MENT OF OBSTETRIC PROBLEMS. Edited by T. Barnett and J. J. Foley. (Pp. xiii+ 188; illustrated. 50s.) Oxford: Pcrgamon Press, 1963. THIS is the transcript of proceedings at the first Obstetric Coonference held under the auspices of the South-WVestern Obstetrical and Gv-nacological Society in Portsmouth in November, 1961. There were five sessions, devoted to the very important practical subjects ...

Previous research has demonstrated that psychopaths exhibit abnormal language lateralization, and it has been proposed that psychopaths may be characterized by abnormal processing asymmetries in other domains as well [Hare, (1998). Psychopathy, affect, and behavior. In D. J. Cooke, A. E. Forth, & R. D. Hare (Eds.), Psychopathy: theory, research and implications for society (pp. 105–137). Nether...

The interpretation of modified PPs, like one meter behind the desk, far outside the village, or right under the lamp has never received much attention in the literature about prepositions. However, as this paper shows, the modification of PPs presents an intriguing problem for a compositional semantics of PPs. This problem can be solved when the PP is interpreted, not as a set of points or mere...

Findings from recent eye-tracking studies suggest that adults prefer to rely more on recently seen events than possible future events during sentence comprehension: When the verb in an NP1-VERB-ADV-NP2 sentence was referentially ambiguous between a recent action and an equally possible future action, adults fixated the target of the recent action more often than the not-yet-acted upon object (K...