Carolyn O'Meara

TL;DR: The importance of Indigenous knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity is discussed in this paper. But the authors do not consider the impact of language and culture on the health of humans.

TL;DR: In this article, the conceptual and methodological framework for the special issue Frames of reference in Mesoamerican languages is presented, which reports on the use of frames of reference (FoRs) in eight Meso-American languages and two non-Meso-american control languages.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of discourse context in relative clause processing and concluded that object relative clauses violate more discourse expectations in typical experimental contexts than subject relative clauses, and extended the work of Mak et al. (2008) by demonstrating in region-by-region reading that full noun phrase object relative clause are not more difficult to process than subject relatives when they are preceded by appropriate discourse contexts.

TL;DR: Novel data from the olfactory lexicon of Seri, a language isolate of Mexico, is presented, which sheds new light onto the possibilities for Olfactory terminologies.

TL;DR: The authors discuss four issues related to establishing rights and access to legacy language materials: determining what "community" they should be associated with, establishing rights retroactively and accessing "orphan" works, assessing the sensitivities associated with different genres.