In 2006, I gave a series of lectures in Paris arguing for a set of rather general strategies governing language production. I was inspired to do this largely by the work of John A. Hawkins (especially his 2004 book), which argues that many morphosyntactic properties of languages can be explained in terms of how they facilitate processing. Hawkins’s thesis is that language users favor structures...

The most pervasive patterns in biogeography are those related to latitude. In particular, the most conspicuous of these patterns, such as latitudinal gradients in species richness and geographic range size, have been extensively studied and documented (Gaston, 2003; Willig et al., 2003; Hillebrand, 2004; Ruggiero & Hawkins, 2006; Mittelbach et al., 2007; Ruggiero & Werenkraut, 2007, for recent ...

An interesting general correlation appears to be emerging between variation data in performance, in languages that dispose of several structures of a given type, and the fixed conventions of grammars, in languages with fewer structures of the same type. The performance data come from corpus frequencies and processing experiments, the grammatical data from our expanding samples of languages and ...

Why study response of stream invertebrates to watershed disturbances such as clearcut logging? Stream invertebrates can be excellent integrators of changes in such ecosystem phenomena as changes in the food base of ecosystems. For example, a number of invertebrate taxa appear to track changes in food resources (Hawkins et al. 1982; Fuller et al. 1986; Wallace and Gurtz 1986; Feminella and Hawki...

Shoulder pain is a diagnostic challenge and the physical clinical examination of the shoulder is crucial. It is important that the diagnostic tests used are valid as well as reliable. The objective of the study was to assess intra- and interexaminer reliability for four manual shoulder maneuvers; the Neer impingement sign, the Hawkins-Kennedy impingement test, the Patte maneuver, the Jobe supra...

It has long been noted that children omit certain unstressed syllables from their early speech, with words like banana surfacing as [ næn ], and words like elephant being realized as [ fa] (e.g., Allen and Hawkins 1978, 1980; Echols and Newport 1992; Echols 1993; Gerken 1994; Pater 1997; Kehoe 2000; see Kehoe and StoelGammon 1997 for a recent review). This led Allen and Hawkins (1978, 1980) to ...

At first glance, the elimination of the corporate tax on business seems an obvious method of attracting new firms to the state and promoting the expansion of existing firms. And in fact, states and localities have been offering tax incentives, usually in the form of reduced property taxes or corporate income tax credits, to firms for many years. Under current law, Georgia imposes a 6 percent ta...