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"Labial Instability in Sound Change argues for a particular school of sound change (John Ohala's phonetic theory) while clarifying the complex relationships among speech perception, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, language typology, and sound change."
Richard McDorman, Labial Instability in Sound Change

Posted by Richard McDorman on September 2, 2010 11:53 am / 0 Comments

"Previous attempts to explain the similarities between the Indus Valley script and the rongorongo of Easter Island, which have relied on notions of cultural contact or historical derivation, have proved unfruitful.”
Richard McDorman, Universal Iconography in Writing Systems

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"At issue in Daubert was the definition of ‘scientific knowledge’ within the meaning of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the possession of which is a prerequisite for the testimony of an ‘expert.’ Since its decision in Daubert, the Supreme Court has been criticized for its ‘misguided’ attempt to demarcate science from non-science, and the clarity of the philosophy of science expressed in Daubert has been called into question."
Richard McDorman, Liberty and Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom

Posted by Richard McDorman on July 31, 2010 6:58 pm / 0 Comments

Labial Instability in Sound Change

Posted by Richard McDorman on July 24, 2010 10:06 pm / 0 Comments

The renowned historical linguist Hans Henrich Hock once commented that, for reasons that are not well understood, there sometimes appear "curious gaps" in the bilabial slot of languages' series of obstruent phonemes.

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"Although the default word order for English declarative sentences is subject-verb-object (SVO), a number of seeming exceptions exist in which the verb precedes the subject. However, at a fundamental level such constructions are not really exceptions but are rather manifestations of a deeper level of syntactic organization that requires the verb to be the second fundamental constituent in the clause."
Richard McDorman, Presenting English Grammar

Posted by Richard McDorman on April 11, 2010 4:38 pm / 0 Comments

"Simply put, the ESL syllabus must break free of the longstanding intellectual imperiousness of the standard to embrace instruction that encompasses the many Englishes that learners will encounter and thereby achieve the culturally responsive pedagogy so often advocated by leaders in the field."
Richard McDorman, Understanding African-American English

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Richard E. McDorman is certified by the American Translators Association (ATA) for translation from Spanish to English. Mr. McDorman currently resides in Miami, Florida.

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