In The Descent of Man, Darwin speculated that our capacity for musical rhythm reflects basic aspects of brain function broadly shared among animals. Although this remains an appealing idea, it is being challenged by modern cross-species research. This research hints that our capacity to synchronize to a beat, i.e., to move in time with a perceived pulse in a manner that is predictive and flexib...

Title of Document: MEMORABLE MOMENTS: A PHILOSOPHY OF POETRY Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro, Ph.D., 2006 Directed By: Professor Jerrold Levinson Department of Philosophy In my dissertation I give a philosophical account of poetry from an analytic perspective—one that is also informed by studies in linguistic communication (pragmatics) and cognitive psychology, and that takes into account the many v...

muhammad al-maqut is considered as one of the most important pioneers of blank verse in arab world. his literary works include different forms such as novel, drama, blank verse, movie script and diary. simplicity, pragmatism and sadness are characteristics of his works. this article attempts to study the language used by al-maqut in “badvi al-ahmar”. the simplicity of the terminology applied by...

there are imaginative poets who have a look to nature and get astonished for their beauty and as if are observed for the first time.there are also some poets which are deeply inspired and get deeper insight by important factors of nature like color, sound and dynamism.dynamism is superior to the others. when poetic images are free of dynamism, they are deprived of beauty thus they are no more e...

In his article "Davis's Poetic Dialogue with Leiris's Autobiography" Jonathan Evans analyzes Lydia Davis's translation of the first two parts of Michel Leiris's autobiography, which shows an encounter between two writers. Davis has also written stories which reference Leiris and thus position him as a precursor. Evans proposes that Leiris is not only a source of influence for Davis, but that th...

In this paper a new approach towards the analysis of speech rhythm is presented. In the speech rhythm literature it was often discussed that rhythmic phenomena are more transparent in the metrical structure of orally produced poetry. However, up to now only a few phoneticians have worked on this special speaking style. For analyzing the rhythmic and prosodic patterns of this kind of speech, a c...

Vertebrate and most invertebrate organisms interact with their environment through processes of adaptation and learning. Such processes are generally controlled by complex networks of nerve cells, or neurons, and their interactions. Neurons are characterized by all-or-none discharges—the spikes— and the time series corresponding to the sequences of the discharges—the spike trains — carry most o...