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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Survey Summary Report for the Duluth Lakeside Stormwater Reduction Project (LSRP)
No full text1 electronic resource (PDF, 14 pages, includes map and illustrations)The study was funded The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and by the USEPA.Ekman, Karlyn; Walker, Rachel. (2008). Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Survey Summary Report for the Duluth Lakeside Stormwater Reduction Project (LSRP). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/182370
Non-point Source Pollution (NPS) Project Evaluation Practices in Minnesota: Summary Report
No full text1 electronic resource (PDF, 9, 18 pages, includes graphs)Eckman, Karlyn; Walker, Rachel; Bouapao, Lilao; Nuckles, Kimberly. (2008). Non-point Source Pollution (NPS) Project Evaluation Practices in Minnesota: Summary Report. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/182369
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Vowel Feature Licensing at a Distance: Evidence from Northern Spanish Language Varieties
No full textThis paper centers on the problem of transparency in Romance metaphony patterns, wherein a post-tonic high vowel triggers height assimilation in a stressed vowel. Two patterns are contrasted involving words with antepenultimate stress: systems that show height assimilation across a transparent penult and systems that exhibit harmony in both an intervening penult vowel and the stressed antepenult. A two-fold proposal is made. First, it is argued that metaphony is driven by a licensing constraint which requires that marked structure be associated with a strong position. In metaphony, the high, unstressed vowel is marked by virtue of its perceptual difficulty. Second, a generalized licensing constraint formulation is proposed, under which licensing is satisfied by various configurations. These include direct licensing and indirect licensing configurations (Steriade 1995), and also a new configuration, termed identity licensing, in which marked structure in a weak position is licensed through a correspondent in a strong position. Identity licensing maintains strict segmental locality (Ni Chiosain & Padgett 2001) by positing a copied feature in forms showing assimilation across a transparent penult vowel. Applications of the generalized licensing approach to the Asturian Lena Bable and Nalon Valley varieties and the Cantabrian Tudanca variety are discussed.The definitive version of this paper was published in WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2004) and is available at http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl23.htm
Buriat Syllable Weight and Head Prominence
No full textIn this paper I argue for a violable optimality-theoretic constraint penalizing branching constituency in moras. I examine this constraint in relation to a problem in Buriat syllable structure in which a consonant appears in a position normally reserved for the second vocalic member of a nucleus but does not contribute to syllable weight. In general, the maximal constituency of a Buriat syllable is defined by a CVVC structure, and these syllables are treated as heavy in the stress pattern of the language. This form obeys the properties of typical Buriat syllable structure that vowels may be long or short (long includes diphthongs) and there are no complex onsets or codas.Yet one case appears to be an exception to these generalizations. CVNG (N=a velar nasal, G=a voiced velar stop) is the only syllable form in Buriat with a final consonant cluster. Furthermore, it has two apparently conflicting properties, namely that it is maximal in its constituency, so CVVNG is not possible, yet it patterns as light with respect to stress. Indeed, consonants never contribute to syllable weight in this language. In a derivational model, the CVNG syllable appears to require the elaborated nuclear moraic model of syllable structure proposed by Shaw (1992, 1993); however, I show that with a violable branching mora constraint, the facts of Buriat syllable structure can follow under a simpler model of syllable structure. I argue that this constraint in combination with standard syllable structure constraints and the independently motivated notion of head prominence can predict precisely the range of Buriat syllable forms and their weight without making use of the nuclear moraic model. Concluding discussion shows that the analysis proposed here has interesting implications for both maximal constituency effects and moraic domination of coda consonants.The definitive version of this paper was published in Phonology at Santa Cruz 3 (1995), no longer available from the publisher
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A Ternary Model of Morphology-Phonology Correspondence
No full textThis article develops a ternary model of morphology-phonology (MP) correspondence. The model incorporates mappings between (i) the input and output of phonological elements, (ii) the input and output of morphological elements and (iii) the phonological and morphological elements in an output. It is argued that such mappings stand in place of certain isolated constraints such as Realize-Morpheme (e.g. versions proposed by Samek-Lodovici 1993, Gnandesikan 1997, Walker 1998) and M-Parse (Prince and Smolensky 1993), and the model makes precise these constraints' status and formalism in the theory. The model's application is demonstrated with cases involving morpheme realization, ineffability, and double affixation, with emphasis on patterns in Mandarin Chinese. It is also proposed that the MP model of correspondence obviates the Principle of Consistency of Exponence (McCarthy and Prince 1993) with positive results. The implicit indexing that Consistency of Exponence necessitates is brought under the umbrella of correspondence. Also, a case of reduplication in Anxiang Chinese suggests that the principle is violable, and therefore belongs in the set of rankable constraints.The definitive version of this paper was published in WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2004) and is available at http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl23.htm
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