While some poems in the collection may leave the reader pondering their deeper meanings, others offer moments of sheer delight and humor. Lang's wit shines through in his clever wordplay and unexpected twists, adding a touch of lightness to the overall tone. This balance between thought-provoking...
Mary Evelyn, whose 1690 Mundus Muliebris (“Women’s world”) included a “fop-dictionary” devoted to the vocabulary of fashion and cosmetics); some were not unlike the fictional Women’s Words and Their Meanings, in that they focused on “English as it was spoken among and with women” ...
I even started to read the Old Testament as Mike hounded me every day about my name and more meanings. I told him about the namesake of the complex where we lived. He was intrigued about the story of Abraham and his son. “I could never kill my son.” “It’s just a metaphor,”...
Moreover, for most basins, the leading two EOF modes have clear physical meanings, such as ENSO, Indian Ocean Basin Mode, and Atlantic Niño mode. In terms of terrestrial forcings, the Sahel, WAM region, and HOA represent unique North African landscapes, i.e. mainly savanna and grasslands...
Some studies view national and local reform in the context of structural and behavioural logics that legitimise social meanings required for reform and improvement (Lazer et al. 2011; Waldorff 2013; Kooijman et al. 2017), with scholars analysing speeds and directions of radical innovation. ...
Within LLMs, transformers use cartographies of word meanings known as “embeddings,” and apply “attention” to identify which words in the natural language input sequence (the user’s prompt, or the previous parts of the text) are most relevant to predicting the next word. This ability to ...
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Different from harmonic stimulation, natural speech signals not only have linguistic meanings (i.e. determining lexical tone), but also have more abundant acoustic features, such as the syllable rate, complex formant structure, more variable speed and direction by which the F0 contour changed. It ...
and TRANSITITY and the delicate meanings (or features) that realise them (e.g. declarative and imperative for MOOD). Structure is then analysed as a realisation of a particular feature or a cluster of features, that is, its ‘reflex in form’. For example, in analysing the English clause...
La Niña, respectively. ENSO is known to show a significant diversity and irregularity4,5. The theoretical explanations of these are always grouped into two categories5,6,7. In the first category, ENSO is viewed as a self-sustained, unstable and naturally oscillatory mode of the coupled ...