Overcoming Aggressive Monolingualism: Prejudices and Linguistic Diversity in Russian Megalopolises

Pancreatic surgery in the elderly: overcoming the prejudices

The percentage of the world’s population aged over 65 years is rising, with an estimate that average life expectancy will increase from 75.9 years in 1995 to 79.1 years in 2025 [1]. Based on this growing elderly population, a consequent rise in age-related diseases like cancer should be expected [2]. Taking these facts into account, many studies have tried to prove the safety of surgical resect...

Voicing in Russian Stops: Cross-linguistic implications

This paper presents the results of an investigation of voicing in utterance-initial and intervocalic stops in monolingual Russian speakers. Prevoicing was found in over 97% of the lenis stops; over 97% of the intervocalic stops were fully voiced. Utterance-initial fortis stops were pronounced as voiceless unaspirated and had short positive VOT. Intervocalic fortis stops were completely voiceles...

Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution

This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad crosssection of countries. We use the notion of “linguistic distances” and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances, yields insignificant results. However, once distances between languages are accounted for, linguistic diversity has both a statistically and econ...

Linguistic diversity and universals

RuThes Linguistic Ontology vs. Russian Wordnets

The paper describes the structure and current state of RuThes – thesaurus of Russian language, constructed as a linguistic ontology. We compare RuThes structure with the WordNet structure, describe principles for inclusion of multiword expressions, types of relations, experiments and applications based on RuThes. For a long time RuThes has been developed within various NLP and informationretrie...