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Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese
'Voice and V' investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. The book further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through mino…
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- 9780262320559
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) :illustrations.
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities."'Big Data' is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this exam…
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- 9780262327862
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 383 pages)
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Touch (Second Edition)
"A Bradford book."Although the therapeutic benefits of touch have become increasingly clear, American society, claims Tiffany Field, is dangerously touch-deprived. Many schools have "no touch" policies; the isolating effects of Internet-driven work and life can leave us hungry for tactile experience. In this book Field explains why we may need a daily dose of touch. The first sensory input in l…
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262320641
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- 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) :illustrations.
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WordNet :an electronic lexical database
"Contributors : Reem Al-Halimi, Robert C. Berwick, J.F.M. Burg, Martin Chodorow, Christiane Fellbaum, Joachim Grabowski, Sanda Harabagiu, Marti A. Hearst, Graeme Hirst, Douglas A. Jones, Rick Kazman, Karen T. Kohl, Shari Landes, Claudia Leacock, George A. Miller, Katherine J. Miller, Dan Moldovan, Naoyuki Nomura, Uta Priss, Philip Resnik, David St-Onge, Randee Tengi, Reind P. van de Riet, Ellen…
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- 9780262272551
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 423 pages).
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Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems
Originally published under the title: Workflow management : modellen, methoden en systemen, 1997, by Academic Service.This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization's resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right informati…
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- 9780262285414
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such as space, time, causalit…
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- 9780262314275
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- 1 online resource (xx, 488 pages) :illustrations.
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Why Leaders Fail Ethically A Paradigmatic Evaluation of Leadership
Contrary to popular conceptions that ethical failures in leadership are correlated with economic downturns and other stressful market conditions, this book argues that such transgressions are an intrinsic element of leadership, as it is defined under the current prevailing paradigm. In recent years the crisis of failures in ethical leadership across organizations, particularly corporations, …
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- 978-3-319-12733-0
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White Space Communication Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges
This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the field are covered. These include emerging standards, technical insights from early pilots and simulations, software defined radio…
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- 978-3-319-08747-4
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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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- 978-3-662-45837-2
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What Is Health Insurance (Good) For? An Examination of Who Gets It, Who Pays…
This informative volume synthesizes the literatures on health economics, risk management, and health services into a concise guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance with an eye to its wide-scale upgrade. Its scope takes in concepts of health capital, strengths and limitations of insurance models, the effectiveness of coverage and services, and the roles of healthcare provid…
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