EVOLUTION OF THE BURMESE VOWEL SYSTEM By NATHAN W. HILL School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Some research notes on Carl A. Trocki's publication Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy.

Governing Sustainable Development Goals: interactions, infrastructures, and institutions

*London International Development Centre; School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, †London International Development Centre; University College London, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, ‡University College London, Centre for Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, §University College London, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, ¶University College...

Climate and climate change

*University College London, Institute for Global Health and Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, †University College London, Institute for Global Health, ‡University College London, Department of Geography, §London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Social and Environmental Research, ¶University College London, Department of Geography, **School of Oriental and African ...

A Tale of Two Cities: Community Density and African American English Vowels

Though variation in the African American Vowel System (AAVS) has been recognized in many communities throughout the US (Thomas 2007, Yaeger-Dror and Thomas 2010), the social and socio-geographic correlates of this system remain underexplored. To examine this issue, we compare front lax vowel production for fourteen young adult women between the ages of 20 and 22 from two communities in the Pied...

Economic Perspectives and Accounting Issues of Japanese Banks’ Non-performing Loans

This paper is based on work undertaken as Visiting Scholar at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. I would like to thank Professor Costas Lapavitsas of SOAS for valuable comments and the many British financiers for helpful research assistance. The paper also benefited greatly from the comments of participants in the seminar at the London School of Economics and P...