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Graham Leonard, the Anglican bishop of London, explained his opposition by saying that if he encountered a woman in the sanctuary (the space where priests conduct sacred verbal rituals like the consecration of the bread and wine at Mass) he would be “unbearably tempted to embrace her”....
TheSlang and New Language Archivewas created in 1994 while I was Director ofthe Language CentreatKing’s College London. The archive, consisting of a small library of books and periodicals and a number of databases and sub-directories, was designed as a repository for the collection, storage a...
Rebecca Mead has aNew Yorkerpiece,The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London(archived), about Multicultural London English; we’ve talked about it before (2015,2019), but it’s constantly developing, and I continue to be interested in it: Not long after my family settled into a new h...
This way, the entire line of development becomes cumulative and modular. Each progressive period is characterized by the increase of cultural diversity in implementation of each central neoformation. Thus, the “physical aid” function relies on the presence of rhythmic idioms embedded in a metric ...
Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference
Growing up in London of the 60s and 70s (yes, I’m that old, really), I had a rich exposure to the pig latin of teenagers and the cockney rhyming slang of adults. Rhyming slang provided a gorgeously poetic and subversive way of conversing with like-minded souls and hiding meaning from...
London: Longman, Green and Co. Xiao, R., Rayson, P., & McEnery, T. (2009). A frequency dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core vocabulary for learners. London: Routledge. Google Scholar Zasorina, L. N. (Ed.). (1977). Chastotnyj slovarj russkogo jazyka [Frequency Dictionary of ...
Number of POS tags in different corpora Tagset Size Date Brown 77 1964 LOB 132 1980s London-Lund Corpus 197 1982 Penn 36 1992 The tagset in Figure 1-5 is taken from the Penn TreeBank, and is the basis for all subsequent annotation over that corpus. Figure 1-5. The Penn TreeBank ...
The British Council, London Google Scholar Mihaljević Djigunović J (2015) Individual differences among young EFL learners: age- or proficiency-related? A look from the affective learner factors perspective. In: Mihaljević Djigunović J, Medved Krajnović M (eds) Early learning and ...