Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action

Commitment, Theories and Typologies

Typologies in GPs’ referral practice

BACKGROUND GPs' individual decisions to refer and the various ways of working when they refer are important determinants of secondary care use. The objective of this study was to explore and describe potential characteristics of GPs' referral practice by investigating their opinions about referring and their self-reported experiences of what they do when they refer. METHODS Observational cros...

The Typologies of Realism

Much more than a single theory, realism is a school of thought containing numerous related branches. In recent years an outpour of debate and exchange within the realist tradition has captured the attention of scholars. Many scholars have attempted to create schemes classifying the different branches and threads of realist thought that have emerged, while others have introduced a wealth of new ...

Aggression ’ s Typologies

Far from being a term associated with a single type of behavior, aggression is a multifaceted concept, encompassing a multitude of behaviors with different functions and antecedents. Although not all forms of aggression are contemplated in this paper, our purpose is to provide a short summary of much of the research that attempts to distinguish among different kinds of animal and human aggressi...

Verifying Vowel Harmony Typologies

This paper applies finite state technologies to verify the typological validity of Turbid Spreading, a theory of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004). Previous analyses of vowel harmony in OT have been prone to typological inconsistencies, predicting grammars that do not occur in natural language (Wilson, 2003). However, attempts to eliminate typological patho...