This paper deals with the development of morphosyntactic taggers for spoken varieties of the Slavic minority language Rusyn. As neither annotated corpora nor parallel corpora are electronically available for Rusyn, we propose to combine existing resources from the etymologically close Slavic languages Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, and Polish and adapt them to Rusyn. Using MarMoT as tagging toolki...

are of Slavic origin, suggesting an ancestral mutation propagated through Slavic migration to Northern Romania and Eastern Germany, where our patients are living. Nevertheless, the mutation affects a CpG dinucleotide, which has a high mutation rate from 5methylated CG to TG and its complementary pair CA, suggesting that it could also be recurrent. Altogether, we show that KS patients may harbor...

This study explored the developmental correlates of undergraduates’ current racial attitudes and two factors involved in motivation to control prejudiced reactions—concern with acting prejudiced and restraint to avoid dispute. A questionnaire assessed the frequency and nature of participants’ childhood experiences with Blacks as well as perceptions of their parents’ racial attitudes. Results su...

Slavic folklore contains a variety of beliefs concerning magical animals and other imaginary liminal beings, their characteristics properties. This heritage was adopted used in the past by various children’s authors who integrated these motifs into own work. Some recent authors, on hand, show marked tendency to implement invention order convey an ecological message, often employing quasi-encycl...

Abstract Most theorists assume that the criminal courts are neutral arbiters of justice, protected by Constitution, rule law, and court records. This essay challenges those assumptions examines as a place punitive excess normalization racial abuse punishment. The explains historic origins these trends how categories “hardened” “marginal” defendants began to racialized meanings with emergence ma...

We address the role of racial antagonism in whites’ opposition to racially-targeted policies. The data come from four surveys selected for their unusually rich measurement of both policy preferences and other racial attitudes: the 1986 and 1992 National Election Studies, the 1994 General Social Survey, and the 1995 Los Angeles County Social Survey. They indicate that such opposition is more str...

Steven Franks (1996) in his Reflections piece from the Journal of Slavic Linguistics made a comment that “...the walls that divide us [linguists] are coming down all over. What’s next?”, he asked. “Cognitive Science?” I think the answer to this question is a definite yes. The ability to produce and comprehend language is crucial for functioning in our society, and for the past two decades, ling...

The paper attempts to give a phonetic reconstruction of the processes surrounding the loss of the glottal stop as the reflex of the inherited Proto-Slavic acute. With support from typological evidence and phonetic analysis, it is claimed that the variation in modern Slavic reflexes of the acute results from differing outcomes of the disappearance of the glottal stop: metathesis, straightforward...

Although ATR has been in the research focus for over a decade now, most approaches have been developed for highly positional languages, whereas only a few efforts have been made for Slavic languages which have a richer morphological inflection and a more relaxed word order, e.g., Vintar (2004) (for Slovene) and Nenadic et al. (2003) (for Serbian). In this paper, we report on our experiments in ...