Candle-Making

Candles traditionally have been more than a source of light. They are the product of an age-old craft now becoming popular again

Shopping for Leather

This year, when you\u27re doing your spring shopping, you\u27ll find there are many new items made of leather. There will be long straight coats, bloused jackets, slipover shirt blouses and full, dressy top coats all in a variety of fascinating colors

An Invitation to the U. N. Tea

On Nov. 5, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., the Institution Management Tea Room will be a scene of gaiety, decorated with flags and souvenirs from foreign countries for the United Nations Tea. Women students from 20 countries besides the United States will be honored at that time by the rest of the Iowa State women

AHEA goes to Minneapolis

In the 1955 convention of the American Home Economics Association, to be next summer in Minneapolis, Minn., college clubs will take a prominent part

From Campus to Career Clothes

When you buy your college clothes, do you think ahead to what you\u27ll be doing in one, two or three years

Person-based Prominence in Ojibwe

This dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as first and second (the local persons) are privileged by the grammar. The thesis takes on three questions: (i) What are the possible categories related to person? (ii) What are the possible prominence relationships between these categories? And (iii) how is prominence information used to parse and interpret linguistic input in real time? The empirical through-line is understanding obviation — a “spotlighting” system, found most prominently in the Algonquian family of languages, that splits the (ani- mate) third persons into two categories: proximate, the person who is in the spotlight, and obviative, the persons who are introduced into the discourse, but are not in the spotlight. I provide a semantics for the feature [proximate], and detail a lattice-based theory of feature composition to derive the categories related to obviation in Border Lakes Ojibwe and beyond. This leads to insights about the syntactic and semantic relationships between person, animacy-based noun classification, number, and obviation. The novel contribution to the theory of person-based prominence effects is to de- compose person features into sets of primitives. This proposal allows the stipulated entailment relationships between categories and features, as encoded in prominence hierarchies and feature geometries, to be derived from the first principles of set theory. I further motivate the account by showing that it has increased empirical coverage, and apply it to capture patterns of agreement and word order in Border Lakes Ojibwe. Finally, I present a psycholinguistic study on how obviation is used to process filler- gap dependencies in Border Lakes Ojibwe. I show that obviation, and by extension, prominence information more generally, is used immediately to predictively encode movement chains, prior to bottom-up information from voice marking about the argument structure of the clause. I argue for a modular and syntax-first model of parsing, revising the Active Filler Strategy to be guided by pressures to minimize syntactic distance and maximize the expected well-formedness of each link in the chain. These pressures compete, accounting for effects of prediction, integration, and reanalysis in long-distance dependency formation

Machine, not Miracle

Light pearly-toned grey gets the fashion vote as one of this spring\u27s most important colors- except when it\u27s automatic washer grey. You may take time and effort to plan your misty-grey spring outfit, but do you plan equally as much to get the most out of the washer in your dorm or sorority, to avoid having your white socks turn grey and your white sheets grimy-looking