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Afro-Mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity in the African Diaspora (2008)
Book
Githiora, C. (2008). Afro-Mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity in the African Diaspora. Africa World Press

Ethnographic Discourse centred study of identity in a Afro-Mexican community. The book explores the links and connections with the broader African diaspora communities located in the Americas. A historical background based on archival research is inc... Read More about Afro-Mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity in the African Diaspora.

The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited (2008)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2008). The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited. In S. Kuno, I.-H. Lee, J. Whitman, J. Maling, Y.-S. Kang, P. Sells, H.-S. Sohn, & Y. Jang (Eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII (137-150). Hanshin Publishing Company

This study examined the production of the two-way laryngeal contrast in Korean sibilant fricatives in two experiments covering low and high vowel environments. Acoustic analyses show that in a low vowel environment, the two fricatives differ from eac... Read More about The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited.

North and West African languages (2008)
Book Chapter
Jaggar, P. J., & Lüpke, F. (2008). North and West African languages. In P. Austin (Ed.), 1000 languages. The worldwide history of living and lost tongues (60-85). Thames and Hudson

Tense consonants in Korean revisited: A crosslinguistic perceptual study (2007)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2007). Tense consonants in Korean revisited: A crosslinguistic perceptual study. In C. B. Chang, E. Dugarova, I. Theodoropoulou, E. Vilar Beltrán, & E. Wilford (Eds.), CamLing 2006: Proceedings of the 4th University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (35-42). Cambridge Institute of Language Research

The well-described laryngeal system of Korean has most often been analyzed as a typologically unique contrast among three kinds of voiceless plosives: aspirated, lax, and tense. This paper focuses on the phonetics of the tense series by examining the... Read More about Tense consonants in Korean revisited: A crosslinguistic perceptual study.

Tone production in whispered Mandarin (2007)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B., & Yao, Y. (2007). Tone production in whispered Mandarin. In J. Trouvain, & W. J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (1085-1088). Pirrot

Acoustic analyses of normal voiced and whispered Mandarin Chinese reveal significant differences in duration and intensity among the four lexical tones, differences that are moreover similar across the two speech genres. In contrast to previous claim... Read More about Tone production in whispered Mandarin.

The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber (2007)
Book Chapter
Souag, L. (2007). The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber. In N. Hilton, R. Arscott, K. Barden, A. Krishna, S. Shah, & M. Zellers (Eds.), CamLing 2007: Proceedings of the Fifth University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (237-244). Cambridge Institute of Language Research

The question of which numbers are most easily borrowed, and in which contexts, has implications for an understanding both of historical change and language contact and of the extent to which the linguistic behaviour of numbers can be related to indep... Read More about The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber.

Portrayals of British Individuals in Malay Literature (2007)
Book Chapter
Murtagh, B. (2007). Portrayals of British Individuals in Malay Literature. In V. Braginsky, & B. Murtagh (Eds.), The Portrayal of Foreigners in Indonesian and Malay Literatures Essays on the Ethnic "Other" (107-164). The Edwin Mellen Press

Esmail Khois Rueckkehr nach Borgio Verezzi. [Esmail Khois' Return to Borgio Verezzi] (2007)
Book
Mina, N. (2007). Esmail Khois Rueckkehr nach Borgio Verezzi. [Esmail Khois' Return to Borgio Verezzi]. Most-Verlag

Esmail Khoi’s poem Return to Borgio Verezzi (written in March 1983 and first published in 1984) belongs to the key texts of post-revolution Persian exile literature. Esmail Khoi is one of the leading voices of Persian poetry in the second half of the... Read More about Esmail Khois Rueckkehr nach Borgio Verezzi. [Esmail Khois' Return to Borgio Verezzi].

Southern Bantu Languages (2006)
Book Chapter
Marten, L. (2006). Southern Bantu Languages. In K. Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd ed.; vol.11 (595-598). Elsevier

On translating Somali poetry (2006)
Book Chapter
Orwin, M. (2006). On translating Somali poetry. In T. Hermans (Ed.), Translating Others (402-413). St Jerome Publishing

Zhang Zi shige chuangzuo yu yuanlin yaqu. [Elegant Aspects of Zhang Zi [1153-1212+]'s Poetry and His Garden Activities] (2005)
Book Chapter
Lo, A. (2005). Zhang Zi shige chuangzuo yu yuanlin yaqu. [Elegant Aspects of Zhang Zi [1153-1212+]'s Poetry and His Garden Activities]. In T. Zhang (Ed.), Disanjie Songdai wenxue guoji yantaohui lunwenji (250-274). Ningxia renmin chubanshe

Studies on the scholar-official Zhang Zi’s poetry are rare. This article discusses how he aimed to create a pure, leisured and elegant style in both his life and in his poetry. Section one introduces his illustrious family background, being a great-... Read More about Zhang Zi shige chuangzuo yu yuanlin yaqu. [Elegant Aspects of Zhang Zi [1153-1212+]'s Poetry and His Garden Activities].

Writing Home. Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature (2004)
Book
Dodd, S. (2004). Writing Home. Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1tg5m45

This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 189... Read More about Writing Home. Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature.