Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract We investigated whether children (3-and 4-year-olds) and adults can use the active passive alternation – essentially a choice of subject– in a way...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract We investigated whether children (3-and 4-year-olds) and adults can use the active passive alternation – essentially a choice of subject– in a way...

The earliest concept of a balance of nature in Western thought saw it as being provided by gods but requiring human aid or encouragement for its maintenance. With the rise of Greek natural philosophy, emphasis shifted to traits gods endowed species with at the outset, rather than human actions, as key to maintaining the balance. The dominance of a constantly intervening God in the Middle Ages l...

About a year ago the Obstetric Society of London conceived the happy idea of inviting the accoucheurs of different countries to meet in London and talk over subjects of mutual interest. They were to combine also, and producc an exhibition of obstetric instruments ; each one bringing with him the armamentarium lucince, both ancient and modern, of the country which he represented. Invitations wer...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract We investigated whether children (3-and 4-year-olds) and adults can use the active passive alternation – essentially a choice of subject– in a way...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract We investigated whether children (3-and 4-year-olds) and adults can use the active passive alternation – essentially a choice of subject– in a way...

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is about true love and felicitous marriage as essentials of both natural and social order. With three interwoven plots, Shakespeare’s names and references reflect three types of sources, each with associative possibilities relevant to the basic themes. The main plot is about Athenian nobles whose names draw symbolic meaning from Greek mythology. It focuses ...

This paper presents corpus and experimental data that problematize the traditional analysis of must as a strong necessity modal, as recently revived and defended by von Fintel and Gillies (2010). I provide naturalistic examples showing that must p can be used alongside an explicit denial of knowledge of p or certainty in p, and that it can be conjoined with an expression indicating that p is no...

Background: In this study, the question of whether auditory training for children with a reading and spelling disorder and a central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) can improve spelling performance is investigated. The training apparatus was the Audiva Company‘s DichoTrainer. Method: Dichotic discrimination, auditory/kinaesthetic perception and behavioral strengths and peculiarities as well...

The millenarian promise of restoring mankind to its original God-like perfection-the underlying premise of the religion of tech­ nology-was never meant to be universal. It was in essence an elitist expectation, reserved only for the elect-the "happy few," in Robert Sins heimer's felicitous (Shakespearean) phrase. Half the species, women, were expressly excluded (see appendix), and so too were t...