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A Critique Of Markedness-Based Theories In Phonology, Naomi Gurevich Jan 2001

A Critique Of Markedness-Based Theories In Phonology, Naomi Gurevich

Naomi Gurevich

The notion of markedness has been prevalent in phonology since its use by one of the founders of the Prague school of phonology, Trubetzkoy (1939). In contemporary writing it is most often used as a measure of the relative naturalness of linguistic elements. In this paper I explore the use of markedness in phonology literature and argue that it is an ill-defined notion that relies on circular reasoning and, quite often, leads to conflicting or vacuous predictions. Specifically, I question the generative theory-internal notion that markedness is encoded in the grammar. I focus on the multi-dimensional aspect of markedness in …


“No Problem, Mon”: Strategies Used To Promote Reggae Music As Jamaica’S Cultural Heritage, Stephen A. King, P. Renee Foster Jan 2001

“No Problem, Mon”: Strategies Used To Promote Reggae Music As Jamaica’S Cultural Heritage, Stephen A. King, P. Renee Foster

Stephen A. King

This paper examines efforts by the Jamaican government and its surrogates to control the Rastafarian movement and reggae music. Since the 1970s, the Jamaican establishment has employed an adjustment tactic, co-optation, to transform reggae music and Rastafari into a cultural attraction. In recent years, however, Rastafarian images and reggae have become increasingly important in the promotion of Jamaica’s tourist industry. The Jamaican government and its supporters have marketed the Rastafarian movement and reggae music as part of Jamaica’s “cultural heritage.” As a result, the Rastafarian movement has declined as a political and social force in Jamaica. In sum, reggae and …


Review Of Running, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Running, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Gale Encyclopedia Of Alternative Medicine, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Gale Encyclopedia Of Alternative Medicine, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Biosphere: Humans In The Worlds Ecosystems, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Biosphere: Humans In The Worlds Ecosystems, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Handbook Of Hypnotic Inductions, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Handbook Of Hypnotic Inductions, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Haptic Perception Of The Horizontal By Blind And Low-Vision Individuals, Morton A. Heller, Deneen D. Brackett, Eric Scroggs, Angela C. Allen, Shavonda Green Jan 2001

Haptic Perception Of The Horizontal By Blind And Low-Vision Individuals, Morton A. Heller, Deneen D. Brackett, Eric Scroggs, Angela C. Allen, Shavonda Green

Morton A. Heller

We examined haptic perception of the horizontal in visually impaired people. Blind people (late blind and congenitally blind), persons with very low vision, and blindfolded sighted individ- uals felt raised-line drawings of jars at four angles. They had to demonstrate their understanding that water remains horizontal, despite jar tilt, by selecting the correct raised-line drawing given four choices. Low-vision subjects, with near perfect scores, performed significantly better than the other groups of subjects. While the late-blind and blindfolded sighted subjects performed slightly better than the congenitally blind participants, the difference between the late-blind and congenitally blind groups was nonsignificant. The …


The Two Koreas: Prospects For Economic Cooperation And Integration, Marcus Noland Dec 2000

The Two Koreas: Prospects For Economic Cooperation And Integration, Marcus Noland

Marcus Noland

After nearly a half century of strident adherence to the principles of socialism and self-reliance, North Korea may be on the verge of opening itself to outside aid and advice. Motivators include a decade of economic trouble punctuated by declining output and famine as well as underdeveloped infrastructures and reduction in foreign trade and material support. The limits of national selfsufficiency may finally have become admissible in North Korea, as evidenced by recent diplomatic negotiations and cooperative commercial projects with capitalist nations. South Korea, meanwhile, is struggling to regain ground lost in the financial crisis and to correct faults in …


Real Time And Relative Indeterminacy In Economic Theory, Mario Rizzo Dec 2000

Real Time And Relative Indeterminacy In Economic Theory, Mario Rizzo

Mario Rizzo

This article develops the implications of a dynamic conception of time for the idea of plan coordination in economics. It traces the development of some philosophical, scientific and economic theories in the twentieth century. A contrast is made with static or Newtonian views of time in economics.


