More on Dongxiang Vowel System by Viktoria V. Kukanova, Zayana I. Chushkaeva

“…Dongxiang is a southern Mongolic language containing a variety of archaic features that seem promising for comparative historical linguistics. Goals. The study attempts an analysis of Dongxiang vowel patterns introduced in works authored by Russian and foreign scientists. …”
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Novel Procedures for Evaluating Autism Online in a Culturally Diverse Population of Children: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pathway Development Study by Venus Mirzaei, Jeanne Wolstencroft, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Eleanor Buckley, Shermina Sayani, Panos Katakis, Reena Anand, Tessa Squire, Eleanor Short, Paige Frankson, David Skuse, Michelle Heys

“…The pathway is designed to be culturally and linguistically adaptable, increasing its applicability to diverse populations and integrating with existing National Health Service digital systems. …”
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W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts by Emmanuel Ofuasia (csp)

“…Through the method of conversational philosophy, this research interrogates the linguistic and logical assumptions with which the West quizzed pre-colonial Africans. …”
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THE ROLE OF GENDER IN THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN ONLINE INTERACTIONS: KURDISH INTERLOCUTORS AS NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS by Bikhtiyar Fattah

“…It aims at figuring out the contributive role of language to the identification of the interlocutors’ gender, determining the influence of cultural norms on shaping the online communication patterns of Kurdish interlocutors(males and females), and identifying the frequency use of the essential linguistic elements, strategies and styles that distinguishes males’ interactions from females’. …”
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A Comparative Study of Hybrid Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems to Predict the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Rocks by Annabelle Graham, Emma Scott

“…ANFIS excels in effortlessly amalgamating expert knowledge using linguistic rules and empirical data, thus enhancing model interpretability and transparency, qualities profoundly esteemed in the geosciences. …”
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EMI Dynamics: An Empirical Study on Students’ Perspectives at Tertiary Level in Türkiye by Özçelik Arzu Ekoç, Kavanoz Suzan, Yılmaz Selahattin

“…Utilizing the culturally and linguistically adapted form of Yeh’s (2014) EMI questionnaire, the study focused on students’ backgrounds, motivations, and attitudes towards EMI courses, challenges, learning strategies, and beliefs about EMI policies. …”
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Images of the Pleiades of the Turkic and Mongolic Peoples by Marina M. Sodnompilova, Bair Z. Nanzatov

“…The sources of the study were historical and ethnographic data published in the works of researchers — ethnographers, historians, linguists, folklore materials, as well as materials of the author’s field research. …”
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COLLOCATIONAL PATTERNS AND SENSE RELATIONS IN THE EXPLICATION OF MEANING IN ARMAH’S NOVELS by GODWIN F. AKPAN

“…Armah has enjoyed a lot of literary analysis and criticisms, this present work seeks to study scientifically his word choice as a further contribution to the corpus literature (both literary and linguistic) on him. We opined that rather than see Armah’s choice of words as bothering on obscenities, his choices should appreciated given the burden of the themes he seeks to share with his readers. …”
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Social Media as a Digital Communication Tool for Academic Library Marketing: A Systematic Literature Review by Wathsala Athukorala, Chaminda Chiran Jayasundara

“…The review underscores the importance of user-centred strategies, targeted communication, and linguistic adaptability including politeness strategies and register variation to optimize digital outreach. …”
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Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“… African linguistic complexity is often defined in terms of its multilingualism and a complicated colonial sociolinguistic heritage. …”
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Natural selection and adaptive traits in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer society from Mainland Southeast Asia by Tobias Herzog, Maximilian Larena, Wibhu Kutanan, Helmut Lukas, Martin Fieder, Helmut Schaschl

“…Abstract Asia is home to diverse hunter-gatherer populations characterized by significant morphological, anthropological, cultural, and linguistic diversity. Despite their importance in understanding ancestral human subsistence, little is known about the essential genetic adaptations of these groups. …”
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RETRACTED: Protecting the Rights of Minorities under International Law and Implications of COVID-19: An Overview of the Indian Context by Nehaluddin Ahmad

“…Minority protection, thus, operates on the hypothesis that religious, cultural, and linguistic affiliations are essential features of the very notion of a civic, just society. …”
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Human language technology tools for indigenous South African languages and their potential use by Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa

“…Contribution: This study fills the practical gap in the use of HLT to perform linguistic functions for SAIL. It seems that there is underutilisation of existing HLT tools for SAIL, which might be attributed to language users being unaware of these tools. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Turkish Ports: Integrated Fuzzy Entropy- Fuzzy MARCOS Analysis by Özlem Karadağ Albayrak

“…This method can provide a more accurate evaluation of the performance level of ports and its use in the planning and effective use of port investments.Originality: This research fills the gap in the literature in three ways: (1) Evaluatee the application of triangular fuzzy numbers to the panel data, which will provide effective inferences about the performanse level of the selected ports, (2) Evaluated a weighting approach using Entropy method that takes into account the distances of triangular fuzzy numbers consisting of real numbers instead of linguistic expressions, (3) An Entropy-based MARCOS method is proposed for solving the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem involving the performanse analysis of Turkish ports.…”
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Devising Yorùbá Terminology for Phonology Terms (from letter P to letter R) by Oyetayo A Bankale, Oye Taiwo, Rukayat Olawale

“…In doing this, we extracted these phonology terms from three phonology textbooks and two specialized/technical dictionaries on linguistics and phonology. We employed the Information Processing Model (IPM) framework. …”
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O rozumiejąco-przeżyciowym podejściu do nauki czytania i pisania (na przykładzie strategii „Skuteczne zdziwienie. Wyzwalamy myślenie”) by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

“…The findings revealed three categories of children’s learning: 1) by speaking (observing and experiencing linguistic behavior, elaboration – giving meaning to memories, generation – creating lasting memories, learning by questioning – formulating questions that are important from the child’s perspective, listening and exchanging ideas and opinions); 2) perceptual learning (using body intelligence, making analogies); and 3) learning by doing (creating model examples, contrasting cases. …”
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Pengembangan Instrumen Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis pada Pembelajaran Matematika SMA by Budi Harjo, Sudarmadi Putra, Kafin Jaladri, Joko Subando

“…The results indicated that both the construction material and linguistic/readability aspects achieved validity values above 0.5, confirming the instrument’s suitability for high school mathematics learning. …”
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Pre-primary school teacher training program in Kotebe University of Education: provision and policy implications by Abunu Arega Yismaw

“…Pre-primary education provides a stimulating environment for the physical, intellectual, linguistic, social, and emotional development of children. …”
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A Comparison Between the MEWMA and Mahalanobis Distance Control Chart by Kawa Rashid

“…This paper aims to compare the MEWMA and Mahalanobis distance chart for three compounds for water drinking production in the ALA -Factory in the Sulaimani-Iraq region. So, linguistic terms can be used instead of the exact value of the continuous random variable. …”
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Bridging the cultural gap in Bible translation as a case in point by C. Nord

“… Translation practitioners have always been aware of the fact that translation is not a purely linguistic operation but a means of facilitating communication between members of different cultures. …”
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