Response to Philip Davis

Response to MacNeilage and Davis and to Oller.

The article by MacNeilage and Davis in this issue, entitled "In Defense of the 'Frames, then Content' (FC) Perspective on Speech Acquisition: A Response to Two Critiques" appears to assume that the only alternative to segment-level control is oscillation specifically of the jaw; however, other articulators could be oscillated by infants as well. This allows the preferred CV combinations to emer...

The Li isotope response to mountain uplift 1 Philip

Philip Davis and Miguel Sanchez - Martinez 1 A review of the economic theories of poverty

This paper critically analyses the views of poverty adopted by different economic schools of thought which are relevant to the UK, as well as eclectic theories focused on social exclusion and social capital. We contend that each of the economic approaches has an important contribution to make to the understanding of poverty but that no theory is sufficient in itself; a selective synthesis is ne...

Relevant and robust: a response to Marcus and Davis (2013).

Commentary Computational models in psychology are precise, fully explicit scientific hypotheses. Probabilistic models in particular formalize hypotheses about the beliefs of agents— their knowledge and assumptions about the world—using the structured collection of probabilities referred to as priors and likelihoods. The probability calculus then describes inferences that can be drawn by combini...

Davis v. Davis (1992)

In Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought to have the preembryos destroyed over the objections of his former wife, Mary Sue Davis. The decision in Davis, although not binding in other states, suggested a framework for resolving similar disputes in the US. That framework established that cou...