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...Let’s Make Experiments in Linguistics (General preface) - 6 1. FLORENTIN’S LAWS If anything can go wrong, pass it on to someone else! - 8 1.1. ADVENTURES and VARIATIONs IN MURPHY’s LAW (Preface) - 9 1.2. What and Why Florentin’s law - 11 1.3. Flo...

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...zzy Linguistic Spaces 9 Chapter Three Fuzzy Linguistic Set Vector Spaces 23 Chapter Four Fuzzy Linguistic Models 129 4.1 Operations on Fuzzy Linguistics Matrices 129 4.2 Fuzzy Linguistic Cognitive Models 139 4.3 Fuzzy Linguistic Relational Map Model 148 Chapter Five Suggested Problems 165 Further Reading 187 Index 189 About the Authors 192...

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...al fieldwork or any other work that will take them to the South Seas where mastery of closely related languages is so essential. Students majoring in linguistics want to probe deeper into the structure of the Hawaiian language. Some students wish to speak Hawaiian to grandparents and other native speakers still found on Niihau and in scattered communities on other islands ...

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... it is hoped that this volume will be of value to all students and teachers of the Hawaiian language, whether or not they are trained in contemporary linguistics. The approach is data-oriented and structural, and most attention is devoted to the sound system and to the structure of words and phrases, with less concentration on complex sentences. Nevertheless, an attempt ...

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...anning the past 1,000 years of world history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. ...

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...ning the past 1,000 years of world history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile....

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...tory of traditional knowledge passed down through generations, the College seeks to develop an academic curriculum emphasizing language acquisition, linguistics, traditional culture and education programs which are culturally responsive to the needs of the Hawaiian medium learning environment, and support a network of community outreach programs that benefit all those i...

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...s an American humorist who traveled extensively throughout Europe and the US. Leland worked in journalism, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. He worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, fought in two...

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...and would have just been a useless “organ,” if it could not have linked up to pre-existing thought systems.” —NOAM CHOMSKY, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, MIT “Boston University’s Andrey Vyshedskiy brings a neuroscientist’s perspective to the discussion of human mental history in On the Origin of the Human Mind.” —Scientific American Mind (July 2009) “I fo...