To a Future Where Everyone Can Walk a Dog Even if They Don't Own One

Preface Human beings have a future if they deserve to have a future!

World Scientific Review Volume-9in x 6in book Preface Human beings have a future if they deserve to have a future! Gregory J. Chaitin This book is offered with admiration and affection to Gregory J. Chaitin 1 on the occasion of his 60th birthday (25 June 2007).

Informal speech processes can be categorical in nature, even if they affect many different words.

This paper investigates the nature of reduction phenomena in informal speech. It addresses the question whether reduction processes that affect many word types, but only if they occur in connected informal speech, may be categorical in nature. The focus is on reduction of schwa in the prefixes and on word-final /t/ in Dutch past participles. More than 2000 tokens of past participles from the Er...

Universal Grammar and Chaos/Complexity Theory: Where Do They Meet And Where Do They Cross?

  Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...

Everyone is a Designer, Even Executives!

This panel includes designers, product managers, and executives from various industries. The discussion focuses on how designers can collaborate effectively with product drivers and executives within their organizations to create a design-driven strategy from concept to implementation.

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