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The Uralic languages

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2002
This paper deals with the Uralic languages, their regional distribution and relationship with one another. The Uralic languages are spoken in a large area in North and Central Eurasia.
Pirkko Suihkonen
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Foreword to the Special Issue on Uralic Languages

open access: yesNorthern European Journal of Language Technology, 2016
In this introduction we have tried to present concisely the history of language technology for Uralic languages up until today, and a bit of a desiderata from the point of view of why we organised this special issue.
Tommi A Pirinen   +5 more
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Verbal 'prefixation' in the Uralic languages [PDF]

open access: yesActa Linguistica Hungarica, 2003
The paper sets out with an overview of preverbs and prefixes in the Uralic languages. It will be shown that most Uralic languages have separable preverbs and only a few have verbal prefixes. These verbal prefixes have been borrowed from Slavic. This means that preverbs never get morphologized in Uralic.
Kiefer, Ferenc, Honti, László
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Data Mining Archaeogenetic and Linguistic Data Gives an Improved Chronology of the Uralic Language Family

open access: yesInformation
Since the early 19th century, linguists have collected enough linguistic data to draw a remarkably stable Uralic language family tree. However, the traditional Uralic language family tree has two main problems.
Peter Z. Revesz
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Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Despite remarkable progress in digital linguistics, extensive databases of geographical language distributions are missing. This hampers both studies on language spatiality and public outreach of language diversity. We present best practices for creating
Timo Rantanen   +4 more
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Language Reconstruction – Applied to the Uralic Languages

open access: yesMigracijske i etničke teme, 1999
After pointing out the shortcomings and methodological weakness of the general theory of linguistic reconstruction, the author disputes the alleged antiquity of Uralic.
Paolo Agostini
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Participial systems in Uralic languages: an overview

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
This paper is an intragenetic typological study of participial systems in Uralic languages, a family demonstrating a significant degree of variation in this domain. The classification of participial forms is based primarily on two parameters, participial
Ksenia Shagal
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Cross-Cultural Variation in the Noun Bias in Early Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

open access: yesCogn Sci
Abstract Children's early vocabularies have been observed to be predominated by nouns, particularly concrete and animate nouns. This phenomenon, known as the “noun bias,” is argued to reflect a universal conceptual advantage for concrete objects in early word learning, because such referents are perceived as bounded, individualized concepts that are ...
Zhang Y, Kim S, Casillas M.
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework. [PDF]

open access: yesAnn N Y Acad Sci
We 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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