Sounding the depths at the confluence of numerosity and language

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caleb Everett
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Numerical Cognition ◽  
Number Words ◽  
Number Systems ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractResearchers in a variety of disciplines are currently exploring how number words and other culturally variant symbols for quantities enable and enhance numerical cognition. In this article I survey the ways in which fieldwork among Amazonian languages is helping to elucidate the relationship between numerical cognition and language. I highlight several noteworthy findings in recent work on this topic, address their implications, and also consider the potential of future fieldwork on languages with typologically remarkable number systems.

Religion and Toleration from the Enlightenment to the Post-Secular Era

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Forst
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Pierre Bayle ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter addresses the classical question of the relationship between enlightenment and religion. In doing so, the chapter compares Jürgen Habermas's thought to that of Pierre Bayle and Immanuel Kant. For, although Habermas undoubtedly stands in a tradition founded by Bayle and Kant, he develops a number of important orientations within this tradition and has changed his position in his recent work. The chapter studies this change to understand Habermas's position better. It also draws attention to a fundamental question raised by the modern world: what common ground can human reason establish in the practical and theoretical domain between human beings who are divided by profoundly different religious (including antireligious) views?

A Case of Handwriting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Blotting Paper ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Popular Literacy ◽  
The Relationship

At this point the chapters catch up in time with the events narrated in the prologue. Chapter 5 begins by recounting George Nicholls’ discoveries in June 1921. The detective searched the Goodings’ and Swans’ houses and took from the Swans’ a quantity of blotting paper that bore the imprint of some of the libels. Rose Gooding’s handwriting was very different. When Sir Archibald Bodkin, the Director of Public Prosecutions, read Nicholls’ report, he declared that this was fundamentally ‘a case of handwriting’. How, Bodkin mused, could an ‘uneducated’ woman develop such a distinctive style? The chapter uses Bodkin’s reaction to Rose Gooding’s letters, the evidence provided by spelling and misspelling, and the inventory of writing paraphernalia in the Gooding and Swan households, to explore the relationship between popular literacy and agency, engaging with the recent work of Jane Caplan and Patrick Joyce.

Faith and Goodness

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Eleonore Stump
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alvin Plantinga ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Richard Swinburne ◽  
The Relationship

Recent work on the subject of faith has tended to focus on the epistemology of religious belief, considering such issues as whether beliefs held in faith are rational and how they may be justified. Richard Swinburne, for example, has developed an intricate explanation of the relationship between the propositions of faith and the evidence for them. Alvin Plantinga, on the other hand, has maintained that belief in God may be properly basic, that is, that a belief that God exists can be part of the foundation of a rational noetic structure. This sort of work has been useful in drawing attention to significant issues in the epistemology of religion, but these approaches to faith seem to me also to deepen some long-standing perplexities about traditional Christian views of faith.

scholarly journals Bilingualism and numerical cognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 340-360
Author(s):  
Carina da Silva Santos ◽  
Ingrid Finger
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Numerical Cognition ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Language History ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between bilingualism and numerical cognition, more specifically, the way English-Portuguese bilinguals solve simple mathematical problems when these are presented in different formats (digits, English, and Portuguese) and whether their language history background has any effect on such behavior. The main results suggest that bilinguals are faster and more accurate in solving mathematical problems presented in digit format and in solving those problems presented in the written format when the language of the stimuli was the one in which they learned basic arithmetic. Also, the participants’ language background experience did not have any significance in their task performance.

scholarly journals The relationship between Hypertension and weight status in Iraqi population

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-755
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Predisposing Factor ◽  
Diastolic Hypertension ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Medical Books

Most medical books and researches documented that increased body weight is a predisposing factor to hypertension , and there is recent work in this field as well. In this research , the relationships between hypertension and body weight with age were studied in Iraqi population . It is concluded that diastolic hypertension is separated from systolic and combined hypertension and increased body weight has little effect on increased blood pressure.

scholarly journals An orthographic effect in loanword adaptation

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Daland ◽  
Mira Oh
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Loanword Adaptation ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
Source Form ◽  
The Relationship

Loanword corpora have been an important tool in studying the relationship between speech perception and native-language phonotactics. Recent work has challenged this use of loanword corpora on methodological grounds, based on the fact that source and possibly loan orthography conditions the adaptation. The present study replicates and extends this finding by using information theory to quantify the relative strength of orthographic effects, in the adaptation of English vowels into Korean. It is found that the orthographic effect is strong for unstressed vowels, but almost unnoticable for stressed vowels. It is proposed that orthography plays a large role in adaptation only when the source form is perceptually compatible with multiple phonological parses in the borrowing language.

The Number Language used by Preschool Children and their Mothers in the Context of Cooking

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Young-Loveridge
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Number Word ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Number Words ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Play Context

The present study was designed to explore the spontaneous use of number language by preschool children and their mothers in the context of cooking. The results show that preschool children use a variety of number words in this context. Mothers made substantially greater use of number words than did their children, possibly because the cooking context required a greater degree of control by the adult than would have been the case in a free-play context. Many instances of number-word use by mothers and by children went unacknowledged by their conversational partners. Although the relationship between children's number word use and that of their mothers was relatively weak (r=.34), there was a considerably stronger relationship between the numbers of reciprocal numeracy episodes and children's number-word use (r=.59). These findings support the idea that contingent responsiveness by adults is important for enhancing children's mathematics learning.

Bunyan and the Historians

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamsin Spargo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
English Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Analysis

This chapter offers a chronological account of varying historical and historicist approaches to the life and writings of John Bunyan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The theoretical assumptions of major scholars in the field are highlighted, from a Whig such as Macaulay in the nineteenth century to a Marxist such as Christopher Hill in the twentieth, to more recent work by contemporary historians such as Richard L. Greaves and N. H. Keeble. It explores changing conceptions of the relationship between text and context, and past, present, and future, as they have informed research, analysis, historiography, and interpretation within the developing disciplines of History and of English Literature. This exploration is coupled with a consideration of the often unacknowledged relationship between teleological conceptions of history and the practice of historical research and historiography.

scholarly journals Cronenberg, Flyness, and the Other-self

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
William Beard
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

David Cronenberg's recent work has shown a continuation of the same themes and motifs found in his exploratory and formative works of the 70s and early 80s. The relationship of mind and body, of rationality and flesh, of control and loss of identity, continues to be the dominating dichotomy of his cinematic world. But the relatively simple thematic oppositions of repression and explosion, and their relatively unexamined emotional underpinnings of ironic detachment and regurgitative disgust, of an early film like Shivers (1975) have given way in the 1980s to a much more complex and sensitive exploration of the causes and implications of Cronenberg's understanding of things. The author proposes, in this essay, to undertake a close examination of Cronenberg's 1986 film The Fly as a partial illustration of this process of continuation and refinement.

‘RESONANCE AND DISTANCE’: SIMON BAINBRIDGE IN CONVERSATION

Tempo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (265) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Malcolm Miller
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Primo Levi ◽  
Gunther Schuller ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis interview, based on a conversation with Simon Bainbridge at London's City Literary Institute in June 2011, presents something of a rounded portrait of the composer while covering a good deal of ground. We began our conversation with a discussion of a recent work for orchestra, Concerti Grossi, going into some detail in matters of scoring and structure. The discussion then broadened to cover such topics as the creative process, formative influences (for example, his parents' activity in the visual arts, Debussy's Jeux, John Lambert and Gunther Schuller), instrumentation and the relationship of music and text. This led on specifically to Bainbridge's settings of Primo Levi, in for example the cycle Ad Ora Incerta, and to a consideration of the composer's relationship with the audience.

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