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Books to the Masses! An Investigation of Russian WWI ‘Dime Stories’
Literature, 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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Man, nature, and semiotic modelling or How to create forests and backyards with language
Sign 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
Frontiers 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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Information, 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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The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
, 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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Egophoricity, Involvement, and Semantic Roles in Tibeto-Burman Languages
Open Linguistics, 2017 In this study, we explore typological aspects of egophoricity marking based on selected Tibeto- Burman languages. Conceptualizing egophoricity as an autonomous grammatical category that marks access to knowledge, we first discuss how egophoricity marking
Widmer Manuel, Zúñiga Fernando
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Strategies of Indefiniteness Marking in Central Sicilian—Evidence from the Dialect of Delia
Languages, 2023 This paper is meant as a contribution to the research project on variation and optionality in the determiner system in Italo-Romance, with novel data from the Sicilian dialect of Delia. The study is based on fieldwork interviews and the construction of a
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
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Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Comparative Linguistics
, 2023 Two 2023 Workshops on Language and Linguistics: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Comparative ...
Sun-Woong Kim
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Stative vs. Eventive Participles in an Arbëresh Variety under the Influence of the Italian Language
Languages, 2023 In this paper, I explore the properties and the uses of the past participles in the Arbëresh variety of S. Nicola dell’Alto, an Albanian dialect still spoken in Southern Italy, which has been in contact with Italo-Romance varieties for more than five ...
Giuseppina Turano
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Open Research Europe, 2021 In the summer of 2017, the young group Arran coordinated a series of protests in Barcelona and other Spanish cities to denounce the negative effects of global mass tourism.
Alexander Araya López
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