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Morphophonological Nature of Mari Accentuation as Viewed from the Uralic Perspective; pp. 184-207 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2013 This paper analyses the system of accentuation in Mari. Based on the data collected in the village of Staryj Torjal, the author argues that Mari stress cannot be described only on the phonetic/phonological level.
Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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Tracking Typological Traits of Uralic Languages in Distributed Language Representations [PDF]
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computatinal
Linguistics of Uralic Languages, 2018 Although linguistic typology has a long history, computational approaches have only recently gained popularity. The use of distributed representations in computational linguistics has also become increasingly popular. A recent development is to learn distributed representations of language, such that typologically similar languages are spatially close ...
Bjerva, Johannes, Augenstein, Isabelle
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions 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
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Археология евразийских степей, 2022 Volgo-Kama Neolithic resulted from an expansion of the Elshan culture to Lower Kama c. 5700 BCE. Corresponding “Indo-Uralic” linguistic parallels attest to an expansion of pre-Proto-Indo-European speakers to the area of pre-Proto-Uralic speakers.
Asko Parpola
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Volume 12, Issue 6, Page 807-816, June 2025.Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Marianna Selikhova +3 more
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The Great Past of Small Peoples (the case of the samoyeds)
Археология евразийских степей, 2022 Recent research suggests that the expansion history of the Uralic languages is closely connected with the so-called Seima-Turbino Transcultural Phenomenon (late 3rd to mid 2nd millennium BC), which involved trade in bronze objects from east to west along
Juha Antero Janhunen
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Ecology 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
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On the relationship between typology and the description of Uralic languages
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Language typologists are dependent on data provided by descriptive linguists working on individual languages, who, in turn, benefit from typologists’ results, which give them new insights into the properties of their respective languages.
Matti Miestamo
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