Chapter 2: Enlarging The Perspective

Chapter 2. Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: the Linguistic Perspective

This chapter gives an overview of language variation and how the dynamics of language are explored through formal models. It briefly outlines the dimensions over which language structures can vary, then looks at some of the very different ways in which language change has been investigated (sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, evolutionary linguistics). It describes how dynamic models of c...

Another chapter in an enlarging book: repair degenerative mitral valves.

See related article on page 1350. I n this issue of the Journal, Gillinov and colleagues provide us with another valuable contribution in the field of mitral valve repair from their large experience at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation available for sophisticated and cutting-edge (ie, Eugene Blackstone) statistical analysis. The superiority of mitral valve repair over replacement in patients with...

Enlarging the Societal Pie Through Wise Legislation: A Psychological Perspective.

We offer a psychological perspective to explain the failure of governments to create near-Pareto improvements. Our tools for analyzing these failures reflect the difficulties people have trading small losses for large gains: the fixed-pie approach to negotiations, the omission bias and status quo bias, parochialism and dysfunctional competition, and the neglect of secondary effects. We examine ...

Sensation, Perception, Action – an Evolutionary Perspective Chapter 2

This picture is composed of a large array of small picture elements which differ in colour and shade – together these elements generate textures, contours, and shapes, similar to the point-by-point synthesis of a neural representation of the outside world.

Chapter 7: Perspective