For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

Введение. Онимная лексика в разряде немецких псевдозаимствований представляется настоящее время малоизученной. Если псевдозаимствования традиционно рассматриваются этимологическом и словообразовательном аспекте, то практике анализа онимного разряда его этимологических сегментов большую роль играет выделение ономастических субклассов псевдозаимствованных онимов, констелляция которых определяется...

We apply entropy agglomeration (EA), a recently introduced algorithm, to cluster the words of a literary text. EA is a greedy agglomerative procedure that minimizes projection entropy (PE), a function that can quantify the segmentedness of an element set. To apply it, the text is reduced to a feature allocation, a combinatorial object to represent the word occurences in the text’s paragraphs. T...

The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word prediction, derived from information theory, during story comprehension. We assessed the effect of entropy of next-word probability distributions as well as surprisal A computational model determined entropy and surprisal for each word in 3 lite...

Quantitative analysis of literary style has heretofore utilized semantic elements-word counts. This research attempts to identify quantifiable syntactic elements of style that can be used for author identification. The measurement of syntactic elements utilizes a dictionary with one part of speech per word and looks at phrases delimited by punctuation marks. Different size permutations of words...