Sino-Tibetan linguistics encompasses the comprehensive study of a language family that includes Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages, characterised by a remarkable diversity in phonological, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this overview article, I seek to identify and discuss some tendencies in Slavic historical linguistics in recent years. Rather than ...

Abstract: In this paper, the author poses three questions of historical phonology and gives explanations that are meant to be rational: 1. With respect to the ...

In recent years, language-learning apps, websites, and podcasts have exploded in popularity, promising fun and faster ways to make us fluent. But a new study conducted by UBC English professor Dr.

If you pay a visit to the Singapore Stone, displayed at the National Museum of Singapore, you might be disappointed. That's because the inscription—carrying an unknown writing system transcribing an ...

Here is an example of how the pronunciation of a language has been reconstructed in the past: Various scholars, such as Girolamo Aleandro (1480–1542) and Aldus Manutius (1449–1515) judged that the ...

My main research interest is historical phonology, both to reconstruct the sounds of the past and to account for sound change over time. I focus on theories of diachronic phonology which interface ...

Researchers have tested the capacity of different computational approaches to detect cognates with striking success rates: The best-performing method could detect word relationships with an accuracy ...

On language, change, and language change - or, of history, linguistics, and historical linguistics / Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph -- Comparative method / Robert L. Rankin -- On the limits of the ...

Much of the studies done in linguistics are done, based on descriptive linguistics, or without studying the historical origin of different words. Unfortunately, this will not help identify migration ...