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This book presents children with the opportunity to go beyond simply learning to count from zero to ten. It encourages very young children (and older ones as well) to create their own meanings and make their own connections between the text and the art.

This article utilizes line counting-in the sense both of noting a line's number within a tablet and of delineating sections of text thematically and hypothesizing as to the significance of and symmetries between their lengths-to shed light on the structure and meaning of the Babylonian poem Erra and Išum. It puts forward three arguments: First, line counting indicates conspicuous roles in the text for the numbers five and fifty; second, line counting reveals symmetrical structures in Erra; and third, line counting indicates the construction of Erra's first tablet to be in line with prior insights regarding the importance of halfway points in Akkadian poetry, indicating that it has structural similarities to other great Akkadian epics.

A children's poem describes ten things a mother loves about her little \"monster,\" while they participate in a bit of imaginative play before bedtime.

Introduction and Objectives: Vision plays an important role in theories of cognitive development and language acquisition. Studies on acquired blindness have shown a negative impact on the outcome of semantic and phonological fluency tasks in those who suffer from it. The Objectives of our work was to evaluate the potential effect of visual deficit on the lexical richness (quantity of different words or lexical units) of the work of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (JLB). Material and Methods: Verses and prose texts by JLB (complete works of stories and poetry) were analyzed. The total number of words used was counted, and within them, the number of unique words (numbered words without counting their repetitions) was quantified using the Unique Word calculator tool from Planet Calc®. The results obtained after the period in which his blindness prevented him from reading texts were compared with the data obtained from his previous literary production. Statistical results were obtained using SPSS software. Means, standard deviations, and the result of a t-test were calculated. Results: Data from 3 books of stories and 3 poetry books written between the years 1923 and 1949 (a period in which he still retained his reading ability) were collected, as well as data from 3 books of stories and 10 poetry books from his post-blindness period (starting from 1955). A total of 93446 and 59749 total words were obtained from the pre and post-blindness periods, respectively, with a total of 39887 and 24610 unique words from the mentioned periods. A percentage of unique words over total words was calculated for both periods, and a T-test for related measures was conducted. Although a lower percentage was observed in both the narratives between the pre-blindness stage (M = 45.09%; SD = 6.8%) and post-blindness stage (M = 40.92%; SD = 4.7%), as well as in the poems pre-blindness stage (40.92% SD 4%) and post-blindness stage (32.57% SD 4.5%), this difference was not statisticallysignificant(narrativesp = 0.155;poems p = 0.106). Conclusions: The analysis of the comparison between pre-and post-blindness stages of lexical richness in JLB’s writing does not align with the fluency deficit reported in the literature. The continuity of his active intellectual life may have influenced his lexical performance through compensatory mechanisms.

In this collection of haiku, a young girl walks through a Japanese garden and discovers many delights, from one leaf to ten stone lanterns. Includes notes about Japanese religion and philosophy.

To determine if there is an association between vocal gender presentation and the gender and context of the listener. Quantitative and transversal study. 47 speakers of Brazilian Portuguese of different genders were recorded. Recordings included sustained vowel emission, connected speech, and the expressive recital of a poem. Subsequently, four scripts were used in Praat to extract 16 acoustic measurements related to prosody. Voices underwent Auditory-Perceptual Assessment (APA) of the gender presentation by 236 people [65 speech and language pathologist (SLP) with experience in the area of the voice (SLP), 101 cisgender people (CG), and 70 transgender and non-binary people (TNB)]. Gender presentation was evaluated by visual analogue scale. Agreement analyses were executed among quantitative variables and multiple linear regression models were generated to predict APA, taking the judge context/gender and speaker gender into consideration. Acoustic analysis revealed that cis and transgender women had higher median fundamental frequency (fo) values than other genders. Cisgender women exhibited greater breathiness, while cisgender men showed more vocal quality deviations. In terms of APA, significant differences were observed among judge groups: SLP judged vowel samples differently from other groups, and TNB judged speech samples differently (both p<0.001). The predictive measures for the APA varied based on the sample type, speaker gender, and judge group. For vowel samples, only SLP judges had predictive measures (fo and ABI Jitter) for cisgender speakers. In number counting samples, predictive measures for cisgender speakers included fomed and HNR for CG judges, and fomed for both SLP and TNB judges. For transgender and non-binary speakers, predictive measures were fomed for CG and SLP judges, and fomed, CPPs, and ABI for TNB judges. In the poem recital task, predictive measures for cisgender speakers were fomed and HNR for both SLP and CG judges, with additional measures of cvint and sr for CG judges, and fomed, HNR, cvint, and fopeakwidth for TNB judges. For transgender and non-binary speakers, the predictive measures included a wider range of acoustic features such as fomed, fosd, sr, fomin, emph, HNR, Shimmer, and fo peakwidth for SLP judges, and fomed, fosd, sr, fomax, emph, HNR, and Shimmer for CG judges, while TNB judges considered fomed, sr, emph, fosd, Shimmer, HNR, Jitter, and fomax. There is an association between the perception of gender presentation in the voice and the gender or context of the listener and the speaker. Transgender and non-binary judges diverged to a higher degree from cisgender and SLP judges. Compared to the evaluation of cisgender speakers, all judge groups used a greater number of acoustic measurements when analyzing the speech of transgender and non-binary individuals in the poem recital samples.

