Vaira Vikis-Freibergs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5983587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vaira Vikis-Freibergs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vaira |
| FAMILY NAME | Vikis-Freibergs |
| SIGNATURE | VIKIS-FREIBERGS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Similarity and contrast as structuring principles in the Latvian Daina Quatrain
Becoming stylized meta-language the carrier of an which oral uses poetic natural tradition language means for acquiring its raw a s lized meta-language which uses natural l nguage for its ra materials, this acquisition being in many ways analogous to the learning of the mother-tongue (Rubin; Vīķis-Freibergs, 1984). Poetry differs from everyday prose by submitting to additional constraints, which in the case of traditional poetiy are metric as wel…
The negative parallel or negative simile in Latvian folk poetry
Narrative Structures, Meanings, and Life Histories in the Historical Novel Kaugurieši
Narrative structures serve the double function of selecting episodes and charac-ters to be included in the narration, as well as offering a generative mechanism for their sequencing, both functions being simultaneous and mutually interac-tive. According to Eco (1984), narrative structures are multilayered, including an abstract level of ideology. Few studies have been done on specific narrative subgenres, such as the historical novel. This articl…
Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs
The lyrical and the epical in Latvian and Finnish folk poetry
Amber in Latvian folk songs and folk beliefs
Reliability of Associative Response Diversity as a Characteristic of Stimulus Words
A statistic, Z, proposed by Zinger, is applied for measuring associative response diversiry. This statistic is shown to be more useful than a, a staristic previously recommended for that purpose. The values of 1/ Z vary from zero to one and tend to a different asymptotic value for each stimulus, rather than converging to zero for infinite samples as they do for a. The variance V( Z) is known and diminishes with increasing sample size. This makes …
A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs
(1980). A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 215-230
The orphan in Latvian sun-songs
Latvian Literature under the Soviets, 1940-1975
Tales of farmers and hunters
Mnemonic Retrieval Strategies in Serial to Paired-Associate Transfer
42 subjects were assigned to either of three rates of paired-associate presentation after having learned a nine-item serial list. Group I received a 4:4-sec. rate of presentation and Groups II and III 6:6 sec. and 8:8 sec., respectively. Half of the 16 paired associates were words previously learned in the serial list; half were control pairs. Contrary to previous studies, positive transfer was found for the serial-list-derived word pairs. This d…
The Sun-songs of Latvian folklore
Echoes of the Dainas and the search for identity in contemporary Latvian poetry
A recent study in Latvian mythology
A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs
(1980). A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 215-230
The orphan in Latvian sun-songs
The Sun-songs of Latvian folklore
A recent study in Latvian mythology
Echoes of the Dainas and the search for identity in contemporary Latvian poetry
Mnemonic Retrieval Strategies in Serial to Paired-Associate Transfer
42 subjects were assigned to either of three rates of paired-associate presentation after having learned a nine-item serial list. Group I received a 4:4-sec. rate of presentation and Groups II and III 6:6 sec. and 8:8 sec., respectively. Half of the 16 paired associates were words previously learned in the serial list; half were control pairs. Contrary to previous studies, positive transfer was found for the serial-list-derived word pairs. This d…
The Sun-songs of Latvian folklore
Tales of farmers and hunters
A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs
(1980). A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 215-230
The orphan in Latvian sun-songs
Latvian Literature under the Soviets, 1940-1975
Reliability of Associative Response Diversity as a Characteristic of Stimulus Words
A statistic, Z, proposed by Zinger, is applied for measuring associative response diversiry. This statistic is shown to be more useful than a, a staristic previously recommended for that purpose. The values of 1/ Z vary from zero to one and tend to a different asymptotic value for each stimulus, rather than converging to zero for infinite samples as they do for a. The variance V( Z) is known and diminishes with increasing sample size. This makes …
Amber in Latvian folk songs and folk beliefs
The lyrical and the epical in Latvian and Finnish folk poetry
Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs
Narrative Structures, Meanings, and Life Histories in the Historical Novel Kaugurieši
Narrative structures serve the double function of selecting episodes and charac-ters to be included in the narration, as well as offering a generative mechanism for their sequencing, both functions being simultaneous and mutually interac-tive. According to Eco (1984), narrative structures are multilayered, including an abstract level of ideology. Few studies have been done on specific narrative subgenres, such as the historical novel. This articl…
The negative parallel or negative simile in Latvian folk poetry
Similarity and contrast as structuring principles in the Latvian Daina Quatrain
Becoming stylized meta-language the carrier of an which oral uses poetic natural tradition language means for acquiring its raw a s lized meta-language which uses natural l nguage for its ra materials, this acquisition being in many ways analogous to the learning of the mother-tongue (Rubin; Vīķis-Freibergs, 1984). Poetry differs from everyday prose by submitting to additional constraints, which in the case of traditional poetiy are metric as wel…
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Latvian (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works)