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Children’S Insensitivity To Information From The Target Of Agreement: The Case Of Xhosa, Sandile Gxilishe, Mantoa Rose Smouse, Thabisa Xhalisa, Jill De Villiers Jan 2009

Children’S Insensitivity To Information From The Target Of Agreement: The Case Of Xhosa, Sandile Gxilishe, Mantoa Rose Smouse, Thabisa Xhalisa, Jill De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

The paper presents an account of number agreement phenomena arguing that the target of agreement may be bleached of number information. This would explain why English-speaking children have difficulty relying on the target alone as a clue to number, despite producing it correctly. Xhosa has a very rich subject-verb agreement system and pro-drop, and there is theoretical dispute over its properties. An experiment with Xhosa-speaking children revealed that they, too, are unable to use the morpheme on the verb as a cue to subject number. It is argued that this may be further evidence that the morpheme is agreement rather …


Dwelling, Walking, Serving: Organic Preservation Along The Camino De Santiago Pilgrimage Landscape, Mercedes Chamberlain Quesada-Embid Jan 2008

Dwelling, Walking, Serving: Organic Preservation Along The Camino De Santiago Pilgrimage Landscape, Mercedes Chamberlain Quesada-Embid

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This study is an exploration of the people and the landscape of the well-known Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. Although there are many routes that make up the entirety of the pilgrimage, this research is specifically focused on the landscape of the Camino Francés, or French Route, in northern Spain. The path has been written about in many ways and for a myriad of reasons since it became affiliated with the Christian tradition in the early ninth century. This research, however, is different. By way of an environmental history and hermeneutic approach, an investigation of the interrelated and overlapping human …


Pragmatic Abilities In Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study In Philosophy And The Empirical, Jessica De Villiers, Robert Stainton, Peter Szatmari Jan 2007

Pragmatic Abilities In Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study In Philosophy And The Empirical, Jessica De Villiers, Robert Stainton, Peter Szatmari

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


“The Problem Of Science” In Nietzsche And Heidegger, Babette Babich Jan 2007

“The Problem Of Science” In Nietzsche And Heidegger, Babette Babich

Research Resources

Nietzsche and Heidegger pose important philosophical questions to science and its technological projects. The resultant contributes to what may be called a continental philosophy of science and I argue that only such a rigorously critical approach to the question of science permits a genuinely philosophical reflection on science. The resultant contributes to what may be called a continental philosophy of science and I argue that only such a rigorously critical approach to the question of science permits a genuinely philosophical reflection on science. More than a thoughtful reflection on science, however, the heart of philosophy is also at stake in …


Acquisition Of Tense In Xhosa: The Long And The Short Of It, Sandile Gxilishe, Jill De Villiers, Peter A. De Villiers Jan 2007

Acquisition Of Tense In Xhosa: The Long And The Short Of It, Sandile Gxilishe, Jill De Villiers, Peter A. De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

The purpose of the present paper it so determine when Xhosa-speaking children master the morphology of tense. Specifically, we ask when Xhosa-speaking children learn the conditions on the two forms of the Present and Recent Past tenses, namely the long and the short forms. Despite the fact that there are complex grammatical conditions on which form is appropriate in a sentence, the paper will demonstrate that young children can attend to these grammatical conditions.


Derrida’S Deconstruction Of Logocentrism: Implications For Trauma Studies, Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick Apr 2006

Derrida’S Deconstruction Of Logocentrism: Implications For Trauma Studies, Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This article examines Derrida’s conception of logocentrism as it is discussed throughout the entirety of his seminal work Of Grammatology, as well as in his collected interviews, Points...: 1974-1994. Systematically refuting logocentrism, Derrida’s deconstruction enables exposure of the mechanisms, such as binary constructions, that exert a dominant—and domineering—influence over marginalized people, places, and concepts. Specifically, presence and the (falsehood of the) totality of the sign define logocentrism, and these terms cannot productively contribute to trauma studies because it is precisely in texts and textuality that embodied states can be studied. Texts are themselves material embodiments that display …


Really Intriguing, That Pred Np!, Ileana Paul, Robert Stainton Jan 2006

Really Intriguing, That Pred Np!, Ileana Paul, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Terminological Reflections Of An Enlightened Contextualist, Robert J. Stainton Jan 2006

Terminological Reflections Of An Enlightened Contextualist, Robert J. Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Really Intriguing, That Prednp!, Ileana Paul, Robert Stainton Jan 2006

Really Intriguing, That Prednp!, Ileana Paul, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Meaning And Reference: Some Chomskian Themes, Robert Stainton Jan 2006

Meaning And Reference: Some Chomskian Themes, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Neither Fragments Nor Ellipsis, Robert Stainton Jan 2006

Neither Fragments Nor Ellipsis, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


The New Black's, Peter Tiersma Sep 2005

The New Black's, Peter Tiersma

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Non-Sentential Assertion, Robert Stainton Jan 2005

In Defense Of Non-Sentential Assertion, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

A defense of non-sentential assertion against Jason Stanley and Peter Ludlow


Metaphysics, Substitution Salva Veritate And The Slingshot Argument, Robert Stainton Jan 2005

