Between Phonology and Phonetics: Polish Voicing (Studies in Generative Grammar)
For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation, dialectally distributed external sandhi voicing in pre-sonorant context, and other instances of special behaviour of sonorants, leading to interesting cases of variation.
Author: Bulger Anthony A unique learning method: "Intuitive assimilation"___"My tailor is rich" are familiar words to millions. This was the first sentence of Assimil's "English Made Easy" first published in 1929. The phrase has since become synonymous with fun language-learning with an undertone of humour. Assimil courses have been regularly updated over the years but they all follow the unique, tried and tested principle of "intuitive assimilation".
The English and the Normans - Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066 - c.1220
Since the Anglo-Norman period itself, the relations beween the English and the Normans have formed a subject of lively debate. For most of that time, however, complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066 has ruled. This book first challenges that complacency, then goes on to provide the fullest explanation yet for why the two peoples merged and the Normans became English.
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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon
The ruthless cunning of the Sith Order has served the shipwrecked crew of the Omen well on the alien planet Kesh. Subjugating the superstitious Keshiri race by posing as its fabled overlords has ensured the Sith's survival -- while they struggle in secret to return to the stars. But after fifteen years on their adopted world, some among the lost tribe have grown restless and fearful that assimilation will consume their Sith heritage. Now, as rival factions begin to appear, a shocking disaster throws into doubt the Sith's future on Kesh.
Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin.