1. ABSTRACT This study uses acoustic phonetic techniques to verify reports of back vowel raising in Dublin English and re-interpret those changes. Hickey [9] describes the raising of a series of back vowels as characteristic of a new variety of Dublin English. He interprets this raising as a shift away from the open realisations of vernacular forms of Dublin English. This study confirms the pre...

The following study provides a close scrutiny of the conduct of Punjabi newspapers during the Punjab Assembly Elections of 2007 and demonstrates, with the help of comparative empirical analysis of three newspapers (namely, Ajit, Jagbani and Punjabi Tribune), that the media has diluted and compromised its role as a watchdog of democracy. The study brings out that several factors have come togeth...

People throughout Vanuatu frequently mix Bislama (that country’s national Pidgin) into their vernaculars. Extensive code-mixing is an obvious indicator, and sometime cause, of language change or even language replacement. This paper discusses several sorts of Bislama code-mixing on Tanna among speakers of that island’s Kwamera language. It assesses levels and kinds of Bislama use in four villag...

All forms of music employ extensive borrowing and reappropriation of popular themes, tropes, and styles. These individual actions form of a complex network of genealogical interrelationships between individual songs, artists, and subgenres. These effects are especially inherent in hip hop music, in which sampling and borrowing are foundational elements of the musical culture itself. [1] Our wor...

The study that is being undertaken at the University of Porto, Portugal, aims at creating a decision tool, based on the appropriate ventilation strategies for the cooling of buildings in hot humid climates. The climatic conditions of the Amazonic region of Manaus are taken as an example of this type of climate. First, we have to identify every single architectural or climatic parameter related ...

An analytical model for the soil carbon and nitrogen cycles is studied from the dynamical system point of view. Its main nonlinearities and feedbacks are analyzed by considering the steady state solution under deterministic hydro-climatic conditions. It is shown that, changing hydroclimatic conditions, the system undergoes dynamical bifurcations, shifting from a stable focus to a stable node an...

In behavioral ecology some authors regard the innateness concept as irretrievably confused whilst others take it to refer to adaptations. In cognitive psychology, however, whether traits are 'innate' is regarded as a significant question and is often the subject of heated debate. Several philosophers have tried to define innateness with the intention of making sense of its use in cognitive psyc...