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Review: Gender shifts in the history of English. Anne Curzan.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.pp. 223 + xii.
Herbert Schendl (2001:9) defines ‘the study of ongoing changes in a language’
as one of the fundamental goals of historical linguistics. Curzan’s book, which
examines the historical development of the English gender system, is a work
noteworthy not only for historical linguists, but also for experts of gender
and language precisely because it attains the aforementioned objective. The
book not only gives a well-argued description of the development of English
linguistic gender – a fact that makes it a pivotal addition to earlier theories of
the field (e.g. Corbett 1991) – but it also utilises its findings to contribute to the
research on contemporary gendered language
Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese
Takes a comparative, diachronic perspective on Chinese politeness and its evolution up to the present day, linking diachronic and synchronic approache
Learning language through pictures
We propose Imaginet, a model of learning visually grounded representations of
language from coupled textual and visual input. The model consists of two Gated
Recurrent Unit networks with shared word embeddings, and uses a multi-task
objective by receiving a textual description of a scene and trying to
concurrently predict its visual representation and the next word in the
sentence. Mimicking an important aspect of human language learning, it acquires
meaning representations for individual words from descriptions of visual
scenes. Moreover, it learns to effectively use sequential structure in semantic
interpretation of multi-word phrases.Comment: To appear at ACL 201
Stochastic model of hysteresis
The methods of the probability theory have been used in order to build up a
new model of hysteresis. It turns out that the reversal points of the control
parameter (e. g., the magnetic field) are Markov points which determine the
stochastic evolution of the process. It has been shown that the branches of the
hysteresis loop are converging to fixed limit curves when the number of cyclic
back-and-forth variations of the control parameter between two consecutive
reversal points is large enough. This convergence to limit curves gives a clear
explanation of the accommodation process. The accommodated minor loops show the
return-point memory property but this property is obviously absent in the case
of non-accommodated minor loops which are not congruent and generally not
closed. In contrast to the traditional Preisach model the reversal point
susceptibilities are non-zero finite values. The stochastic model can provide a
good approximation of the Raylaigh quadratic law when the external parameter
varies between two sufficiently small values.Comment: 13 pages, 14 figure
Funkcióváltás a szovjet katonai objektumok helyén. Barnamezős katonai területek újrahasznosítása hat magyar megyeszékhelyen.
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