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A Preliminary Phonological Illustration of Xavante
Xavante (Glottocode: xava1240) is an indigenous language located in Central Brazil, with approximately 15,315 Xavante speakers dispersed throughout six Brazilian indigenous lands. The variety focused on in this thesis is located within the villages Ẽtênhiritipá and Wede'rã in the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Land in the state of Mato Grosso. Novel fieldwork data collection reveals that Xavante exhibits typologically unusual linguistic features, including the absence of velar consonants and, even stranger, the disallowance of non-labial codas, raising questions about the markedness hierarchy, and particularly the status of labials in the absence of other places of articulation.
Supernormal
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordina...
