In spite of the ease of computation of Cronbach Coefficient Alpha, its misconceptions and mis-applications are still widespread, such as the confusion of consistency and dimensionality, as well as the confusion of raw Alpha and standardized Alpha. To clarify these misconceptions, this paper will illustrate the computation of Cronbach Coefficient Alpha in a step-by-step manner, and also explain ...

Focus particles interact with the focused constituent in a sentence. The particle only presents a challenge to formalizing this relationship as while it commonly precedes the focused constituent, only can also follow it. A syntactic account of these constructions is presented that captures the unique properties of only’s distribution within the framework presented in Kayne (1998) and offers sup...