Stress shift under cliticization in Nuorese Sardinian
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2017 In most Romance languages clitics are stress neutral: when they attach to a host, they have no effect on stress placement: this is the case of Italian and Spanish.
Rosangela Lai
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Bangime: secret language, language isolate, or language island? A computer‐assisted case study
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2022 We report the results of a qualitative and quantitative lexical comparison between Bangime and neighboring languages. Our results indicate that the status of the language as an isolate remains viable, and that Bangime speakers have had different levels ...
Abbie Hantgan, Johann‐Mattis List
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Quantifying macro-rhythm in Persian: Evidence from Tehrani and Kermani varieties of Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهیPrevious studies on Persian rhythm and prosodic typology have focused on micro-rhythm. However, micro-rhythm alone cannot explain the perceptible prosodic differences between language varieties such as Tehrani and Kermani varieties of Persian, which are ...
Abedeh Mirzaee, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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PENDIDIKAN MULTIKULTURAL (Telaah Terhadap Sistem Pendidikan Nasional dan Pendidikan Agama Islam)
Potensia, 2016 Indonesia is a country which has pluralistic varieties. The varieties can be viewed from two perspectives namely horizontal perspective and vertical perspective.
Asmuri
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Chinese “Dialects” and European “Languages”: A Comparison of Lexico-Phonetic and Syntactic Distances
LanguagesIn this article, we tested some specific claims made in the literature on relative distances among European languages and among Chinese dialects, suggesting that some language varieties within the Sinitic family traditionally called dialects are, in fact,
Chaoju Tang +3 more
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Languages of Ethiopia and Languages of the 1994 Ethiopian Census
Aethiopica, 2012 The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia gathered considerable information of linguistic interest, notably the number of speakers of seventy-seven languages which it recognized.
Grover Hudson
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Hegomendebaldeko bizkaieraren aditz egituraren aldaketa-bilakabidea eta hizkuntz desagerpena
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1996 In this paper I present a study of language death from a linguistic perspective. Starting with an examination of the changes which are found in languages with a weakened linguistic structure, I then focus on changes round by compating different types of ...
Agurtzane Elordui
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Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Two Arabic Varieties: Evidence for REF-REC Category
LanguagesLanguages vary in expressing reflexivity and reciprocity. In some languages, reflexive and reciprocal constructions are formally identical, while in some other languages, they are distinct.
Abdulazeez Jaradat +3 more
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Descriptional Complexity of the Languages KaL: Automata, Monoids and Varieties [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2010 The first step when forming the polynomial hierarchies of languages is to consider languages of the form KaL where K and L are over a finite alphabet A and from a given variety V of languages, a being a letter from A.
Ondřej Klíma, Libor Polák
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Demonstrative Systems Are Not Affected by Contact: Evidence from Heritage Southern Italo-Romance
Languages, 2022 Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across languages.
Silvia Terenghi
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