This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional ...

Quasi-stationary distributions have been used to model the long-term behaviour of stochastic systems which in some sense terminate, but appear to be stationary over any reasonable time scale. Imagine population is observed to be extant at some time t. What is the chance of there being precisely i individuals present? If we were equipped with the full set of state probabilities, we would evaluat...

We implemented two survey-experiments to test the impact of conspiracy rhetoric on views US residents about consequences climate change and support for direct carbon capture. The first study focused how receptive respondents were a scientific report impacts when they also presented with conspiracy-based criticism report’s conclusions. second explored criticizing recommending consideration captu...

Re-exposure to the context that information was learned in facilitates its memory retrieval. However, influence of changes on ability learn new is less well understood, which present work investigated two experiments with healthy participants (n = 40 per experiment; 20 female). In experiment 1, a list word-pairs (A-B) morning, after their for immediately tested. evening, they and were tested se...

this paper examines the effect of systematic risk on accounting conservatism. the idea is that in firms with higher systematic risk, managers have higher incentives to delay the recognition of bad news in the hope of future good news. they also face less demand for conservatism from investors and auditors. in this paper, for measuring systematic risk and accounting conservatism, we used beta fr...

This paper presents axioms for systems of conditional preferences and provides representation results for these systems. It reports on a new way of representing a system of conditional preferences, by means of a system of conditional lexicographic probabilities (SCLP) (cf. Asheim and Perea, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming). An SCLP ensures well-defined conditional beliefs representing ...

This study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in EFL classes. Informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. Conversation analytic proc...