Theories of laryngeal realism (Honeybone 2005, Iverson & Salmons 1995, Beckman et al. 2011) argue for a tight correspondence between a segment’s phonetic cues and the (laryngeal) phonological features that represent it. Consequently, the ‘p’/‘b’ contrast in French, expressed phonetically by vocal fold vibration during the stop closure is represented by a [voice] feature whereas the ‘p’/‘b’ cont...

According to naïve realist (or primitivist) theories of colour, colours are sui generis mind-independent properties. The question that I consider in this paper is the relationship of naïve realism to what Mark Johnston calls Revelation, the thesis that the essential nature of colour is fully revealed in a standard visual experience. In the first part of the paper, I argue that if naïve realism ...

The influence of inefficient teaching methods or cross-linguistic characteristics in the field second language oral has always been concerned and discussed. By carrying a survey with 50 Grade 5 bilingual Chinese students Intel Bilingual Primary School, this paper aims to observe, identify make brief analysis on key issue effectively English young learners primary their spoken English, from pers...

Discussions of the problem of evil presuppose and appeal to axiological and metaethical assumptions, but seldom pay adequate attention to those assumptions. I argue that certain theories of value are consistent with theistic answers to the argument from evil and that several other well-known theories of value, such as hedonism, are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile with theism. Althoug...

Great Power Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. More than afty years have passed since Hans Morgenthau introduced “realism” as an approach to the study of international relations. Since then, the approach has withstood not only a steady assault from such external quarters as liberal institutionalism, the democratic peace school, and “constructivism” but also a marked divisive tendency. Splin...