"This book is written for all those who, in the daily practice of medicine are faced with the limitations of their memory and the finiteness of their minds." So the authors begin the preface to this entertaining book which offers hope to all of us who can never remember the major causes of hematuria. All we need do is bring to mind the authors' vivid mnemonic, "H-E'S G-O-T S-I-C-K P-L-U-M-B-I-N...

In many of my writings I have argued that poetic images have no fixed predetermined meanings. In my 1992 book What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?—The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception (originally published in 1987) I propounded the view that speech sounds do not have fixed predetermined symbolic values either.1 Poetic images as well as speech sounds are clusters of features, each of which may ...

This research is aimed at investigating the method of use of kinetic typography in order to appreciate a work in the art museum built by the Internet. Kinetic typography is the animation of the character expressed by computer. With being accompanied by various motions, kinetic typography can add messages, such as feeling and directions, to the meaning which language involves. The Internet art m...

somewhat tempted to put in a word for the swine. Of course, William Pickles's classic on Epidemiology in country practice is readily available in medical libraries; but I suspect that Lord Moynihan's Truants is not, and Ruth Holland's collection of Richard Asher's writings is certainly not thus available. I hope that after a decent interval, A sense of Asher will be reprinted, possibly even as ...

Существующие сегодня исследования приемов и стратегии креолизации текста доказывают интерес ученых к семиотически сложным объектам, соединяющим принципы вербального визуального кодирования информации. Однако креолизованная прозаическая миниатюра для детей – малоизученный феномен, хотя он занимает значимое место в истории детской литературы современном литературном процессе. Цель проанализироват...

It is often considered that English is Trochaic at the foot level (and this may explain the tendency to leftward-ho! stress shift at the word level), but that at the higher levels a syntactically based Iambic broad-focus pattern dominates. The presence of Trochaic patterns at the higher level has then either to be explained by information structured stress shifts(de-accentuation of back-ground ...

Human language exhibits mainly arbitrary relationships between the forms and meanings of words. Why would this be so? In this paper I argue that arbitrariness becomes necessary as the number of words increases. I also discuss the effectiveness of competitive learning for acquiring lexicons that are arbitrary in this sense. Finally, I consider some implications of this perspective for arbitrarin...

We compare the performance of several automatic classification systems across a collection of different feature sets in detecting the gender of Japanese authors. The Japanese language is notable for the distinctiveness of the different manners and modes of speech used by the two genders--speakers of one gender often use different verb forms, sentence-final particles, and even personal pronouns ...

Main professional sound effects (SFX) providers offer their collections using standard text-retrieval technologies. SFX cataloging is an error-prone and labor consuming task. The vagueness of the query specification, normally one or two words, together with the ambiguity and informality of natural languages affects the quality of the search: Some relevant sounds are not retrieved and some irrel...

K E Y W O R D S : aesthetic awe, being moved, expression, music and emotion, recall of life-events Music, as a temporal array of auditory stimuli, clearly possesses the means to mimic the patter of feet of children at play, the sound of water bouncing off rocks in a mountain brook, and the slow motion of a profoundly sad person or a funeral procession (cf. Avison, 2003[1752]: 4; Gurney, 1966[18...