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RUSSIA: ZHIRINOVSKY TARGETS ZYUGANOV AND YAVLINSKII, NOT PUTIN.(Brief Article)
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In campaign videos, monologues and debates, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky has again demonstrated his talent for using incendiary rhetoric. Notably, hardly any of it has been directed against acting President Vladimir Putin. Instead, Zhirinovsky has continued to assail his favorite targets, "communists" and "democrats". Zhirinovsky blames the Communists for a ruinous 70-year rule and charges that Gennadii Zyuganov does not even want to be in power, since his party gave up without a fight in 1991. As for Grigorii Yavlinskii, his proposed reforms ...
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The temporary merger of OE scitan and scyttan, or: a case of harmless homophony.
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
; ...Lass (1980: 76) remarks that such homophony would be "as 'pernicious' as any...being the avoidance of a case of harmful homophony (cf. Lass 1980: 75, 79). And true...Samuels (1972: 143) gives undesirable homophony with a "taboo" word as the cause for...
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Ambiguity and language evolution: evolution of homophones and syllable number of words *.(LINGUISTICS)(Table)(Report)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
; ...To meet semantic need, polysemy and homophony, which are major sources of ambiguity...like to investigate the evolution of homophony and its relation to the evolution of...184) states that all languages have homophony to different degrees, and one can never...
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The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...possibility that rebus writing was only realized through the exploitation of homophony, one or two centuries after writing came into use. The first known example of homophony in Mesopotamia goes back to the times of Uruk III, around 3000 B.C...
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Why do languages lose grammatical categories? Latin and romance evidence.(Report)
Magazine article from: Romance Quarterly
; ...amavit / amabit all become amavi" (48), Vincent ignores half the paradigm and implies that homophony of this type is fatal. When such homophony does develop, it is often 'tolerated' indefinitely. Syncretism is widespread not only in the...
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Learning Arabic
Magazine article from: Strings
; ...music ensembles. Darling explains that five elements set Arabic music apart: homophony, melodic mode (scale), embellishment, rhythm, and improvisation. Homophony means that everybody-and in a traditional Arabic ensemble, that usually...
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'Brought to speake English with the rest': Byrd's motet contrafacta
Magazine article from: Musical Times
; ...with a good deal of counterpoint broken up by periodic use of homophony. He never wrote austere little four-part pieces, as many...an almost unbroken succession of opening gambits based on homophony, stepwise motion, minor thirds, and of course the ubiquitous...
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Homophone Effects in Visual Word Recognition Depend on Homophone Type and Task Demands
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
; ...These results suggest that in these tasks the effects of homophony arise when the homophone's mate creates competition in terms...more light on these interactions by evaluating the effects of homophony in different tasks. Many studies have used homophones to...
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The influence of phonological neighborhood on visual word perception
Magazine article from: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
; ...of consistency. In addition, Pexman, Lupker, and Jared (2001) showed that homophony slows lexical decisions, and Van Orden (1987) demonstrated that homophony increases false positives in a semantic categorization task. To further test...
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Despair as oppositional practice: writing the minority within Quebec's English minority.
Magazine article from: Quebec Studies
; ...writing, recognizable because it employs one of a handful of historically canonized techniques (collage, chance operations, homophony, and other playfully self-imposed formal constraints), is invisible. But I am generalizing. Bush-hogging the terrain...
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Music, philososphy, and generation Y
Magazine article from: Human Events
; ...distracts from logos. The Hebrew prophets took the same view, which is why early Christians spurned the rich instrumental homophony of pagan music in favor of a spare vocal monophony, a single melodic line sung without accompaniment. But during the late...
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