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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"hapax legomena"”.
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A study of compound hapax legomena in Old English poetry
… many or most of these unique words are true hapax legomena, that is, words created in response to a rhetorical need. This study will assume the likelihood of such being the case, and will try to support such a hypothesis by showing how frequently the unique words serve a significant …
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Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity
This doctoral thesis examines the phenomena of hapax legomena, words which are used only once in a given text or corpus, in Dante’s *Commedia*. Hapax in Dante’s work have previously been interpreted mostly in terms of the poet’s contribution to the Italian language. Hapax are defined in these works …
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Martial's Apophoreta : an introduction and commentary
… a three-part appendix devoted to rare usages and hapax legomena, illustrations, and textual concordances
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Estimation problems in speech and natural language
… types) and the number of words spoken once ({\em hapax legomena}). With the goal of objective fluency assessment without the use of automatic speech recognition, we show the utility of measures of temporal aspects of speech production that were obtained from direct signal-level measurements. Their …