The Welsh and Irish languages, the indigenous languages of Wales and Ireland, respectively, have
experienced significant declines in their speaker populations since the beginning of English settlement in
their homelands. ...
This thesis documents the spelling system created by Aurora Sánchez Gómez for Zapotec (Otomanguean) as spoken in San Bartolomé Quialana, Oaxaca. Beyond documentation, areas of over and underrepresentation of the underlying ...
This paper provides preliminary evidence that in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec (SLQZ),
an Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico, plant taxonomy exhibits a unique
system wherein life-form classes overlap significantly. ...
Le Rôle du choix de langue dans la littérature et le cinéma multilingues
Dans un monde de plus en plus mondialisé, le nombre de personnes qui parlent plusieurs
langues augmentait et donc le nombre de films multilingues ...
Non-canonical DNA structures known as G-quadruplexes (GQs) and i-motifs can form from G-rich and C-rich sequences within the genome, respectively, which are prominent within telomeres and oncogene promoters. These non-canonical ...
This project by Anastasia Kozitskaia, Class of 2022, explores cultures of gender-based violence and women's activism at Haverford College, especially surrounding the College's move to a coeducational model in the late 1970s ...
Koshur, also known as Kashmiri, is a Dardic language spoken primarily in the Kashmir
Valley of South Asia, the center of the international Kashmir conflict, in India-administered
Kashmir. It has about 7 million speakers ...
This thesis explores interactions between food, language, culture, and marketing in order to
recognize their convergence in food product advertising. Marketing, a field that blends the
studies of psychology, sociology, ...
An under-studied phenomenon of lexical borrowing is the ill-formed, or partially
assimilated loanword. Loans of this kind invite otherwise prohibited structures into
the borrowing language, and in doing so contradict the ...
Some signs are articulated with one manual articulator (1H signs), others with two (2H
signs). Over time, some 2H signs become 1H in a process called Weak Drop, motivated
and conditioned by a number of relatively easy ...
This paper will investigate different loss functions used for various natural
language processing (NLP) machine learning tasks. These loss functions have
proven their worth in the area of machine translation but they ...
Biakic is a small subgroup of New Guinea’s Austronesian (AN) languages
belonging to the South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) family. The
Biakic group contains four languages: Biak, Roon, Roswar, and Dusner. Following
the ...
This thesis seeks to assess previous computational work done regarding reduplication
in order to account for reduplication in a morphological analyzer for the Wamesa language.
This paper includes a brief introduction to ...
Japanese consists of many sets of word endings which can identify a certain aspect of
the speaker, such as being rich, poorly educated, manly, feminine, by being used. In particular,
a set of word endings known as women’s ...
In addition to merely joining multiple constituents, conjunction can serve as an explicit indicator of how
those constituents are related – viz., if they are in a positive or negative semantic relation. Positive
conjunction ...
Underinformative implicatures (UIs) are a type of inference that can give rise to two
potential meanings. UIs can be either literal, which do not require the use of social
inferences, or pragmatic, which necessitate ...
While the field of loanword research has received more attention since the Nineteenth Century, it
has been noted that the existing literature is rather limited in terms of both the perspective and the
methodology, both ...
Access to bilingual education has been a contentious political subject throughout United States
history, despite significant evidence of the cognitive, psychological, cultural, academic,
professional, and communicative ...