Preaspiration is a comparatively rare phonetic feature, almost entirely confined to languages spoken in far northwestern Europe (Andersen 2002; Helgason 2002). A recent acoustic phonetic investigation into consonant gemination in Sienese Italian (e.g. Stevens & Hajek 2007), however, found that preaspiration occurred in one third of geminate /pp tt kk/ tokens. Up until that point preaspirated st...

This paper examined tendencies actually to utilize moral reasoning capabilities when making decisions, and suggested that utilization becomes especially salient in the context of variables having clear “deference to authority” implications. A “critical question” described here provided insights into the specific situations in which U (utilizer) scores from the Defining Issues Test (DIT) measure...