Book Review: Transnational Aspects of Iu-Mien Refugee Identity

Phonetic variation in Iu-Mien vowels

The study presents an acoustic analysis of the phonetic variation in Iu-Mien vowels, not only for modal voice, but also for creaky and pharyngealized vowels. Our findings are contrasted with those of Purnell [1, 2] and Bruhn [3].

Modeling Iu Mien tone with eigenpitch representations

To achieve adequate description of an understudied tone language, we argue for unsupervised computational modeling of lexical tone, even at the earliest stages of documentation. We apply a technique using eigenvalues and discriminant analysis to differentiate lexical tones on monosyllabic items in Iu Mien. The resulting ‘eigenpitch’ representations can be used to evaluate the differences and si...

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Book Review: 'The Question of Justice and Identity in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad'

Ahmed Saadawi’s third and last novel Frankenstein in Baghdad was originally published in Arabic in 2013 and has since been translated into several languages, including an English translation by Jonathan Wright in 2018. The novel, which won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, is a heart-rending story of a country blighted by an unending cycle of war, violence, and misery. Saadawi’s ...

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