Why the seahorse tail is square

Why the SQUARE vowel is the most variable in Sydney

Vowel variability is often explained in terms of linguistic and social factors. We have observed another factor that predicts vowel variability. Within four different corpora of Australian English vowels, we find a consistent relationship between the mean and standard deviation of formant values. For both F1 and F2, increases in mean formant values go hand in hand with increased variability. Gi...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Sound production in the tiger-tail seahorse Hippocampus comes: Insights into the sound producing mechanisms.

Acoustic signals of the tiger-tail seahorse (Hippocampus comes) during feeding were studied using wavelet transform analysis. The seahorse "click" appears to be a compounded sound, comprising three acoustic components that likely come from two sound producing mechanisms. The click sound begins with a low-frequency precursor signal, followed by a sudden high-frequency spike that decays quickly, ...

Square principles with tail-end agreement

This paper investigates the principles ta λ,δ, weakenings of λ which allow δ many clubs at each level but require them to agree on a tail-end. First, we prove that ta λ,<ω implies λ. Then, by forcing from a model with a measurable cardinal, we show that λ,2 does not imply ta λ,δ for regular λ, and ta δ+,δ does not imply δ+,<δ. With a supercompact cardinal the former result can be extended to si...

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