The verb inflections of Bengali underwent a series of phonological change between 10th and 18th centuries, which gave rise to several modern dialects of the language. In this paper, we offer a functional explanation for this change by quantifying the functional pressures of ease of articulation, perceptual contrast and learnability through objective functions or constraints, or both. The multi-...

Biblissima is an online digital library, which provides easy and coordinated access to a huge and complex mass of documentation on manuscripts and early printed books, the texts contained therein, their circulation and their readers, from the 8th to 18th centuries. This workshop presentation will give an overview of the steps followed and decisions made along the way to releasing a first protot...

The article focuses on the use Voluntary and Lesson as terms in English musical practice 17th 18th centuries. Based unique example of interpretation these synonyms edition Carl Trinks’s organ pieces 1810 (this fact is remained unnoticed musicology), author compares Lesson, noting, first all, significant differences specific names compositions also paying attention to reflection this general lex...