Mending walls

Mending Mendelism

Mending Minds

Mending Minds. By Paul Winterton. Peter Davies, 1938, 8/6. This book is the result of an investigation undertaken on behalf of one of our great daily newspapers into the conditions obtaining in the Public Mental Hospitals of England and Wales and the subject of mental disease and its treatment in general. Whatever was the original intention of the investigation, the book actually constitutes pe...

Mending Minds

Mending the Methodological Mistakes

Preparation of this chapter was supported by National Science Foundation Grant no. 1024293 and a grant from the Brady Education Foundation awarded to ASL, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to EDS. Play is too often in the American crosshairs, with those who claim it is a waste of time on the one hand and those who claim it is crucially important to developme...

Mending your Ps & Qs

0. Introduction Phonological representations include sequences of featural specifications, pq. Two properties can be observed about such sequences: (i) for a sequence pq to be of significance for the phonology of a language, p must be perceptibly different than q; (ii) to produce a sequence pq, the articulators must start in the configuration for p and then change into the configuration for q. ...