Journal Article

The multilingual workplace realities of Polish truckers: A case study in the Netherlands

This ethnographic case study examines how Polish truckers navigate multilingual workplace interactions in the Netherlands, revealing challenges in lingua franca communication and attitudes that impact effective workplace communication.

Nov 18, 2020

Vowel deletion in two Aymara varieties

This paper compares vowel deletion processes in Contemporary and Historical Aymara varieties, highlighting their phonotactic, syntactic, and morphophonemic conditioning factors.

Jan 1, 2020

Verbal art as heuristic for semantic analyses: How non-prosodic poetic structure in the verbal art of Muylaq' Aymara (Muylaque, Peru) reveals semantic categories

This paper analyzes a traditional Aymara song from Peru, revealing semantic categories through non-prosodic poetic structure that would be missed in conventional linguistic analysis.

Jan 1, 2020

An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Activities on Public Space Users' Descriptions of Their Auditory Environments on Site: The Case of Amsterdam

This study explores how public space users' activities influence their descriptions of auditory environments in an Amsterdam park, using soundscape and psycholinguistic analyses.

May 10, 2019

Public space users' soundscape evaluations in relation to their activities: An Amsterdam-based study

This mixed-methods study examines how public space users in Amsterdam evaluate soundscapes in relation to their activities, exploring the influence of social interaction levels, familiarity, and expectations.

Aug 29, 2018

Introduction: Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Narratives in Indigenous Peruvian Languages

This introduction presents a special volume featuring narratives from 13 different indigenous language families in Peru, spanning Amazonian and Andean regions.

Apr 1, 2018

Aymara

This paper presents and analyzes a traditional Andean bear narrative in Muylaq' Aymara, a variety spoken by approximately 200 people in the lowlands of Moqeugua, Peru.

Apr 1, 2018

Considering Sound in Planning and Designing Public Spaces: A Review of Theory and Applications and a Proposed Framework for Integrating Research and Practice

We demonstrate the potential of integrating sound in planning and designing public spaces, synthesizing diverse literature into a framework for experiential aspects of sound that bridges research and practice.

Aug 1, 2016

The Grammatical Expression of Dialogicity in Muylaq'Aymara Narratives

This article examines how dialogicity is expressed grammatically in Aymara oral narratives through tense, evidentiality, and the verb 'say'.

Apr 1, 2014

A descriptive analysis of Castellano loanwords into Muylaq'Aymara

This study examines how Spanish loanwords are morphologically and semantically adapted when incorporated into Muylaq'Aymara, revealing patterns of semantic expansion, restriction, and grammatical reanalysis.

Nov 28, 2013