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UNINA9910786603303321 |
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Thewissen J. G. M. |
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The walking whales : from land to water in eight million years / / J. G. M. Thewissen ; with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Whales, Fossil - Pakistan |
Whales, Fossil - India |
Whales - Evolution |
Paleontology - Pakistan |
Paleontology - India |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Front matter -- Contents -- 1. A Wasted Dig -- 2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur? -- 3. A Whale with Legs -- 4. Learning to Swim -- 5. When the Mountains Grew -- 6. Passage to India -- 7. A Trip to the Beach -- 8. The Otter Whale -- 9. The Ocean Is a Desert -- 10. The Skeleton Puzzle -- 11. The River Whales -- 12. Whales Conquer the World -- 13. From Embryos to Evolution -- 14. Before Whales -- 15. The Way Forward -- Notes -- Index |
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Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society. The reader senses the excitement of the digs as well as the rigors faced by scientific researchers, for whom each new insight gives rise to even |
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more questions, and for whom at times the logistics of just staying alive may trump all science. In his search for an understanding of how modern whales live their lives, Thewissen also journeys to Japan and Alaska to study whales and wild dolphins. He finds answers to his questions about fossils by studying the anatomy of otters and porpoises and examining whale embryos under the microscope. In the book's final chapter, Thewissen argues for approaching whale evolution with the most powerful tools we have and for combining all the fields of science in pursuit of knowledge. |
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UNINA9910973921703321 |
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Language description informed by theory / / edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin, Diana Guillemin |
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Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (403 p.) |
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Studies in Language Companion Series ; ; 147 |
Studies in language companion series |
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PensalfiniRob |
TurpinMyfany <1972-> |
GuilleminDiana |
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English language |
Linguistics |
Modality (Linguistics) |
Warlpiri language C15 |
Arrernte language C8 |
Jingulu language C22 |
Wambaya language C19 |
Kunwinjku language N65 |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Language Description Informed by Theory; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Editors' introduction; Rob Pensalfini1, Diana Guillemin2 & Myfany Turpin1; Editors' Introduction; 1. Language description and language theory; 2. Language descriptions informed by theory; 3. Mary Napaljarri Laughren; References; Bibliography of Mary Laughren*; Myfany Turpin1 & Diana Guillemin2; Bibliography of Mary Laughren*; 1. Publications; 1. Unpublished materials (Dissertations, Papers, Manuscripts) held in archives; 1. Warlpiri Literature (Translations by Mary Laughren) |
1. Collated collections (umbers refer to the AIATSIS accession number)1. Audio-visual publications and field recordings deposited at AIATSIS; Evaluating Bilingual Education in Warlpiri schools*; Samantha Disbray; Evaluating Bilingual Education in Warlpiri schools*; 1. Introduction; 2. Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs; 2.1 Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs: English literacy; 2.2 Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs: Wider Criteria; 3. Warlpiri Bilingual Education Program; 3.1 Teacher training and the Warlpiri professional network |
3.2 Warlpiri Literacy Production3.3 Warlpiri Dictionary Project and the Development of Warlpiri Curriculum; 4. A Final wind back?; References; part 1; Phonology; Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk*; Myfany Turpin1, Katherine Demuth2 & April Ngampart Campbell3; Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk*; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background to Arandic baby talk; 1.2 Background to Arandic languages; 1.3 Age-graded forms of Arandic baby talk; 1.4 Methodology; 1.5 Arandic phonemes; 2. Segmental processes in ABT; 2.1 Collapse of coronal distinctions in early ABT |
4.1 Shared vocabulary between WBT and ABT4.2 Source of the unique BT terms; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; References; Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel*; Erich Round; Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel*; 1. Introduction; 2. Nasals; 2.1 Nasal articulation and Acoustic cues; 2.2 The timing of velic lowering in enhancement theory; 3. Laterals; 3.1 Lateral articulation and its parallels with nasals; 3.2 Parallels between laterals and nasals with respect to enhancement; 4. A critical evaluation of claimed perceptual parallels in pre-stopping |
4.1 Prestopping of laterals is unlikely to enhance place cues |
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This chapter examines the connections between shared cultural knowledge about kinship structure and the pragmatic inferences that enable interlocutors to assess each other's (multiple) perspectives. By drawing on Bininj Gunwok conversational data this chapter shows how linguistic choices are influenced by the dynamics of social relationships, particularly by context-specific speaker goals and stance-taking that focuses on intersubjectivity. The choice of kinterm is an essential component of stance-taking. A switch in kinterm shifts the indexes of various aspects of speaker agency (e.g. effecti |
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