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  • Causation in metaphysics and moral theory 
    McGrath, Sarah, 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Chapter 1: The causal relata. Ordinary talk suggests that entities from different ontological categories can cause and be caused: Kathy's throw, the fact that Kathy threw, and Kathy herself can all cause the window to ...
  • Chains and anaphoric dependence : on reconstruction and its implications 
    Barss, Andrew (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
  • Chance, indeterminacy, and explanation 
    Emery, Nina R. (Nina Rebecca) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis is about the philosophical and scientific significance of chance. Specifically, I ask whether there is a single notion of chance that both plays a well-defined scientific role and proves useful for various ...
  • Classical and connectionist models of cognition 
    Lormand, Eric Paul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
  • Clause chaining, switch reference and coordination 
    Nonato, Rafael (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    In this thesis I ponder over a constellation of phenomena that revolve around switch reference and coordination, drawing mainly on their instantiation in Kisedje (Je, Brazil). I start by investigating Klsedje's case system. ...
  • Clitics and agreement 
    Roberts, Taylor, 1967- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
  • Communicative efficiency in the lexicon 
    Graff, Peter Nepomuk Herwig Maria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    In this dissertation, I argue that a variety of probabilistic patterns in natural language phonology derive from communicative efficiency. I present evidence from phonetically transcribed dictionaries of 60 languages from ...
  • Comparative quantifiers 
    Hackl, Martin, 1968- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
  • Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity : 
    Coon, Jessica (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    The central claim of this dissertation is that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, I argue that the contexts in which we ...
  • Complementation in Moroccan Arabic 
    Wager, Janet Stephanie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
  • Composing questions 
    Kotek, Hadas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    This dissertation motivates a new syntax and semantics for simplex and multiple wh-questions, concentrating on English and German data. The proposed theory combines Cable's (2007; 2010) Q-based syntax for wh-movement and ...
  • Compression effects, perceptual asymmetries, and the grammar of timing 
    Katz, Jonah (Jonah Isaac) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    This dissertation reports the results of two English experiments on timing and perception. The first experiment demonstrates asymmetries in timing between consonants and vowels, which depend on the manner of the consonant. ...
  • The computation of prosody 
    Idsardi, William James (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
  • Conditions on (dis)harmony 
    Nevins, Andrew (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    (cont.) Chapter 4 turns to microvariation within the (dis)harmony system of a single language, examining transparency variation in Hungarian front vowels, and distance-based variation in Hungarian neutral vowel sequences, ...
  • Conditions on x-̊movement 
    Li, Yafei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
  • Consciousness and intentionality 
    John, James R., 1975- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    (cont.) having perceptual experiences, subjects can be--and usually are--directly aware of material objects.
  • Consciousness, content, and cognitive architecture 
    Antony, Michael Verne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
  • Consistency in choice and credence 
    Hedden, Brian (Brian Robert) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis concerns epistemic and practical rationality. That is, it is about what to believe and what to do. In Chapter 1, 1 argue that theories of practical rationality should be understood as evaluating decisions as ...
  • Consonant cluster phonotactics : a perceptual approach 
    Côté, Marie-Hélène, 1966- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
  • Constraining credences 
    Moss, Sarah (Sarah E.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    This dissertation is about ways in which our rational credences are constrained: by norms governing our opinions about counterfactuals, by the opinions of other agents, and by our own previous opinions. In Chapter 1, I ...
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