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TITLE:   SOUND, STRUCTURE AND MEANING: THE BASES OF PROMINENCE RATING IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH DATE OF READING:  30  OCTOBER 2020 Authors:  Jennifer Cole, José I.Hualde, Caroline L.Smith, Christopher Eager, Timothy Mahrt, Ricardo Napoleão de Souza Published:  July 2019 Name of the Academic Journal:  SciencDirect, "Journal of Phonetics" Volume 75, Pages 113-147 Source:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009544701830024X Summary:  The article focuses on the study of the influence of acoustic and non-acoustic prominences on the perception of meaning by listeners in three languages - English, French and Spanish.  The three languages have a common aspect -  the F0 acoustic signal, of which they want to pay close attention to both amplitude and velocity. An auditory evaluation task was performed by native speakers of each language to mark distinctive terms in conversational speech samples under two guidelines: with distinctions identified in acoustic or meani

TITLE:   POINTING AT WORDS: GESTURES, LANGUAGE AND PEDAGOGY IN ELEMENTARY LITERACY CLASSROOMS IN CHINA DATE OF READING: 23  OCTOBER 2020 Author:  Wendy L. Bowcher & Zhenzhen Zhang Published:  February 2020 Name of the Academic Journal:  SciencDirect, "Linguistics and Education" Volume 55 100779 Source:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589819301676 Summary:  This article introduces an overview and description of the movements used by teachers in China's elementary literacy classrooms. Fundamental questions for this article are: what kinds of gestures are used and what are they used for, and how are gestures transmitted in the process of teaching Chinese characters to be read and written by children? McNeill takes a psycholinguistic perspective, which usually focuses on how people process communicative tools and understand them. The conducted survey confirmed the belief that the use of iconic movements by teachers shows a significantly higher perc

Title: THE TALMUDIC TRADITION IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH-JEWISH FICTION: SILENCE VERSUS TALKING  Date of reading:  18 OCTOBER 2020 Author: Anita Chmielewska Published: 6th August 2018 Title of the Academic Journal: Crossroads Number:  DOI: 10.15290 / CR.2018.23.4.02 Summary: The main problem contained in the article is to show that the contemporary British-Jewish literature is turning away from silence which is understood as a means of preventing problems in the civilisation. The Holy Text of Judaism, Talmud, is the decisive factor in preventing the misunderstanding of the other side caused by the silence. Thanks to the long-established tradition Havruta - that involves understanding and solving problems through dialogue between people - such an approach is visible in British-Jewish literature. We can notice these in the mentioned titles such as "The Marrying of Chani Kaufman" by Eve Harris and "The Innocents" by Francesca Segal. Both of them open with a scene in a sy