Diminutive Forming Suffixes in Instructional German Books

New Books in German Media and Communication Studies

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Languag...

Prefixal 'suffixes' in Skou

Books, books, books.

IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...

The Dutch diminutive

In this paper a new analysis is presented of the allomorphy of the Dutch diminutive suffix. There is one long allomorph (-etje) and four short allomorphs (-tje, -pje, -kje and -je). With respect to the choice between the long and short versions, this article compares two types of analyses, which appeal to the structural organisation of the stem (rather than to the segmental properties of the st...

Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms

In today’s primary classrooms, the definition of “text” has expanded to include multiple modes of representation, with combined elements of print, visual images, and design. Emergent research on literacy highlights the imaginative, interpretive, nonlinear, interactive, dynamic, visual, and mobile features of communication (Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008). Although these interactive featu...