Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ : manuscript, 1682

Written in one column, from 6 to 23 lines per page, in black and red.

Sharḥ abyāt al-Muṭawwal : manuscript, 1703

Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black and red.

Kitāb Sharḥ al-istiʻārāt / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Mallawī : manuscript, 1850

Author's own abridgement of his longer work "ʻIqd al-durar al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah".

Dhikr maʻrifat aḥzāb al-Qurʼān wa-anṣāfihi wa-arbāʻih : manuscript, undated

Title from caption (fol. 1v).

Taʻlīq laṭīf ʻalá al-Rāmizah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah : manuscript, 1640 or 1641

Copied in 1050 AH? [1640 or 41 AD?].

al- Khazrajīyah : manuscript, 1640

Copied in 1050 AH? [1640 or 1641 AD?]

al- Sāmī fī al-asāmī : manuscript, 1251

Written in one column, from 19 (ff. 1r-92v) to 21 (ff. 93r-114v) lines per page, in black now faded and red.

Kitāb Muqaddimat al-adab

li-Abī al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī.

"Sounds Funny? – Humor Effects of Phonological and Prosodic Figures of Speech"

Whereas semantic, logical, and narrative features of verbal humor are well-researched, phonological and prosodic dimensions of verbal funniness are hardly explored. In a 2 × 2 design we varied rhyme and meter in humorous couplets. Rhyme and meter enhanced funniness ratings and supported faster processing. Rhyming couplets also elicited more intense and more positive affective responses, increased subjective comprehensibility and more accurate memory. The humor effect is attributed to special rhyme and meter features distinctive of humoristic poetry in several languages. Verses that employ these formal features make an artful use of typical poetic vices of amateurish poems written for birthday parties or other occasions. Their metrical patterning sounds “mechanical” rather than genuinely “poetic”; they also disregard rules for “good” rhymes. The processing of such verses is discussed in terms of a metacognitive integration of their poetically deviant features into an overall effect of processing ease. The study highlights the importance of nonsemantic rhetorical features in language processing.

An Hebrew grammar, collected chiefly from those of Mr. Israel Lyons, teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge; and the Rev. Richard Grey, D.D. rector of Hinton, in Northamptonshire: To which is subjoined a praxis, taken from the sacred classics, and containing a specimen of the whole Hebrew language: with a sketch of the Hebrew poetry

as retrieved by Bishop Hare ...

A working handbook of the analysis of sentences with notes on parsing, paraphrasing, figures of speech, and prosody.

Mode of access: Internet.

S.O.S., slips of speech and how to avoid them, with an introduction from John Ruskin's "Sesame and lilies";

Mode of access: Internet.

A new stylometric technique for the invesigation of the true authorship of the early works of Shakespeare

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Meaningful use of speech scale: application to orally educated hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to determine whether the use of meaningful speech in everyday situations is independent of a cochlear implant.