Accurate reconstruction of prehistoric social organization is important if we are to put together satisfactory multidisciplinary scenarios about, for example, the dispersal of human groups. Such considerations apply in the case of Indo-European and Austronesian, two large-scale language families that are thought to represent Neolithic expansions. Ancestral kinship patterns have mostly been infe...

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This study examined how motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and  length  of  residence  in  the  target language area affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills. The study attempted to account for differential pragmatic development among 50  graduate-level  Korean  students  in  relation  to  individual  factors  mentioned  above.  The  data were...

Giant volcanic eruptions have the potential to overturn civilizations. Yet, driving mechanism and timescale over which batholithic magma reservoirs transition from non-eruptible crystal mush mobile melt-dominated stages our capacity detect a pending super-eruption remain obscure. Here we show, using Sr isotope zonation in plagioclase crystals three Andean large-magnitude (Atana, Toconao, Tara i...