Within the advance of generative metrical theory that is concerned with the linguistic study of versification, poetry investigation has been undeniably played a significant role in enhancing such progress. The research of linguistic scholars has been mainly focused on the exploration of English poetry with minor concentration on the examination of poetry in other languages, and that clearly implies the need of such research. Thus, the present study aims to examine the meter in Soqotri poetry under the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). It reveals that Soqotri poetry is regulated by poetic meter that constrains the size of the line with a fixed number of syllables with no systematic rhythm or alliteration. The OT analysis offered in this study derives the restrictions on the size of the line with minimality and maximality constraints. It shows the capability of OT in generating the well-formedness of non-rhythmic meter that constrains the phonological constituency in Soqotri poetry.

I was already working on a book about counting before I got the invitation to give the Madison Lecture, so the namesake could not have been better. After all, James Madison was the nation's first quantitative political scientist. Nothing could be more important to democracy than figuring out what interests are and how best to represent them. So today I want to talk about this mental leap from ideas about social reality to measures of social reality, and back again to ideas. I will argue that statistics aren't born with honest meanings that people later corrupt with deceptive packaging. Numbers are figments of our imagination, fictions really, no more true than poems or drawings. In this sense, all statistics are lies.

This article addresses meter in the Hurrian parables from Boğazköy (KBo 32.14). Bachvarova (2011) has characterized this text as having four stressed syllables per line; others have suggested that the pattern of unstressed syllables may also contribute to the meter (e.g., Haas and Wegner 2007, Neu 1988), although the widely variable line lengths pose a problem for an isosyllabic meter. I offer evidence for a meter consisting of four stressed syllables per line, with one to three unstressed syllables between stressed syllables. I further reconcile a syllable-counting meter with the observed variability in line length by positing that lines are in groups of two to three, forming semantic units. Within these groups, the average difference in syllable count between lines is significantly lower than it is between non-grouped lines. The similarity within groups of lines suggests that, despite apparent differences based on the orthography, lines within groups may have matched exactly in number of syllables. Postulating this exact match, I offer three phonetic interpretations of the orthography that build on phonological characteristics discussed by Wilhelm (2008) and Wegner (2007): 1) an underlying glottal stop producing disyllabicity of sequences and potentially other plene vowel sequences as well; 2) elision at word boundaries where the first word ended with a vowel and the following word began with a vowel; 3) a monosyllabic realization of a word-internal sequence of a high vowel followed by another vowel. Such a syllable-counting meter provides a new line of evidence for the phonology of Hurrian as well as contributing to the metrical characteristics that can be found in poetry of the ancient Near East.

\"4 The attention that Bissert brought to the grant process resulted in a special meeting of the cclm board to \"discuss the controversy\" and the awards.5 The next year, the cclm editor fellowships went to five journals run by women and five run by men; one of the winners of the $5,000 award in 1980 was the editorial collective of Conditions, a magazine of writing by women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians.6 In a letter to readers of Conditions, the three editors, Elly Bulkin, Jan Clausen, and Rima Shore, noted that the \"feminist protest following the announcement of the 1979 awards no doubt had an impact on the decision-making process\" and that the award \"represents the only substantial payment we have received, or seem likely to receive, for our editorial work, and we were greatly encouraged by it. In 1967, the nea formally began a grant program for individual writers; in 1968, the nea appointed Carolyn Kizer as its first Literature Director to oversee the program. Since 1968, there have been ten nea Literature Directors; two were women.10 Throughout the forty-five-year program, grant-making evolved based on both budgetary constraints and political controversies.