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Italian Basic Terms Blu and Azzurro: Semantic Power Assessed in the Stroop Task
Color Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 3, May/June 2026.A Stroop task revealed an asymmetry of the semantic power of the two basic “Italian blues,” blu “dark blue” and azzurro “light blue.” BLU word, rendered in dark and light blue inks, showed no significant Stroop effects. In contrast, AZZURRO word exhibited strong Stroop interference and facilitation. Higher semantic power of azzurro is argued to reflect
Galina V. Paramei +3 more
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2015 Article is devoted to identification of psychoacoustic differences between languages of Roman, Germanic and Slavic groups, as factors that hinder the learning of foreign languages and EEG-correlates of perception and recognition of foreign speech, as the
Larisa Evgenevna Deryagina +1 more
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, 2010 Witold Ma´nczak has argued that Gothic is closer to Upper German than to Middle German, closer to High German than to Low German, closer to German than to Scandinavian, closer to Danish than to Swedish, and that the original homeland of the Goths must ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Archives of impact: The politics of craters on Earth
Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2026.This paper examines Earth’s 195 confirmed impact craters as archives, exploring their cataloguing and presentation as heritage sites. It argues Western scientific framings using military language and emphasising catastrophe overlook settler colonialism’s violent histories and marginalise indigenous earth‐sky cosmologies.
Gareth Hoskins
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Special Issue Introduction “Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis”
Humanities, 2016 n ...
Bernd Fischer
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Glottodidactica, 1966 Experimental Courses of Foreign Languages at the Department of Germanic Linguistics of the Adam Mickiewicz University at ...
Ludwik Zabrocki
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Comparative analysis of English and Russian idioms of nationality and ethnicity [PDF]
, 2013 http://tartu.ester.ee/record=b2654459~S1 ...
Rikkinen, Oksana
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais
Anglophonia, 2014 This article discusses the different uses of the verb stand in earlier stages of the English language, based on data from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Maarten Lemmens
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