In this paper, we compare tone perception by speakers from different language backgrounds (L1s) including Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, and Indo-European languages such as English, French, and German. We focus on how two phonetic cues i.e., pitch height and pitch slope, affect perception of pitch direction. Significant differences are found in the degrees of sensitivity to the two cues across L1 g...

Numerous attempts have beenmade to compare different types of languages from the viewpoint of their quantitative characteristics. We present a piece of research in five Indo-European languages focused on length of sentences and words, not drawing any general conclusions but bringing some partial findings about these languages’ general measurable features.

This article explores senses of belonging three Indo-European generations and examines how these are influenced by roots travel to contemporary Indonesia. We use the notion tourism refer ancestral homelands ‘experience heritage at personal level’. While has gained scholarly attention, multiple diasporic often studied as a single phenomenon. By analysing life story interviews with Indo-Europeans...

The Greek ἦμαρ and the Armenian awr, both meaning 'day', are uniformly considered to be cognates without further correspondences within Indo-European. There is, however, no consensus with respect details of this etymological connection. connection between ἡμέρα has thus far not found a satisfying solution concerning origin rough breathing latter. Drawing elaborating on an etymology proposed for...

In participating in this evaluation campaign, our first objective is to analyze the retrieval effectiveness when using TEL (The European Library) corpora composed of very short descriptions (library catalogue records) and to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness of several IR models. As a second objective we want to design and evaluate a stopword list and a light stemming strategy for the Persia...

The present study was carried out in the Indo-European speaking tribal population groups of Southern Gujarat, India to investigate and reconstruct their paternal population structure and population histories. The role of language, ethnicity and geography in determining the observed pattern of Y haplogroup clustering in the study populations was also examined. A set of 48 bi-allelic markers on t...

We propose a new algorithm, DK-vec, for aligning pairs of Asian/Indo-European noisy parallel texts without sentence boundaries. The algorithm uses frequency, position and recency information as features for pattern matching. Dynamic Time Warping is used as the matching technique between word pairs. This algorithm produces a small bilingual lexicon which provides anchor points for alignment.

The English word "health" comes from the Old English word hale, meaning "wholeness, a state of being and feeling whole, sound or well" [1]. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "kailo", meaning "whole, uninjured, of good omen". Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic root "khalbas", meaning "something (un)divided". [...].

Language evolution is traditionally described in terms of family trees with ancestral languages splitting into descendent languages. However, it has long been recognized that language evolution also entails horizontal components, most commonly through lexical borrowing. For example, the English language was heavily influenced by Old Norse and Old French; eight per cent of its basic vocabulary i...