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Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (2011)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2011). Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1553/0x0028e87e

The Persian conquest of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 614 represented one of the crucial episodes and high points of the last great war of antiquity between Sasanian Persia and the East Roman/Byzantine empires (603-628). The purpose of this monograp... Read More about Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare.

Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays) (2011)
Book
Tan, T. Y. (2011). Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays). Zhejiang guji chubanshe

This book provides the first critical edition of Kang Hai’s (1475-1541) complete sanqu songs. It supersedes five existing modern editions of this influential writer as it includes, for the first time, the newly discovered 185 xiaoling songs and 82 so... Read More about Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays).

Multiple Origins of Tibetan o (2011)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2011). Multiple Origins of Tibetan o. Language and linguistics (Taipei), 12(3), 707-721

Widespread agreement prevails that Tibetan o is the result of the merger of several distinct sounds in proto-Tibeto-Burman. Here I attempt to reconcile Matisoff and Gong’s presentations of the origins of Written Tibetan o, making fuller use of
philo... Read More about Multiple Origins of Tibetan o.

Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry (2011)
Book
Howard, K., & Kasmambetov, S. (2011). Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry. Brill/Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004218048

Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signalling its global importance. It sits... Read More about Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry.

Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners (2011)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2011). Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners. In W.-S. Lee, & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (428-431). City University of Hong Kong

Studies of proficient second-language (L2) learners have often noted phonetic drift of their native language (L1) vis-à-vis monolingual norms. Such drift has been attributed to perceptual linkage between similar sounds in L1 and L2. This study provid... Read More about Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners.

Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin (2011)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B., Yao, Y., Haynes, E. F., & Rhodes, R. (2011). Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(6), 3964-3980. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3569736

This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their childhood experience with two languages, would outperform late learners in producing contrast: language-internal phonological contrast, as well as cross-ling... Read More about Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin.