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Structural and Semantic Features of Oman’s Toponyms as the Reflection of the Country’s Linguistic Situation and Material and Non-Material Culture

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2023
Toponyms of the Sultanate of Oman so far have not been studied in Russian linguistics in general, and in Russian Arabic studies, in particular. Due to the fact that in Oman there is a specific landscape and peculiar material culture, and the local ...
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Rahbi   +1 more
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Robot Navigation in Unseen Spaces using an Abstract Map

open access: yes, 2020
Human navigation in built environments depends on symbolic spatial information which has unrealised potential to enhance robot navigation capabilities.
Corke, Peter   +3 more
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Special features of adaptation of substrate place names of Plain Cilicia in ancient Greek [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
The article focuses on the principles of transmission and the features of adaptation of the substrate toponyms of Plain Cilicia in the ancient Greek language.
Alla Linko
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Wschodniosłowiańskie imię Chodor i jego polski odpowiednik Teodor jako podstawy toponimów w Polsce

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2021
The article focuses on toponyms based on the names Chodor and Teodor. The compilation of 35. certified toponyms between XIV and XX c. divides them into two groups in terms of the names’ origin. From XIV to XVIII c.
Małgorzata Magda-Czekaj
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Characterisation and social impact of urban youth languages on urban toponymy: S’ncamtho toponomastics in Bulawayo

open access: yesLiterator, 2018
This article focuses on the characterisation of S’ncamtho toponyms in Bulawayo and it goes on to measure the impact of these toponyms on the population of Bulawayo dwellers.
Sambulo Ndlovu
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Fingalian topographies: Ossian and the Highland Tour 1760-1805 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
If Ossian validated the Highland landscape for eighteenth-century tourists, the landscape, in turn, seemed to authenticate poems whose authenticity never ceased to be doubted; but text and topography alike ran the risk of dissolving into insubstantiality.
Leask, Nigel
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Unnamed locations, underspecified regions, and other linguistic phenomena in geographic annotation of water-based locations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This short paper investigates how locations in or close to water masses in topics and documents (e.g. rivers, seas, oceans) are referred to. For this study, 13 topics from the GeoCLEF topics 2005-2008 aiming at documents on rivers, oceans, or sea ...
Leveling, Johannes
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An overiew of the toponymy of the Bay of Kotor

open access: yesStudia Lexicographica, 2019
The paper deals with around 500 toponyms in the Bay of Kotor. In the introdoctury part of the paper, basic historic and demographic data are given. In the main part, the toponyms are categorised according to motivation and etymology. The Bay of Kotor has
Domagoj Vidović
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The role of numerals in the formation and functioning of the toponymic system: complex approach

open access: yesНеофилология, 2023
The aim of the research is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of numerative toponyms on the material of the USA toponymic system. The material of the research was toponyms containing numerals from 1 to 10 in the amount of 20709 units, obtained by the ...
A. V. Urazmetova
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Computational Approaches to Exploring Persian-Accented English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Methods involving phonetic speech recognition are discussed for detecting Persian-accented English. These methods offer promise for both the identification and mitigation of L2 pronunciation errors. Pronunciation errors, both segmental and suprasegmental,
Miller, Corey
core   +2 more sources

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