Linguistic Interventions and Transformative Communicative Disruption [PDF]
, 2020 What words we use, and what meanings they have, is important. We shouldn't use slurs; we should use 'rape' to include spousal rape (for centuries we didn’t); we should have a word which picks out the sexual harassment suffered by people in the workplace ...
Sterken, Rachel Katharine
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Correction to: Spoken Language Change in Children on the Autism Spectrum Receiving Community-Based Interventions. [PDF]
J Autism Dev Disord, 2023 Trembath D +20 more
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Diagnostic Challenge in Frontal Variant Alzheimer's Disease With Low Amyloid‐β PET Retention
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diagnosing frontal variant Alzheimer's disease (fvAD) is difficult and could be even more difficult when amyloid‐beta (Aβ) PET retention is low. A 63‐year‐old woman presenting with a 3‐year history of apathy and memory impairment showed executive dysfunction, memory impairment, and severe bilateral frontotemporal atrophy on MRI.
Ryosuke Shimasaki +5 more
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The Failure of “She: An Evaluation of Solutions to Gendered Language [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis looks at the prevalence of gendered language in modern day English in North America. Drawing upon different analyses of masculine pronouns and slang, this paper argues that modern solutions to gendered language fail to come to terms with the ...
Bobbitt, Mary L
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Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language [PDF]
, 2004 We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary ...
Aerts, Diederik +2 more
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Shift of use of capital (upper case) letters in english and Latvian marketing texts
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2007 This paper is largely observational. It discusses shifts in capitalization practices in marketing texts in Latvian. Two of the observed shifts are changes in accepted Latvian orthography (in Latvian texts) and one is an extension of Latvian changes into ...
Eva Birzniece
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Mudança linguística no modo imperativo – uma análise multissistêmica
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2011 From a corpus made up of dramatic texts produced in Brazil’s southeast region between 1850 and 1975, our research aims to study speakers’ usage of the imperative mood in the singular form during this period of time. Our intention was to investigate usage
Henrique Santos Braga
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Drift as a Driver of Language Change: An Artificial Language Experiment. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2022 Ventura R, Plotkin JB, Roberts G.
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HPDL Variant Type Correlates With Clinical Disease Onset and Severity
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Recently, a mitochondrial encephalopathy due to biallelic HPDL variants was described, associated with a broad range of clinical manifestations ranging from severe, infantile‐onset neurodegeneration to adolescence‐onset hereditary spastic paraplegia. HPDL converts 4‐hydroxyphenylpyruvate acid (4‐HPPA) into 4‐hydroxymandelate (4‐HMA),
Eun Hye Lee +19 more
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, 2002 Excerpt: Within Irish drama of the late 20\u27h century, the use of language as a marker for lrishness begins to shift away from a focus on accents and Hiberno-English, towards a use of language that attempts to actually establish new truths: truths ...
Heininge, Kathleen A.
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