One of the peculiarities of the Chinese language is that it has a very large number of written characters but a much smaller number of spoken sounds. As a result, many Chinese characters share the same pronunciation, i.e. are homonyms. The charms of the Ming (1368 - 1644 AD) and Qing...
It has a chance to reveal, criticize, and satirize the national politics and social attitudes of the time. Watching and discussing politics reflected in a number of American films from the 60’s and one from the early 70’s, opened up a window for me to observe tones and attitudes of ...
The situation has changed dramatically in 2016 with a publication of a cluster of papers that have increased the number of known nuclear genetic code variants by a factor of two. Firstly, two independent studies [14,15] demonstrated that the yeastPachysolen tannophilususes CUG to encode alanine...
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By using quantitative measures for both sound and meaning of words, we extended the results of previous findings to a larger number of “ordinary” words in the lexicon and in the context of affective meaning. Also, the important role of multimodal convergence of emotions in making appropriate ...
This limitation has prevented previous research on real spoken words to move beyond onomatopoeia and ideophones, leaving open the question of whether iconicity could be considered a "general" mechanism facilitating language processing. In addition, due to the limited number and the specific properties ...