Fenomena Musik Ring Back Tone (RBT): Kapitalisme, Budaya Popular, dan Gaya Hidup

Language Survival, Popular Literacy, and Tone Marking

Previously nonliterary indigenous languages are disappearing quickly. We argue that popular literacy gives those languages a chance for survival. Popular literacy requires economically successful publishing industries that produce economically accessible reading materials ) books, newspapers, comic books ) and an orthography that speakers find easy to use when reading and writing. Evidence from...

Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song

We examine the degree of correspondence between musical and linguistic tone sequences in a corpus of 20 Vietnamese popular songs. Our data suggest that text-setting constraints in Vietnamese, as in some other Asian tone languages, are based primarily on the direction of the pitch transition from one syllable/note to the next. Borrowing some musical terminology, we may say that ‘similar motion’ ...

Brugia timori INFECTION IN LEKEBAI, FLORES. clinical aspects

Pengamatan filariasis pada penduduk Nualolo-Lekebai, Pulau Flores telah dilakukan pada bulan Februan 1975. Kampung Nualolo-Lekebai berpenduduk 680 jiwa, pekerjaan bertani dun menganut agama Nasmni. Kebiasaan hidup di antara pendudu k di daerah ini adalah menyerahkan peh ksanuan pekerjaan berat pada kaum wanita, baik di rumah ataupun di kebun. Dalam perjalanan jauh baik ke kebun atau ke pasar, h...

Litholapaxy at Gaya Pilgrim Hospital

Abdominal Surgery at Gaya Hospital