, grouped into 7 dialect groups. A lot of literature on Slovene dialects already exists in physical form, but the goal of this thesis was to develop an interesting, interactive web application which would let its users
Lovrić, Ivan
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