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Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty

Author:Cysouw Michae
Publisher:De Gruyter
Abstract: The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this la…

Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance

Author:Hammarström Harald, O’Connor Lorett
Publisher:De Gruyter
Abstract: In this paper, we will develop two kinds of dependency-sensitive distance metrics. The first captur…

Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change

Author:Wichmann Søren, Holman Eric W
Publisher:De Gruyter
Abstract: The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected re…

Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family

Author:Pawley Andrew, Hammarström Haral
Publisher:De Gruyter
Abstract: The island of New Guinea is a region of spectacular, deep linguistic diversity.1It contains roughly…

Charms of the Cynical Reason

Author:Lipovetsky Mar
Publisher:Academic Studies Press
Abstract: The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of va…

Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age

Author:Prutsch Markus J
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract: Debates about the legitimacy and ‘essence’ of political rule and the search for ‘ideal’ forms of go…

Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia

Author:Duffield Colin, Hui Felix Kin Peng, Wilson Sally
Publisher:Open Book Publishers
Abstract: " Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports presents an important and original colla…

Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights

Author:Buikema Rosemarie, Buyse Antoine, Robben Antonius C.G.M.
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: "In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human r…

Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North

Author:Habeck Joachim Ott
Publisher:Open Book Publishers
Abstract: "Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle…

Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities

Author:Bjørgo Tore, Mareš Miroslav
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: This edited volume traces the rise of far right vigilante movements – some who have been involved i…
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