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Social movements and the synecdoche problem

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

Subcortical gray matter aging and attentional control in amateur musicians and nonmusicians

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
108 adults aged 20 to 88 years were recruited, including 34 singers, 37 instrumentalists, and 37 active nonmusicians. Participants completed an auditory selective attention task and a visual inhibition task. MRI images were acquired to examine the relationship between subcortical volumes and attention in these groups.
Alexandre Sicard, Pascale Tremblay
wiley   +1 more source

Robust and early howling detection based on a sparsity measure. [PDF]

open access: yesEURASIP J Audio Speech Music Process
Mounir M, Bernardi G, van Waterschoot T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Provocative Vocatives: Slurs as Expressives

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fifty years ago, Zwicky demonstrated the slur‐neutral counterpart vocative divergence thesis (SNCVD):Slurs occur freely as vocatives. Neutral counterparts do not. In this article, I craft a novel problem for theories of slurs. The Vocatives Problem is the challenge to explain the SNCVD. I argue that there are two strong solutions.
Robin Jeshion
wiley   +1 more source

Errant Implicature

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
wiley   +1 more source

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