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Efficient state reduction methods for PLA-based sequential circuits [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Experiences with heuristics for the state reduction of finite-state machines are presented and two new heuristic algorithms described in detail. Results on machines from the literature and from the MCNC benchmark set are shown.
Avedillo de Juan, María José   +2 more
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GRAMMATICALIZATION IN NIGERIAN PIDGIN GRAMATICALIZACIÓN EN EL PIDGIN NIGERIANO

open access: yesIkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012
Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process.
Eyo Offiong Mensah
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Pidgin afroportugués del Atlántico

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012
El presente artículo establece que las lenguas criollas de base ibérica de América (saramacca, papiamento y palenquero) se encuentran relacionadas genealógicamente con los criollos portugueses de África Occidental (caboverdiano, kriol de Guinea-Bissau ...
Mario Portilla Chaves
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Reconstrucción fonológica del pidgin afroportugués americano: Las consonantes

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012
En el presente artículo presenta la reconstrucción de las protoconsonantes de un pidgin afroportugués utilizado en América durante el siglo XVII mediante la aplicación del Método Comparativo.
Mario Portilla Chaves
doaj   +1 more source

Immigrant speech, creoles, and the ‘basic variety’: a usage-based account of some traits in the Portuguese-based creoles

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
In order to account for some key structures in immigrant Spanish, 15th-16th-century African Portuguese, pidgin Portuguese, and the Portuguese-based creoles, we appeal to a model of Emergent Grammar in which linguistic structure emerges from frequency and
Renaud Beeckmans
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Human Language Origins: Icon for Evolution or a Higher Order? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In his text Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells endeavors to reveal some of the many discrepancies supported as scientific fact in current evolution literature.
Lopiccolo, Dominique
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On the Origins of Pidgin and Creole Languages: An Outline

open access: yesStyles of Communication, 2009
Pidgin and creole languages are usually the result of contacts between people who do not speak each other’s language. When they meet for different purposes (trade, business, plantation work) they immediately look for a quick means of communication. Thus,
Aleksandra Knapik
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