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Neighbors and relatives: How do speech embeddings reflect linguistic connections across the world?

Tuukka Törö, Antti Suni, Juraj Šimko

published 25 Aug 2025

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UICD: A new dataset and approach for urdu image captioning

Rimsha Muzaffar, Syed Yasser Arafat, Junaid Rashid, Jungeun Kim, Usman Naseem

published 02 Jun 2025

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Language and family entrepreneurship: empirical research based on micro survey data of CFPS in China

Chenglin Ren, Yijia Tang

published 06 May 2025

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The morpho-syntax of question particles in Standard Arabic

Abdul-Hafeed Fakih, Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi, Sami Algouzi

published 24 May 2024

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The syntax of wh-questions in unaccusative and (Un)ergative structures in Mehri language: A Phase-based approach

Abdul-Hafeed Fakih, Saeed Saad Al-Qumairi, Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi

published 12 Oct 2023

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Maltese as a merger of two worlds: A cross-language approach to phonotactic classification

Jessica Nieder, Fabian Tomaschek

published 18 Apr 2023

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Cultural differences in vocal expression analysis: Effects of task, language, and stimulus-related factors

Shuyi Zhang, Marc D. Pell

published 10 Oct 2022

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Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic

Timo Rantanen, Harri Tolvanen, Meeli Roose, Jussi Ylikoski, Outi Vesakoski

published 08 Jun 2022

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Standardizing norms for 180 coloured Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Kannada language

Shrilekha Bangalore, Holly Robson, Arlene J. Astell

published 05 Apr 2022

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Tone and genes: New cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the “derived” allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin

Dan Dediu

published 30 Jun 2021

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Altitude and the distributional typology of language structure: Ejectives and beyond

Matthias Urban, Steven Moran

published 05 Feb 2021

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Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea

Nicolas Antunes, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Francesco d’Errico, William E. Banks, Marian Vanhaeren

published 07 Oct 2020

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A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method

Taraka Rama, Søren Wichmann

published 12 Aug 2020

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