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Critical rhythm : the poetics of a literary life form
Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism’s most important, most vested, …
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- 9780823282043
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- 801.95 GLA c
Atypical language development in romance languages
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book covers four main conditions causing atypical language development. Part I explores the linguistic a…
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- 9789027203212
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- 263 p.; 22 cm.
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- 428 ATY a
How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary
One of the hardest problems in science is the symbol grounding problem, a question that has intrigued philosophers and linguists for more than a century. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the question has become very actual, especially within the field of robotics. The problem is that an agent, be it a robot or a human, perceives the world in analogue signals. Yet humans have the abilit…
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- 9783946234005
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- XII, 271 p.
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- 402.85 VOG h
China dreams
"The year 2019 marked a number of significant anniversaries for the People’s Republic of China (PRC), each representing different ‘Chinese dreams’. There was the centennial of the May Fourth Movement — a dream of patriotism and cultural renewal. The PRC celebrated its seventieth anniversary — a dream of revolution and national strength. It was also thirty years since the student-led P…
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- 9781760463731
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- 328 p.; 22 cm.
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- 814.18 CHI c
Fundamental approaches to software engineering : 21th international conferenc…
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2018, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed …
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- 9783319893631
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- xii, 355p. : ill.
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- 005.1 FUN f
Language vitalization through language documentation and description in the K…
This study on language vitalization and community empowerment in the Kosovar sign language community focuses on linguistic work taking place within the framework of a development co-operation project between two NGOs in Kosovo and Finland. The long-term objectives were to improve the status of Kosovar Sign Language (KosSL) and to guarantee the human (linguistic) rights of Deaf language users â€â€¦
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- 9789086560004
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- IV, 138 p.
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- Ishara Research Series, 1
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- 400 HOY l
The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese.
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- 9789004287044
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- xix, 317 p. ; maps ; 24 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 73
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- 499.222 NOT t
Creating standards. Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures
Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts inte…
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- 9783110639063
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- 336 p.; 22 cm
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures; Volume 16
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- 492.7 CRE c
The Politics of written language in the Arab world
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabic vernacular. Readership: Readers interested in the Arabic language situation, language ideology, diglossia, and emerging writing practices
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- 9789004346178
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- 330 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; Volume: 90
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- 306.449 POL p
Carl Strehlow's 1909 comparative heritage dictionary : an Aranda, German, Lor…
Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his…
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- 9781760462062
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- XXI, 375 p.
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- 499.15 KEN c
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