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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsIn the critical literature devoted to the L.N. Tolstoy’s novel «War and Peace», the contradictory contexts of usage of the lexemes мiръ / миръ / мир and their relation to homonymy, were repeatedly discussed.
Marina O. Chichina
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract The present study investigated learning new meanings of known words from reading, following Hulme et al.’s (2018) study. English speakers read four short stories containing 16 critical words (i.e., familiar word forms assigned invented secondary meanings).
Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Irina Elgort
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HOMONYMS IN FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN DICTIONARIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE(based on the homonym ‘lie’)
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016 The article analyses various ways of representing homonyms in different types of dictionaries of the English language (bilingual and monolingual). The author considers the influence of these representative methods on students’ perception of homonyms ...
I Y Cherepanov
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A new name and a new synonym in Miconia (Melastomataceae)
PhytoKeys, 2011 The name Miconia densiflora Cogniaux is a later homonym of M. densiflora (Gardner) Naudin, but since we propose it as a taxonomic synoym of M. caudata (Bonpl.) DC., we do not provide a new name. The name Miconia longicuspis Herzog is a later homonym of M.
Renato Goldenberg, Susanne Renner
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018 Over the past 40 years, extensive research has examined the effectiveness of mnemonics for vocabulary learning. Much of this research has investigated the keyword method (Atkinson & Raugh, 1975), which involves linking an image related to a to-be ...
Charles M. Mueller
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Ambiguous words have multiple meanings. How these multiple meanings interact with each other during ambiguous word learning remains unclear. The current study adopted an event-related potentials (ERPs) technique to explore whether there is an interaction
Yuanyue Zhang +3 more
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SUPERIOR HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPSIA [PDF]
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1892 n ...
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On Making Informed Decisions Regarding Clustering Event Logs in Process Discovery
Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT Process discovery is intended to machine‐learn process models by analysing event logs that record how real processes work. The resulting models tend to be complex because they must account for all the variability in the event logs. It is agreed that clustering the input event log prior to discovery may result in better models.
Belén Ramos‐Gutiérrez +5 more
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