The available evidence indicates that the music of a culture reflects the speech rhythm of the prevailing language. The normalized pairwise variability index (nPVI) is a measure of durational contrast between successive events that can be applied to vowels in speech and to notes in music. Music-language parallels may have implications for the acquisition of language and music, but it is unclear...

This contribution is about Kosta Marko Cepenkov, a medicater from 19th century from Prilep. The data about the treatment of diseases have been collected from the Authobiography of his son, Marko Cepenkov, the famous collector of Macedonian folk literature. The Autobiography was published in 1958 in Slavistics journal Macedonian Language in Skopje (Year IX, Vol. 1-2, 109-145).

Based on the materials of Russian dialects Outer Manchuria, this article examines previously unstudied group adverbs – place. The methods continuous sampling and descriptive-analytical analysis revealed 56 place in second edition “Dictionary Dialects Manchuria”. Despite fact that literary language are have been thoroughly studied from perspective their semantics, m...

This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spontaneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boundary tones are enhanced to mark information structuring. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic...