Obscenity as an Esthetic Category

Diminutive as an Inflectional Category in Walman*

Walman, a language in the Torricelli language spoken in Papua New Guinea has an inflectional diminutive affix which occurs in agreement slots in various words, including verbs and adjectives in opposition to third person singular masculine, third person singular feminine, and third plural. It contrasts with diminutive affixes in most languages in that (1) it cannot appear on nouns; and (2) it i...

Lexical Category Acquisition as an Incremental Process

Psycholinguistic studies suggest that early on children acquire robust knowledge of the abstract lexical categories such as nouns, verbs and determiners (e.g., Gelman & Taylor, 1984; Kemp et al., 2005). Children’s grouping of words into categories might be based on various cues, including the phonological and morphological properties of a word, the distributional information about its surroundi...

Silence' as an analytical category for PD

Reporting from two field studies relating to design of IT, the authors show the importance of bringing in silence as an analytical category when conducting ethnography. With such take we aim at shedding light on the importance of understanding how diverse encounters explicitly and implicitly articulated make a difference when interpreting ethnographic material gathered around design

Obscenity: From Hicklin to Hicklin?

Componeer: An Emerging Esthetic Solution

Componeer is an emerging esthetic solution for the treatment of discolored, fractured, or congenitally malformed teeth, which once required full-coverage restorations. Componeers combine the superior esthetic of ceramic veneers, and the bondability to tooth structure like direct composite veneers. Precontoured enamel shells with excellent color stability, no laboratory procedure, and cost effec...