Four Old Prussian etymologies

Intensifying Prefixes in the Etymologies

The Etymologies (as found in The Lost Road and in the “Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies” published in Vinyar Tengwar 45 and 46) include several examples of forms that are denoted as “intensified” by Tolkien, among them those that are formed by a prefix. The entry A‐ (VT45:5) is perhaps the best starting point for a classification of these intensified forms. We learn there of an intensi...

Pertussis in a four-week old baby.

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Latin Etymologies as Features on BNC Text Categorization

This paper presents an early experimental work on BNC Text Categorization (TC) with Latin etymologies as features, emphasis on spoken and written texts. Two aims achieved in this study: (1) to explore discriminative new linguistic features rather than lots of noise-bringing “bag-of-words” (BoW). (2) to build up a base step to represent texts in distinct types of linguistic features with differe...

Four Years Old in an Urban Community

Perception of moving, sounding objects by four-month-old infants.

Infants and adults were presented with two moving objects accompanied by a single percussive sound. In different experiments, the sound occurred when one object moved through a particular spatial position, when it abruptly changed its direction of movement, or when it made contact with a rigid surface. Infants responded to the sound-object relationship whenever the sound occurred as the object ...