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Dravidian languages generally have a five-way vowel system (i, e, a, o, u) each of them having long counterparts. However, some South Dravidian languages in the Nilgiri region have developed centralised vowels, including retracted and... more

Dravidian languages generally have a five-way vowel system (i, e, a, o, u) each of them having long counterparts. However, some South Dravidian languages in the Nilgiri region have developed centralised vowels, including retracted and fronted qualities. Although many of these languages have already been described, Muḍuga language of Attappady has developed retracted vowels which have gradually gained phonemic status but have not been described yet. This paper aims to establish the phonemic status of retracted and fronted vowels in Muḍuga supported by historical analysis and to suggest a practical orthography for the language.

Academic dishonesty and plagiarism have become hot issues in newspapers and academia. However, there are few studies of how leading journals are handling these issues. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current situation and... more

Academic dishonesty and plagiarism have become hot issues in newspapers and academia. However, there are few studies of how leading journals are handling these issues. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current situation and policies concerning academic dishonesty, plagiarism and paper retractions in academia in general, and business and economics disciplines in particular. Four databases, Ebsco Business Source Premier, Emerald, JSTOR and ScienceDirect, have been examined. This survey shows that while some science journals, e.g. medical journals, are very active in retracting papers due to the dishonesty and plagiarism, business and economics journals are not. The survey also displays that some journals have already published explicit policies regarding academic honesty; within the business field, however, only two established and one emerging journal discuss such policies. Given the extent of the problem, it seems important that more journals openly confront the situation, elaborate and publish explicit policies how to reduce the future occurrence of academic dishonesty and plagiarism.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois and Arizona State University concluded that people take hurricanes with feminine names less seriously than they do those with masculine names. The authors suggested feminine... more

A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois and Arizona State University concluded that people take hurricanes with feminine names less seriously than they do those with masculine names. The authors suggested feminine names could result in a death toll two to three times as high. These findings caught on with the media, and for good reason. Not only do they suggest many preventable deaths occur, but they find implicit sexism as the cause. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this study was carried by virtually every major news organization. It also provided easy laughs for late-night television monologues. There was only one problem: Most outside experts called the study flawed. A flurry of academic critiques ensued – what has come to be known as “post-publication review.” The errors were methodological. The authors apparently had botched their statistical analysis of historic hurricane data. To many, it seemed intentional.

The aim of this paper is to highlight some important similarities between the semantics of predicates of personal taste and the semantics of aesthetic predicates. More precisely, we will argue that aesthetic predicates can be involved, as... more

The aim of this paper is to highlight some important similarities between the semantics of predicates of personal taste and the semantics of aesthetic predicates. More precisely, we will argue that aesthetic predicates can be involved, as predicates of personal taste allegedly do, in disagreement scenarios where no party can be declared to be at fault. In order to do so, we will not focus on the most commonly used aesthetic predicate in this sort of theoretical context –‘beautiful’– since it is our contention that this adjective does not fully exhibit a very distinctive feature of aesthetic predicates: objectivity. Exploring the similarities between ‘tasty’ and ‘beautiful’ could, therefore, be insufficient to establish a meaningful connection between taste judgements and aesthetic judgments. Instead, we will pay attention to predicates such as ‘atonal’, ‘rural’, ‘political’, ‘narcotic’, ‘virtuosic’, or ‘coherent’, as they appear in actual musical reviews. These adjectives, we will argue, have a more objective component to them, and are therefore better suited to test a putative connection between the semantics of predicates of personal taste and that of aesthetic predicates. We will show that some of them exhibit the kind of features concerning truth-ascriptions, disagreement, and retraction, that motivates a special treatment for predicates of personal taste.