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Wuggy: A multilingual pseudoword generator
Pseudowords play an important role in psycholinguistic experiments, either because they are required for performing tasks, such as lexical decision, or because they are the main focus of interest, such as in nonwordreading and nonce-inflection studies. We present a pseudoword generator that improves on current methods. It allows for the generation of written polysyllabic pseudowords that obey a given language’s phonotactic constraints. Given a word or nonword template, the algorithm can quickly generate pseudowords that match the template in subsyllabic structure and transition frequencies without having to search through a list with all possible candidates. Currently, the program is available for Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Serbian, and Basque, and, with little effort, it can be expanded to other languages.
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Now I'm a Phase, Now I'm Not a Phase: On the Variability of Phases with Extraction and Ellipsis
On the basis of a number of cases where the status of X with respect to phasehood changes depending on the syntactic context in which X occurs, I argue for a contextual approach to phasehood whereby the highest phrase in the extended projection of all lexical categories—N, P, A, and V (passive and active)—functions as a phase. The relevant arguments concern extraction and ellipsis. I argue that ellipsis is phaseconstrained: only phases and complements of phase heads can in principle undergo ellipsis. I show that Ā-extraction out of an ellipsis site is possible only if the ellipsis site corresponds to a phasal complement. I also provide evidence for the existence of several AspectPs, all of which have morphological manifestations, in the VP domain of English and show that they crucially affect the phasehood of this domain. The article provides a uniform account of a number of superficially different constructions involving extraction and ellipsis from Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Turkish, and English.
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Managing \Spoiled\ National Identity: War, Tourism, and Memory in Croatia
Approaching the public representation of a \"difficult past\" as a macro-level impression management dilemma, this article addresses how states manage reputation-damaging elements of their histories on global stages. Through an empirical case study, I examine how the Croatian government has represented the country to international audiences via tourism after the wars of Yugoslav secession. Challenging assumptions that contentious historical moments will be commemorated, I find that the state has managed Croatia's \"difficult\" recent past through covering and cultural reframing rather than public acknowledgment. The country has omitted the war from representations of national history and repositioned Croatia as identical in history and culture to its Western European neighbors. I draw from Goffman's work on stigma to explain the Croatian case and to develop a broader theoretical framework for understanding the conditions under which public recognition of reputation-damaging events is likely not to occur. I conclude by discussing theoretical implications for scholarship on collective memory, cultural sociology, and world polity theory.
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Belgrade Station
Reyes discusses the perils of the Balkan Route. In a cluster of warehouses behind Belgrade's main train station are a couple thousand holdouts: The Serbian government has offered heated shelters to ride out the weather, but rumor has it the shelters are a trap--a deportation dragnet-with Bulgaria at the other end. And in Bulgaria are zealots bent on violence, so rabid is their xenophobia.
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Wspólczesne oblicza raskolu i herezji w perspektywie kulturowych relacji serbsko-czarnogórskich/The Contemporary Images of 'Raskol' and Heresy from the Perspective of the Serbian-Montenegrin Cultural Relations
Abstract The Contemporary Images of 'Raskol' and Heresy from the Perspective of the Serbian-Montenegrin Cultural Relations The article addresses problems concerning the contemporary forms of 'raskol' and heresy within the Serbian-Montenegrin cultural sphere, ranging from misunderstandings with respect to the definitions of the notions in question, up to specific instances (often of an exclusively political nature) of conflicts between the canonically recognized and non-recognized Orthodox Churches. Acts of transferring both terms from the domain of religion onto the phenomena of the sociocultural and political spheres, happening very often but at the same time unjustified, characterize the contemporary discourse of intellectuals and clergymen that artificially reinforces antagonisms in the Serbian-Montenegrin relations. Potwierdza to takze nazbyt czçste, a przy tym nieuzasadnione przenoszenie terminów - takich jak omawiane tu raskol i herezja - ze sfery religijnej na róznorodne plaszczyzny zycia spolecznego. 1 Urodzony w Czamogórze, lecz mieszkaj^cy od dziesiçcioleci w Belgradzie, niezwykle populamy i nagradzany wieloma prestizowymi nagrodami literackimi w Serbii, poeta, pisarz i dramaturg Matija Beckovic (1939-) uchodzi w opinii powszechnej za jednego z najbardziej nieprzejednanych przeciwnikówniezaleznosci Czamogóry, odrçbnej tozsamoscinarodowej ikulturowej jej mieszkanców. 2 S. Maijanovic, Intenju: Matija Beckovic o Kosmetu, Crnoj Gori i patriotyzmu, http://www. novinar.de/2007/05/ll/ interyju-matija-beckovic-o-kosmetu-cmoj-gori-i-patriotizmu.html [data dostçpu: 1.12.2014], 3 (Arhm, Dr) J. Popovic, Pravoslavna Crkva i ekumenizam, Solun 1974, s. 189. M. Djordjevic, O ideolosko-politickom obrascu u SPC, \"Republika\" - 31.03.2011, br. 396-397, 1 s. 18, http://www.republika.co.rs/496-497/20.html [data dostçpu: 1.12.2014], 6 Por.
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On the Road to Normal: Negotiating Agency and State Sovereignty in Postsocialist Serbia
I examine how perceptions of state crisis and moral decay in Serbia (after the breakup of Yugoslavia) impact people's belief that they are no longer normal agents capable of effective action. More specifically, I argue that a shift in Serbia's geopolitical position and changing dynamics at international borders reveal the intimate links between people's self-conception as moral, agentive subjects and the conditions that structure state power. Discourses of normalcy are about the loss (and possible restoration) of a historically specific form of citizen agency that emerged in relationship to a functioning, sovereign, and internationally respected socialist Yugoslav state. I focus on young people's intimate experiences and narratives of everyday life and leisure, in exploring the intersection of forms of state sovereignty and the experience of citizen agency, I illuminate how young Serbian citizens experience changing configurations of state power as enabling conditions for their own moral and agentive capacities.
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Binding and the Structure of NP in Serbo-Croatian
On the basis of binding facts, I argue that Serbo-Croatian (SC) does not project DP and that DP is not a universal property of language. I show that a number of binding contrasts between English and SC follow straightforwardly from independently motivated differences in their nominal structure, most notably from the assumption that DP is present only in English. I also discuss in detail the potential significance of this puzzling set of facts for the binding theory in general. Specifically, I propose that SC employs Condition C as defined in Lasnik 1989 and, in addition to the core binding conditions, a competitive mechanism adopted from Safir 2004, which regulates the distribution of reflexives, pronouns, and R-expressions. I also argue that the binding domains for pronouns and reflexives in SC need to be formulated differently.
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Fluid Borders of National-Cultural Autonomy: The Legal Status of National Minority Councils in Serbia
This article gives an overview of the current position of minority self-governance within the Serbian legal order and its multilevel governance structure, with a particular focus on issues deriving from the missing legal determination of national minority councils. Although Serbia’s 2009 Law on National Minority Councils was welcomed by the international community, both national minority councils and public agencies have from the very beginning of its operation expressed serious concerns relating inter alia to the unspecified legal status of the councils. This has resulted in frequent misunderstandings in practice and, rather than being real self-governments of national minorities under public law, the councils are usually treated as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or organizations under the influence of political parties. Instead of presenting (international) political and social scientific approaches to the legal character of non-territorial autonomy in general, the article focuses on concrete legislative solutions and Constitutional Court practice regarding issues relevant to the de jure status of national minority councils in Serbia, such as election rules, competences, and funding.
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