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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]
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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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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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
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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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
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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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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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
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The Great Past of Small Peoples (the case of the samoyeds)
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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Lexical and Social Effects on the Learning and Integration of Inflectional Morphology
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
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Digital vitality of Uralic languages [PDF]
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
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