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Tibetan Data Augmentation via GAN‐Based Handwritten Text Generation
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased awareness of Tibetan cultural preservation, along with technological advancements, has led to significant efforts in academic research on Tibetan. However, the structural complexity of the Tibetan language and limited labeled handwriting data impede advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and other applications.
Dorje Tashi +9 more
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Putting Prosody First – Some Practical Solutions to a Perennial Problem: The Innovalangues Project [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents some of the difficulties of teaching languages, in particular English, in the context of LSP/LAP2 programmes in French universities.
Frost Dan, Picavet Francis
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Syllable, accent, rhythm: typological and methodological considerations for teaching Spanish as a foreign language [PDF]
, 2012 El ritmo es una propiedad del habla relacionada con la organizacióntemporal de los sonidos en términos de agrupamiento. Las unidades desegmentación son específicas de cada lengua y emergen de propiedades fonológicastales como la estructura silábica, la ...
Lahoz, José
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Lenguas de compás acentual y lenguas de compás silábico: revisión teórica e implicaciones pedagógicas [PDF]
, 2000 In this paper the traditional rhythmic classification of stress-timed and syllable-timed languages has been revised by means of the analysis of syllable structure, vowel reduction, intersyllabic compression and the strength of the contrast between ...
Cuenca Villarín, María Heliodora
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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A longitudinal study of phonological processing skills and reading in bilingual children [PDF]
, 2005 French/English bilingual children (N=40) in French language schools participated in an 8-month longitudinal study of the relation between phonological processing skills and reading in French and English.
Gottardo, Alexandra, Lafrance, Adèle
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Rhythm Class Perception by Expert Phoneticians [PDF]
, 2015 This paper contributes to the recent debate in linguistic-phonetic rhythm research dominated by the idea of a perceptual dichotomy involving “syllable-timed” and “stress-timed” rhythm classes. Some previous studies have shown that it is difficult both to
Rathcke, Tamara, Smith, Rachel
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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