Favism in an English-born Child

Homozygous Thalassaemia in an English Child.

During the past few years there have been several reports of thalassaemia occurring in English families (Garrett and Morton, 1960; Callender, Mallett, and Lehmann, 1961; Josse, 1962; Roberts, 1963). All the cases, however, have been of the heterozygous form of the disease (thalassaemia minor and thalassaemia trait). This paper reports the case of an English child with homozygous thalassaemia (t...

Favism.

Swiping in Child English

English allows a peculiar type of elliptical wh-questions that can be found only under sluicing, in which the wh-object of the preposition appears not after the preposition but before it, as in “John fixed it, but I don’t remember what with.” Merchant (2002) calls this construction Swiping. This study evaluates two competing syntactic analyses of Swiping, by using data from a novel source: the ...

An annotated English child language database

The use of large-scale naturalistic data has been opening up new investigative possibilities for language acquisition studies, providing a basis for empirical predictions and for evaluations of alternative acquisition hypotheses. One widely used resource is CHILDES (MacWhinney, 1995) with transcriptions for over 25 languages of interactions involving children, with the English corpora available...

Favism in London.

Favism is an acute haemolytic anaemia caused by an acquired allergy to a protein of the broad bean (Viciafava). Reports of the disease date from before the fifth century B.C. and in a good review of the literature Luisada (1941) points out that favism used to have a very wide distribution in the Mediterranean basin. It now occurs particularly in the Sardinians, who seem to have retained the mor...