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Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life] (1997)
Journal Article
Easton, K. (1997). Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life]. The Boston globe, N1, N4

A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features (1997)
Journal Article
Sprigg, R. K. (1997). A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 60(3), 448-454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00032493

An earlier analysis of Gurung, by Burton-Page in BSOAS, 17/1, 1955, put forward a single system, of two terms, for the word unit in the dialect spoken in Ghandrung: tones 1 and 2; the present analysis of the Gurung of a speaker from the centre of the... Read More about A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features.

The Court Scribe's Eikon Psyches. A note on Sima Qian and His Letter to Ren An (1997)
Journal Article
Fuehrer, B. (1997). The Court Scribe's Eikon Psyches. A note on Sima Qian and His Letter to Ren An. Asian and African Studies (Bratislava), 6(2), 170-183

The aim of this study is to analyse the literary rhetoric connected with the letter of Sima Qian to Ren An, its connection with epistolary and other traditions of antiquity and the later critical evaluation through history.

Becoming Muslim in Soudan Français (1997)
Book Chapter
Brenner, L. (1997). Becoming Muslim in Soudan Français. In D. Robinson, & J.-L. Triaud (Eds.), Le Temps des marabouts: Itinéraires et stratégies islamiques en Afrique Occidentale Française, ca. 1880-1960 (467-492). Karthala

Licensing constraints for Swahili vowel harmony (1997)
Book Chapter
Marten, L. (1997). Licensing constraints for Swahili vowel harmony. In S. Markve, E. Pennings, & A. Tsukiashi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Manchester Postgraduate Linguistics Conference (239-255). University of Manchester

Rise and decline of the Indra religion in the Veda (1997)
Book Chapter
Söhnen-Thieme, R. (1997). Rise and decline of the Indra religion in the Veda. In M. Witzel (Ed.), Inside the texts, beyond the texts new approaches to the study of the Vedas ; proceedings of the International Vedic Workshop, Harvard University, June 1989 (235-243). Harvard University

Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese (1997)
Journal Article
Watkins, J. (1997). Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese

This paper assesses the value of measuring aspects of an unmodified acoustic recordings of speech in the two language Burmese (Tibeto-Burman) and Wa (Mon_Khmer) in relation to the glottal source, or phonation type.
This method faces the problem of... Read More about Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese.

"Bond of the lands": Babylon, the cosmic capital (1997)
Book Chapter
George, A. (1997). "Bond of the lands": Babylon, the cosmic capital. In G. Wilhelm (Ed.), Die orientalische Stadt: Kontinuität, Wandel, Bruch (125-145). Saarbrücker Druckerei