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This was the period after the East Germanic languages had split off. Changes during this time were shared with the North Germanic dialects, i.e. Proto-Norse. Many of the changes that occurred were areal, and took time to propagate throughout a dialect continuum that was already diversifying.
Classical antiquity – Broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North ...
Syllabification (/ s ɪ ˌ l æ b ɪ f ɪ ˈ k eɪ ʃ ən /) or syllabication (/ s ɪ ˌ l æ b ɪ ˈ k eɪ ʃ ən /), also known as hyphenation, is the separation of a word into syllables, whether spoken, written [1] or signed.
The earliest known unambiguously metrical texts, and at the same time the only metrical texts with a claim of dating to the Late Bronze Age, are the hymns of the Rigveda. That the texts of the Ancient Near East (Sumerian, Egyptian or Semitic) should not exhibit metre is surprising, and may be partly due to the nature of Bronze Age writing.
i) Proto-history (c.1500 - 500 BCE) known as Vedic period. ii) Historical period after 500 BCE. East Asia East Asia Periods: Neolithic c. 7500 BCE Pengtoushan culture: North Asia North Asia Periods: Korea Korean Periods: Paleolithic c. 40,000/30,000 – c. 8000 BCE Jeulmun pottery period c. 8000 – 1500 BCE Mumun pottery period c. 1500 – 300 BCE
The time period with the highest concentration of technological innovations is labeled as a "technological revolution" A period of technological revolution (an innovation phase) is associated with economic revival. When new as well as already-proven and reliable technologies are available, interest in new technological development temporarily ...
The secular variation of a time series is its long-term, non-periodic variation (see Decomposition of time series).Whether a variation is perceived as secular or not depends on the available timescale: a variation that is secular over a timescale of centuries may be a segment of what is, over a timescale of millions of years, a periodic variation.
There are debates surrounding its significance in language acquisition, of how language teachers should address such a period in school curriculum, and what exactly language learners are processing (or not) during such a period. The phenomena of the silent period is a theory attributed to Stephen D. Krashen. [6]