Identifying Document Genres To Improve Web Search Effectiveness. The Bulletin Of The American Society For Information Science And Technology, Barbara H. Kwasnik, K. Crowston, M. Nilan, D. Roussinov Dec 2000

Identifying Document Genres To Improve Web Search Effectiveness. The Bulletin Of The American Society For Information Science And Technology, Barbara H. Kwasnik, K. Crowston, M. Nilan, D. Roussinov

Barbara H. Kwasnik

No abstract provided.


Life At The Bottom, Ananya Vajpeyi Nov 2000

Life At The Bottom, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


Gis And Spatial Analysis In Urban And Regional Research, Derek Bond Nov 2000

Gis And Spatial Analysis In Urban And Regional Research, Derek Bond

Derek Bond

The early optimism surrounding GIS has now faded. Few GIS implementations have lived up to expectation. The most successful have been those at the operational level where their main role has been to replace paper maps with digital ones. However, as the cost of GIS implementation falls and spatial data becomes more readily available there is a need to consider the future of GIS and spatial analysis. This is particularly important in the field of urban and regional research especially where considerable investment in GIS has already been made. This paper looks at the major issues that face regional and …


Contagion Effects, Macroeconomic Conditions, And The Design Of Regulatory Capital Standards, Kevin T. Jacques, Stephen Hiemstra Nov 2000

Contagion Effects, Macroeconomic Conditions, And The Design Of Regulatory Capital Standards, Kevin T. Jacques, Stephen Hiemstra

Kevin T Jacques

No abstract provided.


The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King Nov 2000

The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.


The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King Nov 2000

The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.


Sequential Screening, Pascal Courty, Hao Li Oct 2000

Sequential Screening, Pascal Courty, Hao Li

hao li

We present a model of price discrimination where a monopolist faces consumers with unitary demands who learn their valuations over time. Consumers are privately informed at the time of contracting about valuation distribution, but they privately learn their actual valuations after contracting. The monopolist sequentially screens consumers with a menu of contracts: they first choose a contract and then choose the level of consumption according to the terms specified in the contract. A deterministic sequential mechanism is a menu of refund contracts, each consisting of an advance payment and a refund amount in case of no consumption, but general sequential …


Risk-Sharing, Sorting, And Early Contracting, Hao Li, Wing Suen Oct 2000

Risk-Sharing, Sorting, And Early Contracting, Hao Li, Wing Suen

hao li

In an assignment market with uncertainty regarding productive ability of participants, early contracting can occur before the uncertainty is resolved as participants balance the trade-off between insurance provided by early bilateral contracts and the gains from more efficient sorting by remaining in the market. We apply competitive equilibrium analysis to determine the patterns of early contracting, the terms of early contracts, and the distribution of benefits of early contracting. Early contracts can be signed between more promising agents (who are more likely to have higher abilities) because the gains from insurance outweigh the loss of inefficient sorting, while less promising …


Rights And Obligations Of Third Parties, Aristides N. Hatzis Sep 2000

Rights And Obligations Of Third Parties, Aristides N. Hatzis

Aristides N. Hatzis

Three different issues, related to third party involvement in a contractual relationship, are examined. The first two (assignment of contractual rights/delegation of contractual duties and third-party beneficiary contracts) are examined in a unified way. After pointing to the striking similarity between beneficiary and assignment contracts, we discuss the non-simultaneous assent argument, the danger of creating open classes of beneficiaries without the intention of the contracting parties, and other problems. In a second part, we deal with the controversial issue of efficient breach due to inducement by a third party. After reviewing the literature, we briefly consider the use of liquidated …


The Political Economy Of Social Security, Georges Casamatta, Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau Sep 2000

The Political Economy Of Social Security, Georges Casamatta, Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau

Georges Casamatta

We consider a two-period overlapping generations model in which individual voters differ by age and by productivity. In such a setting, a redistributive pay-as-you-go system is politically sustainable, even when the interest rate is higher than the rate of population growth. The workers with medium wages (not those with the lowest wages) and the retirees form a majority which votes for a positive level of social security. This level depends on the difference between the rates of population growth and interest as well as on the redistributiveness of the benefit rule.