Metaphysics, Substitution Salva Veritate And The Slingshot Argument, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

An introduction to the "slingshot" argument in philosophy of language and metaphysics


Null Complements: Licensed By Syntax Or By Semantics-Pragmatics?, Corinne Iten, M.-O. Junker, Aryn Pyke, Robert Stainton, Catherine Wearking Jan 2005

Null Complements: Licensed By Syntax Or By Semantics-Pragmatics?, Corinne Iten, M.-O. Junker, Aryn Pyke, Robert Stainton, Catherine Wearking

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Ellipsis And Non-Sentential Speech, Ray Elugardo, Robert Stainton Jan 2005

Introduction To Ellipsis And Non-Sentential Speech, Ray Elugardo, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Grice, Herbert Paul (1913-88), Robert Stainton Jan 2005

Grice, Herbert Paul (1913-88), Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Lacan To The Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely, By Bruce Fink, 2004, Hervé Regnauld Jan 2005

Review Of Lacan To The Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely, By Bruce Fink, 2004, Hervé Regnauld

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.


Spivak After Marx After Derrida, Philip Leonard Jan 2005

Spivak After Marx After Derrida, Philip Leonard

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Spivak is often viewed as an unequivocally deconstructive theorist, and she frequently reinforces this impression by proclaiming her allegiance to Derrida's ideas. Recent comments by her suggest, however, that there are limits to her deconstructive convictions. This essay considers some of Spivak's debts to Derrida's work, though it is primarily concerned with those occasions when she states her misgivings about his ability to understand postcoloniality, global power, and resistance movements. Reading Marx more accurately would, she insists, have allowed Derrida both to grasp capitalism's complex logic and to consider the effects of subaltern interventions upon capitalism's global authority. Such an …


Getting Complements On Your Mental State (Verbs), Jill De Villiers Jan 2004

Getting Complements On Your Mental State (Verbs), Jill De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

There is a considerable body of theoretical and experimental work on how children develop a Theory of Mind. A recent meta-analysis by Wellman, Cross and Watson (2001) has revealed a consensus that children develop an awareness that other people might have false beliefs around the age of four years, give or take six months. Wellman and some other theorists believe that children undergo a conceptual change at this point, from a psychological theory based primarily on desire as the motivator of human action, to one that accords beliefs a causal role. Other theorists such as Leslie (1991; 1994) contend that …


Speaker Meaning And Davidson On Metaphor, Robert Stainton Jan 2003

Speaker Meaning And Davidson On Metaphor, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


The Subject, Étienne Balibar, Roland K. Végső Jan 2003

The Subject, Étienne Balibar, Roland K. Végső

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This selection is a partial translation of the entry “Subject,” written by Etienne Balibar for the Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies, directed by Barbara Cassin and forthcoming from Éditions du Seuil and Le Robert.


"Obviously Propositions Are Nothing": Russell And The Logical Form Of Belief Reports, Lenny Clapp, Robert Stainton Jan 2002

"Obviously Propositions Are Nothing": Russell And The Logical Form Of Belief Reports, Lenny Clapp, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Varieties Of Empiricism, David Matheson, Robert Stainton Jan 2002

Varieties Of Empiricism, David Matheson, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

We argue that a sufficiently strong Empiricism calls into question key Quinean doctrines about analyticity and the indeterminacy of translation. This critique of Quine, the arch-Empiricist of the 20th Century, has a paradoxical air about it: under one construal, it looks as though we are using Empiricism to undermine itself. We explain away the air of paradox by highlighting quite distinct facets of traditional Empiricism. Ultimately, we suggest, the combination of an epistemological variety of Empiricism and a doxastic variety of Rationalism might in fact be the most defensible position - depending on how the empirical chips fall.


Communicative Events As Evidence In Linguistics, Robert Stainton Jan 2001

Communicative Events As Evidence In Linguistics, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Continuity And Modularity In Language Acquisition And Research, Jill De Villiers Jan 2001

Continuity And Modularity In Language Acquisition And Research, Jill De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Objects And Senses And Substitutions, Robert Stainton Jan 2000

Objects And Senses And Substitutions, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Holisme Et Homophonie, Madeleine Arseneault, Robert Stainton Jan 2000

Holisme Et Homophonie, Madeleine Arseneault, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


From Evidence To Belief: Developmental Precursors For False Belief Ascriptions, Jill De Villiers, Angelika Kratzer, Tom Roeper Jan 2000

From Evidence To Belief: Developmental Precursors For False Belief Ascriptions, Jill De Villiers, Angelika Kratzer, Tom Roeper

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

Recently, a fruitful line of inquiry has linked children’s acquisition of the language of the mind to their developing understanding of other minds. In particular, a cascade of linguistic effects regarding sentences embedded under mental verbs has been shown to occur around the age of four years for the average child, roughly the age when children start passing standard false belief tests. This set of linguistic effects is summarized briefly below. In the proposed study, we will turn our attention to possible precursors for the ability to ascribe a false belief to another person. These precursors include knowledge about how …


Robust Belief States And The Right/Wrong Dichotomy, Robert Stainton Jan 1999

Robust Belief States And The Right/Wrong Dichotomy, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.