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5 days ago · Abstract. Aristotle defined language as an activity that links sound and meaning, and requires therefore the coordination of two distinct systems: a phonetic system that receives and produces sounds (the sensory-motor component of language) and a cognitive system that gives meaning to sounds (the semantic component of language).
2 days ago · Ayn Rand. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; [c] February 2 [ O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( / aɪn / INE ), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. [3] She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.
- Writer
- Leningrad State University
- 1934–1982
7 hours ago · The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [1] and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture. With each historical invention of writing, true writing systems were preceded by ...
2 days ago · By the beginning of the 1st millennium CE, there were several languages in the Iberian Peninsula. The one spoken in the region we now know as Northern and Central Portugal later originated the Portuguese spoken by the natives today. In reality, there was no clear point of separation between Galician and Portuguese.
May 4, 2024 · Language is often connected to our identity. Along with travelling to different places, identity is another thing that can lead to language change or different languages. For instance, in one village in Papua New Guinea (a country just north of Australia), everyone spoke the same language, Selepet, as people in nearby villages.
4 days ago · Irish language: Row erupts over Belfast street signs. Irish language, a member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, spoken in Ireland. As one of the national languages of the Republic of Ireland, Irish is taught in the public schools and is required for certain civil-service posts.
4 days ago · Ukrainian language, East Slavic language spoken in Ukraine and in Ukrainian communities in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovakia and by smaller numbers elsewhere. Ukrainian is a lineal descendant of the colloquial language used in Kievan Rus (10th–13th century).
