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Thorndike's law of effect and its inconsistent description over the years. [PDF]
J Exp Anal BehavAbstract The law of effect, originally proposed by E. L. Thorndike in a book that was published in 1911, had a major influence on the development of studies of instrumental or operant conditioning in the twentieth century. It remains a core concept in psychology and is invariably covered in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Domjan M.
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General Information on Elephants with Emphasis on Tusks [PDF]
, 1978 A brief encyclopedic entry on elephants in ...
Shoshani, Jehskel
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The Relevance-Based Model of Context in Processing Puns [PDF]
, 2012 While the essential role context plays in the understanding of expressions and utterances has never been questioned, the way it is perceived has evolved from a static factor established prior to the process of utterance interpretation, indeed a ...
Solska, Agnieszka
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Challenging Systems of Lexical Representation
Journal of English Studies, 2008 The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of some of the most relevant heuristic parameters that have been used for the organization of the lexicon in a representative sample of formal, functional and cognitive models.
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez +1 more
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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
, 2008 The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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The Discourse of Courtly Love in Medieval Verse Narratives
EncyclopediaThis encyclopedic entry explores the vast field of courtly love poetry, romance, and other related genres, tracing the development of this topic across medieval Europe and discussing some of the major contributors.
Albrecht Classen
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Wikis in scholarly publishing [PDF]
, 2011 Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain ...
Claudia Koltzenburg +6 more
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
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The Problem of Lexicography of Chuvash Toponyms in the Aspect of Linguistic and Foreign Studies
Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThe paper discusses the scientific, theoretical and practical problems of linguistic and cultural description of Chuvash toponyms. The purpose of the study is to determine the basic principles of lexicographic fixation of Chuvash geographical names with ...
Irina P. Lukina
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