Qu'est-ce que tu voulais dire? The preceding phrase, meaning What did you mean/want
to say?, is a hallmark example of the current Parisian sound change. While standard
pronunciation of the imperfect verb form voulais is ...
This thesis examines the interactions between Latin and Eastern Christians in the period
between the calling of the First Crusade in 1095 and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 through Latin chronicles and ...
In 2013, the number of charter schools in the United States topped 6,000, with enrollment exceeding more than 2.3 million students. Charters, which are privately run but publicly funded schools of choice, were founded with ...
This paper uses an econometric model to quantify the relationship between appearing on The Colbert Report and increases in political campaign donations. Using a fixed effects approach on a data set of 64 political candidates ...
Disfluencies, parts of conversation which do not seem to add to the main content
of the dialogue, have been studied in vastly different ways in the past few decades. This
thesis investigates the occurrence of disfluencies ...
This paper explores the phenomenon known as 'quantitative metathesis' in Ancient
Greek. Historically this change, an apparent metathesis of vowel length, has been
considered to be true metathesis by classicists, but ...
Using numerical simulation, we measured the performance of several potential
quantum algorithms, based on quantum random walks, to solve Boolean
satisfiability (SAT) problems. We develop the fundamentals of quantum ...
In this paper I examine the political songs of Chilean poet and ethnomusicologist Violeta Parra. I propose that, throughout her career, Parra develops a mode of narration that is explicitly feminine. Over time, this narration ...