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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)Numerous philosophical problems, otherwise quite different in character, are of the following form. Certain claims which seem not only obviously true, but even constitutive of the meanings of the expressions employed, can ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)My dissertation investigates two questions from within a partial belief framework: First, when and how should deference to experts or other information sources be qualified? Second, how closely is epistemology related to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation consists of three chapters exploring the nature of normativity in ethics and epistemology, with an emphasis on insights that can be gleaned by comparing and contrasting debates within those two fields. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The two main arguments in this dissertation are 1. That laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions are restrictions on the perceptual strength of contrasts between roots, as opposed to restrictions on laryngeal configurations ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The aim of this dissertation is to elaborate and assess the Relational View of perceptual experience, and to compare it to its main rival, the Representational View. Roughly stated, the core claim of the Relational View ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This dissertation is about person features, their representation and interpretation in natural language. I will argue that there are several ways in which person features can be represented and interpreted. Most importantly, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This thesis investigates place feature restrictions in oral and nasal stop consonants with a special focus on the asymmetrical behavior of coronal and noncoronal stops. Two conflicting patterns of place restriction in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This dissertation concerns both phonetic and phonological aspects of tone mapping in various Chinese languages. The central issue addressed is the role of contrast and positional prominence and neutralization in the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Only very few phonological processes are reported to be conditioned by stress. There are two major patterns of stress-sensitive processes: segments are lengthened under stress, and vowels become louder. Two other phonological ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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