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palatalisation of / k / before front vowels happens all over the place : russian , greek , turkish , persian etc .
sinhala , one of the languages spoken in sri lanka has a four way deixis system .
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all the same methods of analysis that are used with spoken languages apply successfully to signed languages .
one idea that 's been going around at least since the 80s is that you can distinguish between holds and moves .
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newspeak , a " deliberately impoverished " language designed to prevent people from communicating and thinking about subversive ideas .
every language is permeated by the cultural values in which it is immersed .
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in russian , for example , animacy is not clear-cut in the distinction animate / inanimate .
as in russian , polish marks animate masculine nouns by having a genitive-accusative vs. the nominative-accusative of inanimate masculines .
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as you can see from this map on the wals.info site , there are many .
this is an example i always find is helpful for first year .
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zipf ’ s law , as i understand it , is not really about languages , but about statistics and probability .
as with all natural laws , zipf 's law is an approximation .
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a part of the question thusfar unattended is whether the concept of phoneme has always been contentious .
" phoneme " is a theoretical construct which probably can 't go away .
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if you arecomming from the non-linguistics environment , the best book is to start with is fromkin , introduction to language .
this is what they recommend at oxford as introductory textbooks to students starting a masters ' in linguistics .
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from what i 'm seeing it 's generally accepted that most english speakers have a vocabulary size of 15000 to 20000 words .
according to a statistical estimation i know roughly 7000 words in english .
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a tent may give you slightly more protection than sleeping out in the open , but not much .
no , a tent will not give you any protection from bears that want what 's inside .
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a few points to add here : coyotes are not know to be aggressive towards humans .
in general they are not considered dangerous because they rarely attack humans .
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nylon dries fast , is resistant to ripping and tearing , and fairly breathable .
nylon , among other synthetics , is an ideal material for clothing for most outdoor pursuits for several reasons .
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gps ( wikipedia ) is based on orbiting satellites and so is accurate worldwide .
gps systems can , and do , work everywhere you can get satellites .
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different parts of california have different wildlife , so you should probably narrow the region .
american black bears they are somewhat common in some wilderness areas of california , mostly in the mountains .
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so it 's important to have a basic understanding before you even get on skis .
skiing is a sport where taking lessons pays off very quickly .
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in a gym , the toprope will be wrapped over a cylindrical bar .
alright , there are several different issues here that we must be sure to address .
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i visit az every summer and include some hikes in the desert when i 'm there .
apart from what has been said , your need of water also depends on what you eat .
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a wonderful woman i know has the habenera bag by rei ( link ) .
if you can settle on purple nunatak and feather friends have good sleeping bags in those colors .
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an embolism in a medical context refers to any large moving mass or defect in the blood stream .
here is an interesting article on wikipedia to give overview of pressure related injuries .
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it would be unusual for a snake to attack a stationary person .
i 'm no herpetologist , but in my experience , snakes are in the " you don 't bug me , i won 't bug you " category .
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as i wrote above , it 's hard to rate this wall .
unlike others , i think the route is pretty well described .
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once you open it up to toxins , the answer is clearly no , boiling is not enough .
boiling eliminates only a certain class of contaminants that can make you ill .
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different parts of california have different wildlife , so you should probably narrow the region .
you can get a rough estimate from using an online calorie estimation website .
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if you wear a bear bell on your backpack , your fellow hikers will kill you for being annoying .
the above advice is quite good , just wanted to add on thing to consider regarding food in bear country .
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oh friend , i have been down this miserable road just like you .
yes , it is accepted practice to wash new semi-static rope ( or single rope technique / srt rope as it is known by cavers ) .
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my opinion is to wait for the child to ask for it .
my opinion is to wait until the child itself expresses a desire for this .
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you are safe to use the bottles as long as they have been properly sterilised .
i would say it 's completely safe so long as the bottles have been adequately rinsed to remove any detergent residue .
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he is taking the diaper off because he is uncomfortable .
you can try putting the diaper on backwards which may only work for a little while .
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i would recommend asking questions in a way that doesn 't require a yes or no answer .
would you be concerned with the mind changing if he wasn 't shouting and / or misbehaving ?
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yes , twins can develop their own language , but it 's not a given .
here 's what i saw with my fraternal twins : while learning to speak , all children develop some of their own dialect .
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whatever you do , don 't bite him back to show him that it hurts .
we always lightly bopped our kids on the mouth , therefore showing him that his mouth is what hurt you .
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a rule of thumb that i 've heard is " for small children , big dogs " .
any breed of dog can be perfectly safe or extremely dangerous .
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i know of no firm evidence indicating that baby talk is either helpful or detrimental in language development .
baby talk , when used correctly is beneficial to speech development .
