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Indigenous composer Cris Derksen highlights R.I.’s history with ‘First Light’
Her work for cello, comissioned by Newport Classical and premiering this weekend, is inspired by the Wampanoag people.
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The Top 5 Longest Place Names You Need To Know
Derived from the Nipmuck language, it translates to “Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds.” It’s also ...
Can the New York Times Turn Its Writers Into Video Stars?
The New York Times critic and I are deep into a conversation about a long-simmering anxiety: that digital consumption is rapidly skewing toward increasingly video-centric platforms, potentially ...
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What’s the Word for When You Can’t Remember a Word?
The word is ‘soup.’ | (Silhouettes) Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images; (Soup) peanutpie/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images ...
These famous TV shows were made in Miami. Do you remember them?
The 1960s were a heady time for TV shows filmed in Miami. “Surfside 6.” “Flipper.” “Gentle Ben.” Studios in Miami also housed nationally known shows including “¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?” And even if you ...
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Deep Learning as tool to distinguish words for sharp and round objects in natural languages - IEEE Xplore
Sound Symbolism is a well studied psychological phenomena of the relation between sound and meaning in natural language. Though the phenomena has been studied by psychologists and linguists, the ...
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Pop, soda or coke? A linguist explains the history behind the various names for the drink
How did a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawn so many names and variations? An expert in American dialects explains.