A Review Of Markets For Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program, Peter Cramton Sep 2000

A Review Of Markets For Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

No abstract provided.


Wage Shocks And North American Labor-Market Integration, Raymond Robertson Sep 2000

Wage Shocks And North American Labor-Market Integration, Raymond Robertson

Raymond Robertson

No abstract provided.


Percepciones Ciudadanas Hacia La Democracia Y Las Instituciones Políticas En Los Países Andinos, Flavia Freidenberg Aug 2000

Percepciones Ciudadanas Hacia La Democracia Y Las Instituciones Políticas En Los Países Andinos, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.


Medios De Comunicación Y La Función De Establecimiento De La Agenda: Un Estudio Empírico En Argentina, Flavia Freidenberg, Orlando D'Adamo, Virginia García Beaudoux Aug 2000

Medios De Comunicación Y La Función De Establecimiento De La Agenda: Un Estudio Empírico En Argentina, Flavia Freidenberg, Orlando D'Adamo, Virginia García Beaudoux

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.


Criterios Para La Descentralización, Fernando Carrión Mena Aug 2000

Criterios Para La Descentralización, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El proceso centralizador de la sociedad, la economía, la cultura, la política y el territorio -en un contexto de globalización y revolución científico tecnológico-ha conducido al desarrollo de su antítesis: la descentralización. Este proceso, que se inició en Europa con anticipación a lo ocurrido en América Latina, requiere ser conocido y analizado. Es necesario hacer un balance de las principales experiencias, así como de la historia de los procesos particulares. Mucho más, si se constata que no hoy un modelo de descentralización; aunque es innegable la existencia de ciertas constantes generales. Esto significa que cada país en cada momento debe …


"Classification Structures In The Changing Environment Of Active Commercial Websites: The Case Of Ebay.Com". In Beghtol, Clare, Howarth Lynne C., And Williamson, Nancy J. (Eds.) Dynamism And Stability In Knowledge Organization., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Xiaoyong Liu Jul 2000

"Classification Structures In The Changing Environment Of Active Commercial Websites: The Case Of Ebay.Com". In Beghtol, Clare, Howarth Lynne C., And Williamson, Nancy J. (Eds.) Dynamism And Stability In Knowledge Organization., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Xiaoyong Liu

Barbara H. Kwasnik

This paper reports on a portion of a larger ongoing project. We address the issues of information organization and retrieval in large, active commercial websites. More specifically, we address the use of classification for providing access to the contents of such sites. We approach this analysis by describing the functionality and structure of the classification scheme of one such representative, large, active, commercial websites: eBay.com, a web-based auction site for millions of users and items. We compare eBay’s classification scheme with the Art & Architecture thesaurus, which is a tool for describing and providing access to material culture.


Políticas Públicas E Targeting Setorial - Efeitos Da Nova Política Industrial Sobre O Setor Automobilístico Brasileiro, Eduardo Meira Zauli Dr. Jul 2000

Políticas Públicas E Targeting Setorial - Efeitos Da Nova Política Industrial Sobre O Setor Automobilístico Brasileiro, Eduardo Meira Zauli Dr.

Eduardo Meira Zauli

No abstract provided.


Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton Jul 2000

Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Comment on deficiency charge in installed capability market. For ISO New England.


The Uneasy Case For The Flat Tax, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, F. H. Buckley Jun 2000

The Uneasy Case For The Flat Tax, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, F. H. Buckley

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

There is a secret paradox at the heart of social contract theories. Such theories assume that, because personal security and private property are at risk in a state of nature, subjects will agree to grant Leviathan a monopoly of violence. But what is to prevent Leviathan from turning on his subjects once they have lain down their arms? If Leviathan has the same incentives as his subjects in the Hobbesian state of nature, he will plunder them more thoroughly than ever they plundered themselves in the state of nature. Thus the social contract always leaves subjects worse off, unless Leviathan …


Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton Jun 2000

Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Further comments on energy price cap as a response to design flaws. For ISO New England.