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The evolution of language has been a hotly debated subject with contradicting hypotheses and unreliable claims. Drawing from signalling games, dynamic population mechanics, machine learning and algebraic topology, we present a method for detecting evolutionary patterns in a sociological model of language evolution.
Abhinav Tamaskar +3 more
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Creolization is a founding concept in the understanding of contemporary Caribbean identities. It served to imagine a certain unity at a time when nationalist movements were emerging in a region where cultural diversity was sometimes a divisive factor ...
Pauline Amy de la Bretèque
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Genre forms in the children’s humoristic magazine “Veselye kartinki”: 1990s [PDF]
The article is included in the circle of studies related to the study of genre characteristics of texts. The relevance of the study is determined by the changeable nature of speech genres, each of which contains traditional (archaic) genre-forming ...
Maryina , Olga Viktorovna +1 more
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Post-Colonial Rome, and Beyond
Roman archaeology is one of the major subfields of archaeology in which post-colonial theory has flourished, and not just in relation to the role of the past in the present, but also as a means to approach the interpretation of the Roman world itself ...
Andrew Gardner
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Shakespeare’s quotations in German linguoculture: an ecolinguistic approach
The article deals with the features of eptonymized quotations from William Shakespeare in German within the framework of the translingual aspect of the ecolinguistic approach to the study of linguistic and speech phenomena.
Nataliia Onishchenko, Tetiana Smoliana
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Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
Joel Mann, Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007. Through an examination of expressive forms, musicians, and artisans in post-Katrina New Orleans, this multi-media essay explores creolization as an approach to ethnographic work that ...
Nick Spitzer
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Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning [PDF]
Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated language learning and use.
Smith, Kenny, Wonnacott, Elizabeth
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Creolization is the process through which creole languages and cultures emerge. Creolization was first used by linguists to explain how contact languages become creole languages, but now scholars in other social sciences use the term to describe new cultural expressions brought about by contact between societies and relocated peoples.
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La France contemporaine face au défi de la créolisation
Inspired by Jane Gordon's book, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon, this article examines the paradoxes of Creolization within the French context.
Nathalie Etoke
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Noms d’agent et d’instrument en haïtien : typologie, diachronie, théorie
The present work is a preliminary study of Haitian Creole (HC) deverbal agent and instrument nouns henceforth called Complex Effector Nouns (CEN, NEC in French) in -è (/ɛ/), -e (/e/) or -ez (/ez/), partially related to French CENs in -eur via two sound ...
Alain Kihm
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