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The small world of human language

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Words in human language interact in sentences in non-random ways, and allow humans to construct an astronomic variety of sentences from a limited number of discrete units. This construction process is extremely fast and robust. The co-occurrence of words

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Mathematics, language and translation

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The mathematical discourse is not possible without a fertile use of natural language. Its texts are a combination symbols, natural language, diagrams and so on. To coherently read these texts is to be involved in the activity of translation. Applied mathe

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On accent, stress and quantity in West Slavic

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Among the Indo-European languages with mobile stress, the Slavic languages are distinguished by possessing, in addition to accented and unaccented morphemes, a class of post-accenting morphemes, whose cognates in the other IE languages are accented. The p

The Pollyanna Principle in French: A study of variable lexis
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The Pollyanna Principle in French: A study of variable lexis

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This article investigates the different rates at which young speakers of French appear to innovate in the use of adjectives of approval and disapproval. The principal research issues examined here are twofold: (i) the validity of the 'Pollyanna Principle

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Episodic memory for musical prosody

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Prosodic cues are often informative in speech perception; similar acoustic features distinguish music performances. Three experiments addressed the role of prosodic cues in memory for music. In Experiment 1. musically trained and untrained listeners were

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Material culture and intercultural communication

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Artifacts, i.e., the material side of culture, and their relevance: for intercultural interactions rarely caught the attention of interculturalists. This may be partly due to the scholarly traditions of the involved disciplines (except for cultural anthro