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a possibility is to have a family meeting with the stated goal of working out the reward ( s ) for chores .
many children , instead of being motivated by reward are motivated by being in control .
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the point is to get the air out that the infant sucks into the stomach while feeding .
i 've found with my baby that it 's more accurate to go by his behavior than by " rules " .
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you should have a consultation route with the school head which can lead to direct consultation with a health professional .
it is always difficult when parents refuse to see what seems obvious to a teacher .
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you will be hard pressed to find scientific studies that answer these questions with any certainty .
the topics you mention are very broad and not closely related in the scientific world .
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although cheese is very healthy and also good during pregnancy , some types might contain listeria , which can cause serious problems .
as was mentioned , the problem with cheese is the potential for listeria .
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both of our children slept in a portable pen for at least their first year , and there were no problems .
yours looks like the one we used for my kids ( same brand and everything ) .
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i have never read anything that said teethers were bad--where did you read that ?
we used a clean cloth or baby sock wrapped around an ice cube with our kids and grandkids .
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i 'm facing a similar situation ; being danish and living in ( german-speaking ) austria .
an alternative would be to expose her solely or additionally to hindi in daycare .
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my son didn 't become potty trained until about his 4th birthday .
here are some things that worked with my son who started toilet training around 2.5 years .
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show her how much fun splashing is - that 's what we did , and made a game of it .
you can put her toys near her or give he toys to her .
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our daughter has always loved her bath , but coming out ... not so much .
my wife and i originally had the same problem with our newborn twins fussing when bath time was over .
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playing doctor is something all kids want to try at some point .
i have been in a simular situation with my daughter and a female friend when they were 5 and 4 .
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most doctors do recommend rice cereal as the first food , as there is almost no worry of allergic reaction .
eating off a spoon has to be an unusual experience for them .
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most of the literature i can find about infant sleeping has to do primarily with waking habits , not eating habits .
in my experience , babies tend to wake up by themselves when they get hungry .
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here is my advice based on my personal experience pumping breastmilk for twin boys for a full year .
i understand that the first 3 days are the most important , so much so it is vital you do it then .
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it is possible , but it will have to be a docile female betta and a bigish tank .
we tried putting a male betta in a community tank once .
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turtles love eating goldfish and lots of things that fit into their mouths .
first , the turtles are eating the fish because fish are food , not friends .
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given that the amount of shedding is normal , i don 't think there 's anything you can do to lessen it .
to reduce the amount of fur a cat malts over your furniture and clothes you could try a deshedder brush .
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my experience with danios has that they always have been " bossy " fish .
breed zebra danios are extremely hardy fish , they are almost difficult to kill .
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i have seen cats not like using the litterbox for a variety of reasons .
i think keltari has some good ideas .... a cat can change its " taste " in litter material .
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cats ( and all animals in general ) do not understand the concepts of order or tidiness .
they don 't intend to leave those items around the house or untidy the house .
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it does sound like your cat is upset about something , and trying to communicate it to you .
something is bothering your cat and he does not like it .
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i have noticed most cats don 't lick people a great deal .
cats may or may not lick a person based on all kinds of things .
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how could be you so sure that the fish died a natural death .
in my 200 l fresh water tank , which is an aggressive tank , fish occasionally get harassed to death .
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first , double-check the dog 's body language to make sure that it is truly aggressive .
first , you should realize that this is not you or your dog 's problem .
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the appropriate ph level of the water does vary a bit by fish , but too acidic can definitely kill them .
the info you 've been given in the previous answers is good .
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my guess is that means your cat only marginally likes the food you 're feeding him .
some researchers believe domestic cats never really mentally grow up completely and they always look at you like their mom .
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cover the entrance to the doorway with a old carpet and use a staple guns to secure it .
i started to dig into this because you caught my curiosity itch with the question ...
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try switching to rats ; weanling rats if you need something smaller .
as mentioned in previous answers , rats and gerbils can be offered instead of mice or in a rotation with mice .
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you should take this animal to a vet right away .
as covered in the other answers , your only option is to see a vet in order to have surgery done .
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the main cause of the allergies is proteins in the saliva .
allergies to animals , particularly furry ones , can be across the board rather than species specific .
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there are a few things to help your bun gain a bit of weight .
john cavan has some reasonable and appropriate methods for increasing a rabbits weight in his answer .
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stocking is very subjective to the specific inhabitants as well as the setup and your aquarium experience .
you 'll always want to add fish into a tank slowly .
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the best approach is play with your cat each night in the evening before bedtime .
a trick i did was to grab and hold my cats close if they disturbed me during the night .
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i don 't have direct experience with bettas , but i 've never heard that pairs will work long-term in any male / female combination .
bettas are highly territorial and no matter what sexes you keep together they will fight .
