Vocabulário erótico-obsceno dos orgãos sexuais masculino e feminino em português e italiano

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Estilo S.M: a poética do obsceno em A hora da estrela

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Critical behavior in a cross-situational lexicon learning scenario

The associationist account for early word learning is based on the co-occurrence between referents and words. Here we introduce a noisy cross-situational learning scenario in which the referent of the uttered word is eliminated from the context with probability gamma, thus modeling the noise produced by out-of-context words. We examine the performance of a simple associative learning algorithm and find a critical value of the noise parameter gamma(c) above which learning is impossible. We use finite-size scaling to show that the sharpness of the transition persists across a region of order tau(-1/2) about gamma(c), where tau is the number of learning trials, as well as to obtain the learning error (scaling function) in the critical region. In addition, we show that the distribution of durations of periods when the learning error is zero is a power law with exponent -3/2 at the critical point. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2012

Apatani phonology and lexicon, with a special focus on tone

Despite being one of the most extensively researched of Eastern Himalayan languages, the basic morphological and phonological-prosodic properties of Apatani (Tibeto-Burman > Tani > Western) have not yet been adequately described. This article attempts such a description, focusing especially on interactions between segmental-syllabic phonology and tone in Apatani. We highlight three features in particular – vowel length, nasality and a glottal stop – which contribute to contrastively-weighted syllables in Apatani, which are consistently under-represented in previous descriptions of Apatani, and in absence of which tone in Apatani cannot be effectively analysed. We conclude that Apatani has two “underlying”, lexically-specified tone categories H and L, whose interaction with word structure and syllable weight produce a maximum of three “surface” pitch contours – level, falling and rising – on disyllabic phonological words. Two appendices provide a set of diagnostic procedures for the discovery and description of Apatani tone categories, as well as an Apatani lexicon of approximately one thousand entries.

Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten jüdischen Literatur der Gegenwart und Adress-Anzeiger : ein lexicalisch geordnetes Schema mit Adressen ...

Ch. D. Lippe

Johannis Buxtorfi[i] Lexicon Hebraicum & Chaldaicum : Complectens Omnes Voces, Tam Primas, Quam Derivatas, quae in Sacris Bibliis ... extant

Text teilw. in hebr., teilw. in lat. Schrift

Etymologische Studien zum Semitischen, insbesondere zum Hebräischen Lexicon

Jacob Barth