Zoll cites the case of Kukuya, with trisyllabic patterns of LLL, HHH, HLL, LLH and LHL. The absence of *HHL and LHH motivates the ranking of CLASH > LAPSE, as these patterns violate CLASH Hausa non-derived trisyllabic forms require the opposite ranking. The tone patterns are LHL, HLH, LHH and HHL, but there are no *LLH or *HLL patterns, which violate LAPSE. Nevertheless, edge-in forms as in (1c...

Recent developments in cosmology indicate that every history having a nonzero probability is realized in infinitely many distinct regions of spacetime. Thus, it appears that the universe contains infinitely many civilizations exactly like our own, as well as infinitely many civilizations that differ from our own in any way permitted by physical laws. We explore the implications of this conclusi...

Our understandings of civilizations on Earth inevitably influence speculation about extraterrestrial civilizations. Specifically, our assumptions about the development of Earth’s societies continually shape our conjectures about alien societies, on topics including the probability of their existence, their possible characteristics, appropriate search strategies, and the wisdom of seeking contac...

Noting that many articles and fundamental reports are devoted to the problems of geo-economic geopolitical transformations, author offers his view on some main trends such changes causes determine them. The question formation transformation structure world economy in current conditions – period after 2008-2009 global financial crisis, with impact COVID-19 pandemic Russian Federation’s ongoing w...

An estimate of the number of advanced technical civilizations on planets of other stars depends on our knowledge of the rate of star formation; the frequency of favorably situated planets; the probabilities of the origins of life, of intelligence and of technical civilization ; and the iifetimes of technicai civilizations. These parameters are poorly known. The estimates of the present paper le...

This paper discusses the effects of tonal clash (or strict adjacency between two accents) on the phonetic realization of H* accents in Catalan. The analysis of the data shows that the adjacency of two rising accents triggers a drastic temporal reorganization of the Fo gestures involved, resulting in anticipation of the first gesture and delay of the second. Specifically, in crowded tonal enviro...