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Mid Cretaceous fossil forests of Alexander Island, Antarctica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Spectacular fossil trees and shrubs are preserved within fossil soils in their original growth positions in mid Cretaceous rocks on Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
Howe, Jodie
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Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
It is well-attested that native speakers tend to give low acceptability ratings to sentences that involve movement from within islands, yet the source of island effects remains an active debate.
Alison Gabriele   +4 more
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Mandarin Chinese wh-in-situ argument–adjunct asymmetry in island sensitivity: Evidence from a formal judgment study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Unlike adjunct wh’s-in-situ, argument wh’s-in-situ do not seem to be subject to island constraints in Chinese and other East Asian languages. This difference in island sensitivity between argument and adjunct wh’s-in-situ is known as argument–adjunct ...
Qilin Tian   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regional service delivery among Pacific Island countries: an assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Experience with pooling service delivery among Pacific Island countries has not met the optimistic expectations of advocates, finds this study. Abstract Pacific Island countries face a range of development challenges, including smallness, distance from
Dornan, Matthew   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Islands and non-islands in native and heritage Korean

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
To a large extent, island phenomena are cross-linguistically invariable, but English and Korean present some striking differences in this domain. English has wh-movement and Korean does not, and while both languages show sensitivity to wh-islands, only ...
Boyoung eKim, Grant eGoodall
doaj   +1 more source

Processing Relative Clause Extractions in Swedish

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Relative clauses are considered strong islands for extraction across languages. Swedish comprises a well-known exception, allegedly allowing extraction from relative clauses (RCE), raising the possibility that island constraints may be subject to “deep ...
Damon Tutunjian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Islands in the stream of Hawking radiation

open access: yesJournal of High Energy Physics, 2021
We consider the island formula for the entropy of subsets of the Hawking radiation in the adiabatic limit where the black hole evaporation is very slow. We find a simple concrete ‘on-shell’ formula for the generalized entropy which involves the image of ...
Timothy J. Hollowood   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subtle implicit language facts emerge from the functions of constructions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Much has been written about the unlikelihood of innate, syntax-specific, universal knowledge of language (Universal Grammar) on the grounds that it is biologically implausible, unresponsive to cross-linguistic facts, theoretically inelegant, and ...
Adele Eva Goldberg
doaj   +1 more source

Steady-state Operation Area of VSC-HVDC Converter Station Connecting Renewable Energy Cluster by Isolated Network [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
When the large-scale renewable power island is connected to VSC-HVDC transmission system, we should figure out the steady-state operation area of VSC-HVDC converter station. Based on the equivalent model of renewable energy island, the constraints of VSC-
Xian Wenyuan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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