Rethinking Reduction

Rethinking ReductionPhonetically reduced forms are plentiful, theoretically interesting, and a key challenge for automatic speech recognition systems. Yet canonical forms are still central to models of production and perception. Drawing from different fields and diverse languages, this volume brings new insights to the debate on abstractions and canonical forms in linguistics: their psychological reality, descriptive adequacy, and technical implementability.

Gathering together medical texts

Becker examines the ideological and intellectual backgrounds of the school movement and reassesses the evidence for the supposed predecessor of the School of Nisibis

must be seen as a clear case for the National Socialists and their project of revitalization of the Volksgemeinschaft

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By telling the stories of men caught in vicious cycles of poverty

The history is as surprising as it is violent: during World War I

Life along the Silk Road continues to be both accessible and entertaining

and Mary Lou Williams—inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders

the Idaho Potato Commission—has been insulated from paying damages in tort or contract

Obwohl der Erste Weltkrieg gemeinhin als Beginn einer amerikanischen Dominanz in der Weltpolitik gesehen wird

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Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley