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Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems

ABSTRACT With the systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory, there is renewed and broadened emphasis on the inclusion of all affected by a political decision in the making of those decisions. The key enabler of inclusion at a system level is transmission: theoretically, a deliberative system is more democratic if it can foster the transmission of claims and ideas across...

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The metrical basis for children’s subjectless sentences

Young English speakers often omit sentential subjects but infrequently omit objects. In this paper I consider five accounts for these omissions that differ in the explanation of why children make omissions (grammar versus production constraints) and what causes the asymmetry in subject and object omissions.Hyams, 1986[1], Hyams, 1987[2], Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, October) proposes...

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Millais – Press Release

Millais: Press related to past exhibition. Tate Britain  Linbury Galleries 26 September 2007 – 13 January 2008 John Everett Millais (1829–1896) was the greatest painter of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Perhaps best known for his iconic painting Ophelia 1851–52 (Tate), Millais was the most successful painter in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century with a reputation across Europe and...

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