... recursion a ‘core property’ of language. in evolution littera vocalis Acoustic phonetics thoughts syntax This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...This chapter surveys the origins of the Humanistic script in Italy during the late-fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, discussing how the Italian humanists consciously employed an older medieval script, the littera antiqua or Caroline minuscule, when copying manuscripts...

...This chapter focuses on the investigation of the content of the two Perugia texts, which were produced in a relatively short period of time. It explains that the Littera is the first text of Perugia and that it is a fairly short declaration of dogmatic truth. It adds...

...The sporadic Latin ‘littera-rule’ changed long vowel + singleton consonant (VːC) into short vowel + geminate consonant (VCC). This rule can be distilled into three phonetically guided processes if it is acknowledged that closed-syllable vowels in Latin were phonetically longer than...

... representation, captured lexical diffusion in process, and did not use notions like phoneme and grapheme. Many of them were working in a way best characterized in terms of the Classical theory of littera. The paper deals with the typology of ‘economical’ and ‘prodigal’ systems, the nature...

..., especially in Paris. Gothic script Paris Paris Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal Paris Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève schools and universities urbanization and technology effect on spread of scripts Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France praegothica compression Zamponi’s rule littera bononiensis littera...

... “littera antiqua”, in particular Niccolò Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini, are discussed, as is the development of a new style of decorated initial, the white vine stem capitals, and new majuscule alphabets, to accompany the new text script. The author also treats major patrons, the contributions of Guarino...

... strange. At least two types of explanation are possible for this state of affairs: one consists in invoking the accidental juxtaposition of historical persons and events, the other in invoking substantive issues and research programmes. post hoc Grammatical Treatise littera Cours phoneme This content...