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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
wiley   +1 more source

Sentence Comprehension and L2 Exposure Effects in 6‐Year‐Old Sequentially Bilingual Children With Typical Development and Developmental Language Disorder

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 60, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Differentiating typical language development (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) in a bilingual context is difficult. The societal language is often the only mutual language of the child and the SLT. It has been shown that when assessing second language (L2) performance using tools developed for monolingual children ...
Sini Smolander   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
wiley   +1 more source

The Songs and rituals of the Finno-Karelian bear hunt : Gifts, seduction and mimesis in the forest

open access: yes, 2023
In this chapter, I analyse the first stage of Finnish and Karelian bear ceremonialism – the songs and rituals performed during the bear hunt in the forest.
Piludu, Vesa Matteo
core   +1 more source

Trust and Income Among Immigrants in Europe

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1496-1513, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Social trust, a key cultural trait influencing economic behavior, plays a critical yet understudied role in immigrant integration. This paper examines how trust, both as an individual disposition and as a culturally inherited norm, relates to the economic integration of immigrants in Europe, measured by household income.
Niclas Berggren   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective value? Finland‐Swedish literature in the Nordic literary prize culture

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 370-394, August 2025.
Abstract Unlike many other minority literatures, Finland‐Swedish literature is very well embodied in the literary prize culture. Statistically, Finland‐Swedish authors are overrepresented among the nominees and recipients of the largest and most prestigious awards in Sweden and Finland, as well as the major joint Nordic literary prizes.
Tomi Riitamaa
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Eurasian Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Finland

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.
Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has played an important role in Finnish traditional culture and livelihoods from pre‐historic times. Convergence of observations points to the case where the iconic mammal of the northern forests is in decline and migrating to the urban habitats, with a number of important consequences.
T. Mustonen
wiley   +1 more source

The Professional Nurse Self‐Assessment Scale II – Translation and cultural adaptation for Nordic countries

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 648-656, September 2024.
Abstract Background It is important to map the clinical competence of newly graduated nurses in Nordic countries. The use of a common Nordic instrument could provide insights into nurses' levels of self‐assessed clinical competence and perceptions of their need for professional development.
Anna Anåker   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gold Temporal Rings with a Small Duck from the Perm Cis-Urals

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2016
The author examines a typical Bulgarian precious adornment – gold temple rings with a fi ligree duck fi gurine. He considers their area, manufacturing technology, issues of origin, dating and semantics.
Belavin Andrey M.
doaj  

WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 364-398, August 2024.
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
wiley   +1 more source

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