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... writing 1 Canoniza- tion of Mesopo- tamian religious literature The role of. meanings and overtones of the words and phrases of a foreign language . Sumerian literature . Mesopotamian literature origi- nated with the Sumerians , whose ...
... writing 1 Canoniza- tion of Mesopo- tamian religious literature The role of. meanings and overtones of the words and phrases of a foreign language . Sumerian literature . Mesopotamian literature origi- nated with the Sumerians , whose ...
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... writing activity . They are not the record of an intel- lectual evolution but of a continuous accretion , and he insists on the immediacy and the authenticity of their tes- timony . To denote their consubstantiality with his natural ...
... writing activity . They are not the record of an intel- lectual evolution but of a continuous accretion , and he insists on the immediacy and the authenticity of their tes- timony . To denote their consubstantiality with his natural ...
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... writing and read- ing of aphasic patients , therefore , usually commits the same type of error as their speech , while the reverse is not the case . Isolated disorders of writing ( dysgraphia ) or , more commonly , reading ( dyslexia ) ...
... writing and read- ing of aphasic patients , therefore , usually commits the same type of error as their speech , while the reverse is not the case . Isolated disorders of writing ( dysgraphia ) or , more commonly , reading ( dyslexia ) ...
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