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Blue Chambers, Bluebooks, and Contes Bleus: Gothic Terror and Female Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Adaptations of ‘Bluebeard’

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
With its suspenseful atmosphere, mysterious and murderous male protagonist, and magical objects, it is hardly surprising that Charles Perrault’s conte bleu ‘La Barbe bleue’ (1697) was the inspiration for numerous Gothic tales in the nineteenth century ...
Alessandro Cabiati
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TRANSLATION AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2012
TRADUCEREA ŞI LINGVISTICA COMPARATIVĂ Traducerea necesită confruntarea nu doar a structurilor semantice ale unităţilor lexicale, ci şi a categoriilor gramaticale, lexical-gramaticale, fonologice şi stilistice din limbile respective.
USM ADMIN
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The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

open access: yes, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other ...

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Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation

open access: yesLinguistics, 2022
Perfective stem allomorphy and stress are morphological traits which interact in complex ways in Romance verbal inflection. This article surveys the whole range of variation of these traits across Romance varieties, typologizes the observed interactions ...
Herce Borja
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Books to the Masses! An Investigation of Russian WWI ‘Dime Stories’

open access: yesLiterature, 2023
The impact of WWI on Russian society was immediately disruptive. This effect affected every sphere of social and cultural environs. Although previous research has established that WWI was a major topic of the cultural discourse of that time, the way in ...
Luca Cortesi
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The Comparative Element in Comparative Legal Linguistics

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2020
Abstract Fundamental legal-linguistic research includes next to monolingual approaches to the legal language also comparative approaches. Meanwhile, the epistemic value of comparative approaches is unclear in legal linguistics. Therefore, in this article different legal-linguistic comparative approaches will be scrutinized, and their ...
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Man, nature, and semiotic modelling or How to create forests and backyards with language

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2013
This paper explains how we create concepts such as the forest or the backyard through language. Reflecting on Andreas Weber’s hope for a revolution of the life sciences and a re-evaluation of the role human beings play in nature, this paper adopts as a ...
Prisca Augustyn
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Speech Rhythm Variation in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease: A Study on Different Speaking Tasks

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) usually reveal speech disorders and, among other symptoms, the alteration of speech rhythm. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to test the validity of two acoustic parameters—%V, vowel percentage and VtoV ...
Marta Maffia   +6 more
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Computing the Sound–Sense Harmony: A Case Study of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Francis Webb’s Most Popular Poems

open access: yesInformation, 2023
Poetic devices implicitly work towards inducing the reader to associate intended and expressed meaning to the sounds of the poem. In turn, sounds may be organized a priori into categories and assigned presumed meaning as suggested by traditional literary
Rodolfo Delmonte
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Theory and description in African Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them.

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