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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]

open access: yesLinguistica 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
doaj   +1 more source

Location of the Uralic proto-language in the Kama River Valley and the Uralic speakers' Expansion east and west with the 'Sejma-Turbino transcultural phenomenon’ 2200-1900 BC

open access: yesАрхеология 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
doaj   +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

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People

open access: yesMovement 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
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

Sounds of the future and past

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 2, Page 316-335, May 2025.
Abstract We report evidence of sound symbolism for the abstract concept of time across seven experiments (total N = 825). Participants associated the future and past with distinct phonemes (Experiment 1). In particular, using nearly 8000 pseudowords, we found associations between the future and high front vowels and voiced fricatives/affricatives, and ...
David M. Sidhu, Johanna Peetz
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Past of Small Peoples (the case of the samoyeds)

open access: yesАрхеология 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
doaj   +1 more source

Lexical and Social Effects on the Learning and Integration of Inflectional Morphology

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 8, August 2024.
Abstract People learn language variation through exposure to linguistic interactions. The way we take part in these interactions is shaped by our lexical representations, the mechanisms of language processing, and the social context. Existing work has looked at how we learn and store variation in the ambient language. How this is mediated by the social
Péter Rácz, Ágnes Lukács
wiley   +1 more source

Digital vitality of Uralic languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We investigate the digital vitality of Uralic languages and dialects, and discuss how existing approaches to language revitalization relate to this ...
Pajkossy, Katalin   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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