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we always put it crushed up in a bit of butter or on a sardine .
we had a cat that required daily medication , and it was a struggle to give the cat a pill .
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the biggest reason i can think of is that you 're taking away a defence mechanism for the cat .
cats don 't usually like to have their paws held , touched , or anything like that .
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breed zebra danios are extremely hardy fish , they are almost difficult to kill .
supposedly danios need to school which mean you need at least 5-8 danios in your tank .
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clean the urinated zone with vinegar ( i used to do that when my feline daughter was a baby kitten ) .
others have made some good suggestions about how to neutralize the odors in the area .
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aristotle didn 't put the world at the center of the universe per se .
why did aristotle place the earth at the centre of an infinite universe ?
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i don 't think that positivism is a position of mostly leftist philosophers .
i am not convinced that positivism is routinely asociated to a leftist ideology .
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well for one a being could have a non-physical existance and yet not even be in your mind .
the difference is huge , as not all non-physical things exist in minds .
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people who are good at the philosophy of mathematics are mathematicians and not philosophers .
my motivation is that i like to look at things from their roots and go up .
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the difference between " necessary " and " sufficient " is the direction of the logical arrow .
sufficient is an upper bound , necessary is a lower bound .
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i have no idea why it is voted up , but rex kerr 's answer begs the question .
it 's a tautology , but the mapping between logic and the english-language description is wrong .
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it 's true that , under one understanding of " accessibility " and " determining " , your accessibility relation is determined by your axioms .
accessibility is determined by the axioms of the modal logic you 're working within .
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i once met a physicists who held the strong ai position .
although i believe searle is mistaken , i don 't think you have found the problem .
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if a statement is not provable an inconsistency or self-contradiction may or will develop that invalidates the system .
should arrival at this point be the focus for examination of any system ?
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the question is ( from hinduism ) ; do you exist because of pregnancy ?
the least that can be said is that we must be born with the ability and ' knowledge ' to learn .
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i think that for an understanding wittgenstein 's " solution " , you must take in account the original ( historical ) context .
wittgenstein is alluding to how russell himself solved the paradox - the theory of ramified types .
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forget for a moment that you ever learned anything about so-called " complex " or " imaginary " numbers .
as others have already mentioned , numbers are of course abstractions .
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the question of time is an incredibly difficult one , which has been treated of philosophers from aristotle to heidegger .
wikipedia , as much as it is a supposedly self correcting medium , is not necessarily a definitive account of anything .
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not all negative claims can be validly reformulated into positive claims .
i don 't think the burden of proof is on positive or negative versions .
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as i understand it , nothing that can be changed , or broken down into smaller parts is inherently real .
our interactions are merely depends on where we put our perception .
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i can imagine a scenario where a single all powerful god create the universe that we know of .
it is the same idea as what aristotle called the unmoved mover .
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when i needed a travel tripod , i also opted for a trekpod .
an alternative tripod that may serve your needs is the trekpod .
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fast picture viewer has an extensive pack for the low price of $ 9.99 and it appears to cover them all .
fast picture viewer is $ 9.99 and works just fine on 64-bit windows 7 ( i 'm using it myself ) .
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there are many compact cameras with underwater housings available from canon and olympus .
there are waterproof compacts that go to 10 meters , such as some of the olympus tough models .
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apart from aperture and focal length , depth of field also decreases with camera-subject distance .
the wider your aperture , the smaller your focal depth will be .
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when printed on a lens the f-stop is usually expressed as a ratio with a colon ( i.e .
it refers to the maximum f-stop ( which is defined as the ratio of focal length to effective aperture diameter ) .
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you need to be embedding a color profile in you image , as also using a browser that supports color management .
in my experience , when the final production will be in srgb , use that color profile from start to finish .
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i have a few nikon lenses , and a sigma 10-20mm for super-wide shots .
if your interest is primarily the optics , you need to look at individual lenses , not brands as a whole .
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i have found there is no single best way to increase size .
there are a very wide variety of solutions for resizing and sharpening images for use on the web .
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i 've used paint shop pro and dxo optics pro on windows .
in linux i use bibble , which is has some warts but which is the only serious option afaict .
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a class 6 card in theory should be more than enough bandwidth for hd ( 1080 ) video for the 550d ( 48 mbit ) .
some cards are too slow to accept an hd stream , so you need one that is fast enough .
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here are many samples : pbase.com out of the 16k photos there , i 'm sure some are with a d700 .
it 's a 1 : 1 lens , so that means that the size of the subject will be the same size on the sensor .
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same here , i 've the 50mm f / 1.4 , and as my fastest lens i couldn 't live without it for concerts and low-light photography .
i have the 18-55 , 50 / 1.8 and 50 / 1.4 as well as the 20d - superseded by a 50d .
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