Afterthoughts on Analogical Representations1

Managing To Make It: Afterthoughts

Locality and right - dislocation

Right-dislocation constructions, including backgrounding and specificational afterthoughts, are subject to various limitations. Dislocated phrases themselves are islands for extraction. Moreover, there are proximity effects between dislocated phrases and their correlate in the host clause. The main effect reduces to the regular constraints on A-bar movement. This is explained from the perspecti...

Bubble Trees and Syntactic Representations1

A new mathematical object, the bubble tree, is introduced and applied to the syntactic representation of sentences. Two themes are explored: first, the comparison of dependency and constituency models; second, the application of bubble trees to a particular syntactic model.

Fostering 5th Grade Students' Understanding of Science via Salience Analogical Reasoning in On-line and Classroom Learning Environments

This study examined whether or not on-line learning (on-line as compared to classroom) influenced the progression of scientific concept construction and analogical reasoning ability; and the degree to which different analogical reasoning (surface and relational salience) contributes to the progression of scientific concept construction and analogical reasoning ability. A total of 190 5 grade st...

Some Thoughts and Afterthoughts on Medical Education

Several months ago the State University of New York conducted a Symposium on General Education which was designed as an opportunity for the exchange of ideas among representatives of the many constituent units of the University. In response to a request to present a statement on general education in relation to medical education I prepared a short paper which, I thought, contained a representat...