0. Introduction In order to understand what is going on when phonology is acquired we clearly need to understand what is being acquired. We need to understand what phonology is, and what aspects of it have to be learned. have deepened our understanding of the phonological component of the human linguistic system, its interfaces with other components and the extent and nature of cross-linguistic...

This article was accepted under the editorship of David A. F. Haaga. This paper is drawn from a doctoral dissertation by the first author, entitled “Parenting and Family Support in Primary Care Settings,” which was supervised by the second author. Special thanks go to Dr. Jan Nicholson, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, who as associate supervisor provided invaluable...

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In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Sakabe et al report that the polymerase acidic (PA) protein component of the H5N1 influenza RNA-dependent RNA polymerase affects cytokine production in human macrophages and may be important in determining pathogenicity in mice [1]. They imply that PA may be relevant to the increased mortality mediated by hypercytokinemia in H5N1 infection in...

Clique sizes for chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) grooming and for human conversation are compared in order to test Robin Dunbar’s hypothesis that human language is almost three times as efficient a bonding mechanism as primate grooming. Recalculation of the data provided by Dunbar et al. (1995) reveals that the average clique size for human conversation is 2.72 whereas that of chimpanzee grooming ...