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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude, bro, girl, dear, love ...
Mariam Gagua +4 more
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020 In the course of the last two decades, nationalist politics in Scotland have pivoted away from positing a civic identity founded on traditionally Celtic motifs—clans, tartan, the Gaelic language—in order to instead imagine an independent country closely
Joe Kennedy
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 389-404, September 2026.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT When empirical bycatch data are limited, risk‐based assessments offer a valuable tool for identifying areas where marine mammals and fisheries are most likely to interact. The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is among the most vulnerable to incidental capture in gillnet fisheries.
Tiffany Goh +4 more
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Biodiversity of North Sea Pelagic Cephalopod Early Life Phases
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT Cephalopods are increasing in biomass and abundance in the North Sea. In addition to their amplified importance for the ecosystem, they have also become a relevant resource for fisheries and landings are rising. Besides a growing knowledge about cephalopod biology, many gaps exist about the early life phases (ELP) of cephalopods. For the first
Verena Vollmer +10 more
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Handwriting recognition for Scottish Gaelic [PDF]
, 2022 Like most other minority languages, Scottish Gaelic has limited tools and resources available for Natural Language Processing research and applications. These limitations restrict the potential of the language to participate in modern speech technology, while also restricting research in fields such as corpus linguistics and the Digital Humanities.
Sinclair, Mark +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigated the impact of a short intensive language course on attentional functions. We examined 33 participants of a one-week Scottish Gaelic course and compared them to 34 controls: 16 active controls who participated in courses of comparable ...
Thomas H Bak +3 more
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Études Écossaises, 2018 When Britain got involved into WW1, some Irish rebels saw an opportunity to launch a rebellion in order to obtain Home Rule and smuggled weapons from Hamburg in the teeming waters of the British Isles.
Émilie Berthillot
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