Germanic philology pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Tsimshian texts /

Issued also without document series note (Bureau edition)

Kathlamet texts,

57th Cong., 2d sess. House. Doc. no.456

Reprinted glossaries,

Issued in 4 parts (nos. 1, 5, 6, and 23 of the society's Publications, forming vols. II and III, no. 1) Each part has special t.-p., contents, and index. General title in v. 1 (vol.II of the series)

Illustrations of northern antiquities, from the earlier Tentonie and Scandinavian romances; being an abstract of the Book of heroes, and Nibelungen lay; with translation of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandie languages; with notes and dissertations.

Abstract of the Eyrbiggiasaga; being the early annals of that district of Iecland lying around the promontory called Snæfells, by W. S. [i.e. Sir Walter Scott] Glossary, by R. Jamieson.

The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester.

A chronicle of the history of England to 1270 written in the dialect of Gloucestershire.

The folk-speech of Cumberland and some districts adjacent; being short stories and rhymes in the dialects of the west border counties,

"A glossary of Scotch and Cumbrian words ... in this volume," p. 163-208.

Die Berg-Maria : oder Wer nur den lieben Gott-laszt walten. Eine geschichtliche Erzahlung aus Pennsylvanien /

At head of title: Tren bis in den Tod.

Wowapi inonpa : wowapi wakan etanhan taju wanjikji oyakapi kin he dee = The second Dakota reading book : consisting of Bible stories from the Old Testament /

In the Santee dialect.

Alpenblumen; eine lese schweizerischer gedichte.

Written in Swiss dialect.

Bulletin.

No. 1. Bibliographies of lesser North American linguistic families, by Thomas Noxon Toomey.--No. 3. Proper names from the Muskhogean languages.--No. 4. Relationships of the Chitimachan linguistic family.--No. 5. Grammatical and lexical notes on the Keres language (Acoma-Laguna dialect) of the Keresan stock.--No. 6. Analysis of a text in the Apalachi language (Muskhogean stock).

Monumenta juridica. The black book of the Admiralty, with an appendix.

"Glossary of Anglo-Norman and Gascon words": p. [145]-197; "Glossary of Catalan words": p. [199]-238; "Glossary of Low-German words": p. [239]-262.

Diversification and extensible networks: The strategies of Chinese businesses in Australia

The paper reports on a study of 28 ethnic Chinese businesses in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, carried out in 2000 and 2001. It focuses on their strategies of vertical, horizontal, and unrelated diversification often combining different activities, products, and markets at the same time. It demonstrates how these practices are socially embedded in their preference for using personal networks. Non-related diversification, in particular, promotes and is facilitated by using weak ties that serve as bridges, leading into new networks (Granovetter, 1973). This can create links to Chinese of different national and dialect origins and to those of other ethnicities. It is suggested that open networks and diversification mutually interact to support each other and may have evolved in tandem from earlier, more closed and niche bound business cultures and practices.

Genetic population structure and call variation in a passerine bird, the satin bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

Geographic variation in vocalizations is widespread in passerine birds, but its origins and maintenance remain unclear. One hypothesis to explain this variation is that it is associated with geographic isolation among populations and therefore should follow a vicariant pattern similar to that typically found in neutral genetic markers. Alternatively, if environmental selection strongly influences vocalizations, then genetic divergence and vocal divergence may be disassociated. This study compared genetic divergence derived from 11 microsatellite markers with a metric of phenotypic divergence derived from male bower advertisement calls. Data were obtained from 16 populations throughout the entire distribution of the satin bowerbird, an Australian wet-forest-restricted passerine. There was no relationship between call divergence and genetic divergence, similar to most other studies on birds with learned vocalizations. Genetic divergence followed a vicariant model of evolution, with the differentiation of isolated populations and isolation-by-distance among continuous populations. Previous work on Ptilonorhynchus violaceus has shown that advertisement call structure is strongly influenced by the acoustic environment of different habitats. Divergence in vocalizations among genetically related populations in different habitats indicates that satin bowerbirds match their vocalizations to the environment in which they live, despite the homogenizing influence of gene flow. In combination with convergence of vocalizations among genetically divergent populations occurring in the same habitat, this shows the overriding importance that habitat-related selection can have on the establishment and maintenance of variation in vocalizations.

Cross-language Perception of Word-final Stops by Native Vietnamese Listeners: Preliminary Results on the Role of Specific, Non-native Phonetic Experience

This study examined the discrimination of word-final stop contrasts (/p/-/t/, /p/-/k/, /t/-/k/) in English and Thai by 12 listeners who speak Vietnamese as their first language (L1). Vietnamese shares specific phonetic realization of stops with Thai, i.e., unreleased final stop and differs from English which allows both released and unreleased final stops. These 12 native Vietnamese (NV) listeners’ discrimination accuracy was compared to that of the two listener groups (Australian English (AE), native Thai (NT)) tested in previous studies. The NV group was less accurate than the native group in discriminating both English and Thai stop contrasts. In particular, for the Thai /t/-/k/ contrast, they were significantly less accurate than the AE listeners. The present findings suggest that experience with specific (i.e., unreleased) and native phonetic realization of sounds may be essential in accurate discrimination of final stop contrasts. The effect of L1 dialect on cross-language speech perception is discussed.