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The digital fandom of Na'vi speakers

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2015
Few academic studies have focused on the fans of created or constructed languages. One reason behind this may be the popular impression, intensified by the media, that speakers of these languages are obsessed fans or fanatics.
Christine Schreyer
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Book review: Policy without politicians: bureaucratic influence in comparative perspective [PDF]

, 2013
"Policy Without Politicians: Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective." Edward C. Page. Oxford University Press. September 2012. --- In Policy without Politicians a leading expert on public policy has devoted four years to interviewing middle ...
Hogwood, Patricia
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AP17-OLR Challenge: Data, Plan, and Baseline

, 2017
We present the data profile and the evaluation plan of the second oriental language recognition (OLR) challenge AP17-OLR. Compared to the event last year (AP16-OLR), the new challenge involves more languages and focuses more on short utterances. The data
Chen, Qing, Chen, Yixiang, Tang, Zhiyuan, Wang, Dong   +3 more
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Constructing a Second Language [PDF]

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2009
All the papers in this special section address issues central to cognitive linguistics research: usage-based models with their focus on frequency; multi-word units and the relationship between lexical and grammatical knowledge; and the nature of lexical meaning, especially construal or “thinking for speaking”.
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Langue(s) et utopie – I : Remarques générales

Kentron, 2010
The aim of this paper is to give an overview on the relations the language and languages bear to utopia. Thus, on the one hand, the paper explores the range of constructed languages (conlangs), whether they are created consciously
Nicole Guilleux
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Formats of Winning Strategies for Six Types of Pushdown Games

, 2010
The solution of parity games over pushdown graphs (Walukiewicz '96) was the first step towards an effective theory of infinite-state games. It was shown that winning strategies for pushdown games can be implemented again as pushdown automata. We continue
Alexander Rabinovich, Alonzo Church, Alonzo Church, Angelo Montanari, Christof Löding, D. Gale, E. Allen Emerson, Igor Walukiewicz, Julius R. Büchi, Margherita Napoli, Mimmo Parente, Moshe Y. Vardi, Olivier Finkel, Orna Kupferman, Rajeev Alur, Rina S. Cohen, Rina S. Cohen, Thierry Cachat, Victor L. Selivanov, Wladimir Fridman, Wolfgang Thomas   +20 more
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WORLDMAKING VIA CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE ACTS

Modernism and Postmodernism Studies Network, 2020
In 1978, Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking” to show that several other “worlds” may exist along with the single “world” that most think they know. To be after a single absolute meaning of the “world” in the post-Derridean and post-Saussurean world may already sound anachronistic.
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Notoriété des langues construites

RiCognizioni
Awareness of constructed languages There are many constructed languages, but awareness of them among the general public is low. In 2022, the Espéranto-Développement-45 association carried out a survey to find out how well known 10 constructed ...
Pierre Dieumegard
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EFAS Score – Multilingual Development and Validation of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) by the Score Committee of the European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS)

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2019
Category: Basic Sciences/Biologics Introduction/Purpose: A scientifically sound validated foot and ankle specific outcome measure for different European languages is still missing.
Martinus Richter MD, PhD, Per-Henrik Agren MD, Jean-Luc Besse MD, PhD, Maria Cöster MD, Hakon Kofoed MD, Nicola Maffulli MD, MS, FRCS, PhD, Dieter Rosenbaum, Martijn Steultjens, Fernando Alvarez MD, Andrzej Boszczyk MD, PhD, Kristian Buedts MD, Marco Guelfi MD, Henryk Liszka, Jan-Willem Louwerens MD, Jussi P. Repo MD, PhD, Elena Samaila MD, Michael Stephens MD, MSc, FRCSI, Angelique G. H. Witteveen MD   +17 more
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Synthesizing Program Input Grammars

, 2017
We present an algorithm for synthesizing a context-free grammar encoding the language of valid program inputs from a set of input examples and blackbox access to the program.
Albarghouthi A., Cadar C., Cho C. Y., Forrester J. E., Godefroid P., Holler C., Huang L., Lee L., Oncina J., Solomonoff R. J., Sutton M., Sutton M., Vardhan A., Viide J., Wondracek G.   +14 more
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