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Reaching toward the Reader: James Baldwin’s Voice in “Notes of a Native Son”
This article is a close analysis of Baldwin’s voice in the essay “Notes of a Native Son.” Much has been written about Baldwin’s themes, but without his singular voice, the power of his works would not endure.
Beth Tillman
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Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies [PDF]
As in other early language traditions, premodern English poetry was written out with very light punctuation. The sparsity of manuscript punctuation appears especially problematic in the period before 1200, when poetry in English lacked visual linebreaks.
Eric Weiskott
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Enseigner/apprendre la prosodie par la lecture à voix haute de textes littéraires
Teachers apparently consider that the oral reading competence acquired in the first language can be transposed to the second language. They rarely address this issue during the language classes and when they – scarcely – do it in the language laboratory,
Marie-Françoise Bourvon
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Verbal Message and Punctuation Marking in Their Functional Interrelationships
This study presents a description of the types of functional interrelationships between verbal messages and punctuation marking within the context of individual authorial punctuation practices among Russian speakers from the late 18th to the early 21st ...
K. Ya. Seagal
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Punctuation Practice in Manuscript Sainte Geneviève 3390
The aim of the present article is to explore the scribal punctuation practice in one of Richard Rolle’s epistles, Ego dormio, in manuscript Paris Sainte Geneviève 3390.
Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas
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Nightmare at test time: How punctuation prevents parsers from generalizing
Punctuation is a strong indicator of syntactic structure, and parsers trained on text with punctuation often rely heavily on this signal. Punctuation is a diversion, however, since human language processing does not rely on punctuation to the same extent,
Augenstein, Isabelle +2 more
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A Generative Model for Punctuation in Dependency Trees
Treebanks traditionally treat punctuation marks as ordinary words, but linguists have suggested that a tree’s “true” punctuation marks are not observed (Nunberg, 1990).
Li, Xiang Lisa +2 more
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Stable Comparisons, Punctuation, and Usage
This study offers an analysis of the methods of punctuation marking for stable comparisons in the punctuation practice of the 20th and 21st centuries.
K. Ya. Seagal
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Punctuation effects in English and Esperanto texts
A statistical physics study of punctuation effects on sentence lengths is presented for written texts: {\it Alice in wonderland} and {\it Through a looking glass}. The translation of the first text into esperanto is also considered as a test for the role
Ausloos +37 more
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Punctuation systems of any language, as well as the language itself, are in constant development. In the twentieth-twenty first centuries new punctuation trends appear, some of them become dominant when placing punctuation marks with different syntactic ...
Irina Ubushaeva
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