A long-standing area of interest in phonological theory has been the analysis of processes that exhibit action at a distance. Consider for example a nasal harmony process in Tshiluba (Bantu; Johnson 1972:75–76, Odden 1994:301), where the applicative suffix (among others) normally contains an l (1a), which is realized instead as n when attached to a stem that contains a nasal (1b). In Tshiluba a...

The OCP, which is exhibited at various levels of the phonological representation (e.g. featural, melodic, and tonal), has been extensively discussed in numerous studies (Leben 1973, 1978, 1980; McCarthy 1979, 1986; Archangeli 1986; Odden 1986, 1988, 1994; Archangeli & Pulleyblank 1987; Hyman 1987; Kenstowicz & Kidda 1987; Myers 1987, 1997ab; Yip 1988; Hewitt & Prince 1989; Myers & Carleton 1996...

The commentary introduces an evolutionary biocultural approach for understanding the organization of intracultural diversity in child development and uses the approach to critique the articles by Thomas S. Weisner and Harold L. Odden. [child development, evolutionary theory, cultural transmission] Weisner and Odden provide ethnographic descriptions and explanations for the organization of intra...

Kera (a Chadic language) has been cited as one of a handful of languages which exhibit long distance voicing harmony between consonants (Rose and Walker 2001, Odden 1994). It has also been claimed that Kera voiced ('depressor') consonants lower the tone of the following syllable (Ebert 1979, Wolff 1987a, Pearce 1998). This paper addresses both of these claims, showing with recordings, pitch tra...

In this policy brief, we discuss implications of the use of school-level reform designs for state and local policymakers. The more schools choose such reforms, the more is being learned about the importance of the state and local roles in facilitating appropriate matches between designs and schools and in supporting designbased improvement over time. In the Fall of 1997, Congress authorized com...

In this policy brief, we discuss implications of the use of school-level reform designs for state and local policymakers. The more schools choose such reforms, the more is being learned about the importance of the state and local roles in facilitating appropriate matches between designs and schools and in supporting designbased improvement over time. In the Fall of 1997, Congress authorized com...

In this policy brief, we discuss implications of the use of school-level reform designs for state and local policymakers. The more schools choose such reforms, the more is being learned about the importance of the state and local roles in facilitating appropriate matches between designs and schools and in supporting designbased improvement over time. In the Fall of 1997, Congress authorized com...