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Arabic Poems (2014)
Book
Hammond, M. (Ed.). (2014). Arabic Poems. Everyman's Library

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Owen-Smith, T., & Hill, N. W. (2014). Introduction. In T. Owen-Smith, & N. W. Hill (Eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area (1-10). Mouton de Gruyter

Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area (2014)
Book
Owen-Smith, T., & Hill, N. W. (Eds.). (2014). Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310832

The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relat... Read More about Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area.

Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish (2014)
Book Chapter
Peker, H., & Weeden, M. (2014). Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish. In N. Marchetti (Ed.), Karkemish An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates (132-136). Ante Quem. https://doi.org/10.12878/orientlab2

The article presents some fragments from the 2011 season of the renewed excavations at Karkemish, conducted by the University of Bologna in collaboration with Istanbul University, almost exactly 100 years after the commencement of the British Museum... Read More about Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish.

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution (2014)
Book
El-Desouky, A. (2014). The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392442

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Eg... Read More about The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution.

Foregrounding and Lexical Deviation: A Case Study of Loan Words in Yorùbá Newspapers (2014)
Journal Article
Osunnuga, T. (2014). Foregrounding and Lexical Deviation: A Case Study of Loan Words in Yorùbá Newspapers. Ihafa : a journal of African studies, 6(1), 117-136

Most times, Yoruba newspaper writer is artistic in his writing. One thing that makes this possible is the use of language differently from language of everyday. Utilising language in this manner results in novelty and creativeness. This paper attemp... Read More about Foregrounding and Lexical Deviation: A Case Study of Loan Words in Yorùbá Newspapers.

Epenthetic vowels in Swahili loanwords (2014)
Journal Article
Harvey, A. (2014). Epenthetic vowels in Swahili loanwords. The Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 8(2), 17-45

When adapting loans into Swahili, a series of vowels are inserted, resulting in forms that differ from those in the source languages (etymons). This work 1) identifies the nature of these inserted vowels, and 2) develops an explanation of the system... Read More about Epenthetic vowels in Swahili loanwords.

Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Simard, C., Wegener, C., Lee, A., Chiu, F., & Youngberg, C. (2014). Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis. Speech prosody, 7th International conference , 512-514. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2014-90

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of stress in Savosavo (Papuan isolate), an endangered language spoken on Savo Island (Solomon Islands. Acoustic analyses comprise the measurements of F0, duration, and intensity for each syllable in a datas... Read More about Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis.