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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis proposes a recursive mapping of syntactic derivations to prosodic representations. I argue that the prosody of an expression, just like its meaning, is determined compositionally, as originally proposed in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)I consider three ways in which our epistemic situation might be more impoverished than we ordinarily take it to be. I argue that we can save our robust epistemic lives from the skeptic. But only if we accept that they ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation is about whether and how non-representational attitudes could play a role in our theories of rationality. In Chapter 1 ('Negation, expressivism, and intentionality') I argue that the best explanation for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Many have thought that it is impossible to rationally persuade a skeptic that we have knowledge of the external world. My dissertation aims to show that this can be done. In chapter one I consider a common reason for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation proposes that the constraint component of OT grammars should be expanded to include a family of faithfulness constraints that evaluate input-output/output-output mappings for the preservation of gross Fo ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Repetition is avoided in countless human languages and at a variety of grammatical levels. In this dissertation I ask what it is that makes repetition so bad. I propose that at least three distinct biases against repetition ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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