A number of arguments are given against the traditional word order typology based on the six types SOY, SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS, and OSV, and in favour of an alternative typology based on two binary parameters OV vs. VO and SV vs. VS. The arguments given include ones based on various advantages of collapsing VSO and VOS into a single type, the infrequency of clauses containing a noun subject and nou...

Prosodic typology has generally concentrated on those aspects of prosodic representation which are assumed to be represented in the lexicon. It is argued here that non-lexical representation at various levels, underlying phonological, surface phonological and phonetic, can also constitute a basis for prosodic typology. An example is given of a low-level comparison of English and French pitch pa...

The present paper is addressed to (1) the validation of a recently proposed typology of anxiety and depression, and (2) the presentation of a new tool-the Anxiety and Depression Questionnaire (ADQ)-based on this typology. Empirical data collected across two stages-construction and validation-allowed us to offer the final form of the ADQ, designed to measure arousal anxiety, apprehension anxiety...

The objective of this paper is to review briefly the theory of contemporary sustainable landscape planning, to present a typology of landscape-planning methods and apply the typology to several landscape-planning frameworks and methods. Sustainability is an international policy goal with multiple dimensions and implications for planning. Landscape planning prescribes alternative spatial configu...

In this commentary, Hamer, Hill and Harrison critically appraise a systematic review comparing lower versus standard targeted blood pressure how impacts morbidity mortality in people with hypertension.

To foster comparison of policy interventions across the various categories of licit and illicit drugs, we develop a typology of policies intended to address drug abuse problems. The principal dimensions of the typology are policy type and intervention channel. While the typology has important limitations, as a mechanism to organize information and stimulate thought it holds the potential to imp...

Received July 6, 1 979; accepted after revision October 30, 1979. 1Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound, New England Medical Center Hospital, 1 71 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 021 1 1. Address reprint requests to P. C. Kahn. 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New England Medical Center Hospital, 1 7i Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. AJR 134:588-589, March 198...

Short titles: Inverse Problems in Electrocardiology Address for correspondence: Dr. Robert S. Macleod, Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI, Building 500, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone: (801)581-8183, FAX: (801)581-3128, Email: [email protected]. Support: Richard A. and Nora Eccles Harrison Treadwell Fund for Cardiovascular Research and awards from the Nora Eccles Treadwell Fou...