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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe+2 more
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Cross-level interactions in Latin: Vowel shortening, vowel deletion and vowel gliding
Serial and parallel OT differ in the way they account for phonological generalizations referring to more than one level of the prosodic hierarchy. Vowel shortening in Latin is analyzed by McCarthy, Pater & Pruitt (2016) as a case in point. Vowel shortening takes place to optimize foot structure.
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Quantification at a distance and grammatical illusions in French
Abstract Recent research in psycholinguistics supports the hypothesis that retrieval from working memory is a key component of establishing syntactic dependencies in comprehension. This can result in so‐called grammatical illusions. These illusions have been modeled as the result of a content‐addressable retrieval process in sentence comprehension that
Jérémy Pasquereau+2 more
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VII.–THE COMPENSATORY LENGTHENING OF VOWELS IN IRISH. [PDF]
John Strachan
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ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
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Pronunciation of English Vowels, 1400-1700 [PDF]
Allen Mawer, R. E. Zachrisson
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ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Syllable Structure in Hawrami (Takht Dialect) [PDF]
The syllable is structured in every language according to the specific rules of that language. The purpose of this article is to study and describe the consonants and vowels, the syllable structure and consonantal clusters in the Hawrami language (the ...
Aliye Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya+1 more
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