Final Report to Governors from the Joint Study Committee and Scientific Professionals

The intent of this publication of the Arkansas Water Resources Center is to provide a location whereby a final report on water research to a funding entity can be archived. The States of Arkansas and Oklahoma signed the Second Statement of Joint Principles and Actions in 2013 to form a governors’ appointed ‘Joint Study Committee’ to oversee the ‘Joint Study’ and make recommendations on the phosphorus criteria in Oklahoma’s Scenic Rivers. This publication has maintained the original format of the report as submitted to the Governors of Arkansas and Oklahoma

Oklahoma Environmental Agencies Roundtable

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Bar Association\u27s Environmental Law Section, The University of Tulsa College of Law Sustainable Energy & Resources Law Program, and the Master of Jurisprudence in Energy and Indian Law Programs. Speakers include: Jason Aamodt (JD \u2796) Assistant Dean of Online Legal Education The University of Tulsa College of Law Jeri Fleming Environmental Programs Manager Oklahoma Conservation Commission Mark Derichsweiler Engineering Manager Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Ed Fite Director Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission Sara Gibson Assistant General Counsel Oklahoma Water Resources Board Teena Gunter General Counsel Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food & Forestry David Leavitt Deputy Administrative Law Judge Oklahoma Corporation Commission Shanon Phillips Water Quality Director Oklahoma Conservation Commission Mark Secrest Chief Counsel Oklahoma Department of Mines Darrell Townsend Assistant General Manager Grand River Dam Authorit

Oklahoma Environmental Agencies Roundtable

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Bar Association\u27s Environmental Law Section, The University of Tulsa College of Law Sustainable Energy & Resources Law Program, and the Master of Jurisprudence in Energy and Indian Law Programs. Speakers include: Jason Aamodt (JD \u2796) Assistant Dean of Online Legal Education The University of Tulsa College of Law Jeri Fleming Environmental Programs Manager Oklahoma Conservation Commission Mark Derichsweiler Engineering Manager Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Ed Fite Director Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission Sara Gibson Assistant General Counsel Oklahoma Water Resources Board Teena Gunter General Counsel Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food & Forestry David Leavitt Deputy Administrative Law Judge Oklahoma Corporation Commission Shanon Phillips Water Quality Director Oklahoma Conservation Commission Mark Secrest Chief Counsel Oklahoma Department of Mines Darrell Townsend Assistant General Manager Grand River Dam Authorit

Relating (Un)acceptability to Interpretation. Experimental Investigations on Negation

Although contemporary linguistic studies routinely use unacceptable sentences to determine the boundary of what falls outside the scope of grammar, investigations far more rarely take into consideration the possible interpretations of such sentences, perhaps because these interpretations are commonly prejudged as irrelevant or unreliable across speakers. In this paper we provide the results of two experiments in which participants had to make parallel acceptability and interpretation judgments of sentences presenting various types of negative dependencies in Basque and in two varieties of Spanish (Castilian Spanish and Basque Country Spanish). Our results show that acceptable sentences are uniformly assigned a single negation reading in the two languages. However, while unacceptable sentences consistently convey single negation in Basque, they are interpreted at chance in both varieties of Spanish. These results confirm that judgment data that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable negative utterances can inform us not only about an adult’s grammar of his/her particular language but also about interesting cross-linguistic differences. We conclude that the acceptability and interpretation of (un)grammatical negative sentences can serve linguistic theory construction by helping to disentangle basic assumptions about the nature of various negative dependencies