Daniel Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3502-3742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Surviving the Islamic State
Seeing Is Disbelieving
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, and when is it not? Seeing is Disbelieving examines the appeal and limits of dangerous misinformation in war, and is the go-to text for understanding false beliefs and their impact in modern armed conflict. Daniel Silverman extends the burgeoning study of factual misinformation, conspiracy theories,…
Friends in the Profession
What drives foreign state support for rebel organizations? While scholars have examined the geopolitical and organizational factors that fuel foreign support, the role of rebel leaders in this process remains understudied. In this article, we propose that rebel leaders’ personal backgrounds shape their ability to obtain foreign support during conflict. In particular, we argue that rebel leaders with significant prior international experiences—inc…
Seeing Is Disbelieving
Misinformation, lies, and fake news are pervasive in war. But when are they actually believed by the people who live in war zones, and when are they not? This question is key, as their spread can spark greater violence and spoil efforts to make peace. In this study, we advance a new argument about lies in war. Building on existing research that links people's factual beliefs in conflict to their psychological and informational biases, we argue th…
Too Late to Apologize? Collateral Damage, Post-Harm Compensation, and Insurgent Violence in Iraq
A key piece of conventional wisdom among scholars of modern armed conflict is that collateral damage is often strategically costly in war. Yet most combatants already know this and take actions after mistakes—most prominently, the distribution of “condolence payments” to civilian victims—in order to mitigate these costs. Do these payments work? This question is important not only for policymakers but also for deeper theoretical debates about how …
What Shapes Civilian Beliefs about Violent Events? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Why do civilians in warzones often hold widely divergent beliefs about what is happening in the fighting? While there is a burgeoning literature on the micro-dynamics of armed conflict, variation in civilians’ factual beliefs has received scant attention. Yet such beliefs are critical, as they form the basis for wartime opinion and action. I argue that—particularly for civilians outside the direct “line of fire”—this variation comes not chiefly f…
Foreign Policy Attitudes toward Islamic Actors
This article examines how Western foreign policy opinion reacts to the perceived Islamic character of foreign actors. Studies show that the target actor’s dominant religion is a key ingredient in foreign policy opinion: Western audiences react more hostilely to “Muslim” than “Christian” targets. Yet, actors differ not only in which world religion they belong to but also how that religion is politicized by themselves and by others. We argue that I…
Mikołaj Kruszewski
Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to rectify this situation somewhat by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of Linguistic Science ( Očerk Nauki O Jazyke ) (1883), I place his work in the context of subseq…
Mikołaj Kruszewski
Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to partially rectify this situation by introducing Kruszewski's insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski's major work, An Outline of the Science of Language (Očerk Nauki O Jazyke) (1883), I place his work in the context of su…
Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean
Neutralization in Korean involves a large number of oppositions, and affects a significant portion of the lexicon. Nonetheless, it induces remarkably little homophony. These highly divergent facts are argued herein to be related. The present findings suggest a reconsideration of the role that ‘functional load’ (Martinet 1952, Hockett 1967) plays in patterns of sound change
Self-injurious Behaviors in a College Population
OBJECTIVE. The goal was to assess the prevalence, forms, demographic and mental health correlates of self-injurious behaviors in a representative college sample. METHODS. A random sample of undergraduate and graduate students at 2 northeastern US universities were invited to participate in an Internet-based survey in the spring of 2005. Thirty-seven percent of the 8300 invited participants responded. RESULTS. The lifetime prevalence rate of havin…
On the phonetic and cognitive nature of alveolar stop allophony in American English
I o¤er an evolutionary approach to the English alveolar stop allophony pattern—with one value evolving towards context-dependent naturalness, and the other value evolving towards context-dependent contrastiveness (provided cue expression is su‰cient to avoid neutralization)—arguing that patterns of allophony may be the product of an interaction among phonetic, cognitive, and evolutionary forces
On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops
Pre-aspirated stops, known to be quite rare in the world's languages, are shown herein to be significantly rarer still. Their aspiration component is typically reinforced by an oral gesture that is influenced by the following stop and/or the preceding vowel. Alternatively, the aspiration component weakens to zero and is replaced by vowel length. In this typological study I document the phonetic details of so-called pre-aspirates and offer phoneti…
Dynamic versus static phonotactic conditions in prosodic morphology
Complementary distribution stems from two sources. The first is a consequence of static lexical regularities such that two sounds never appear in the same context. The second is from dynamic alternations induced by morphological derivation. In this paper I provide evidence - from New York English, Akan, Madurese, and Malay - that these two sorts of relationship among sounds possess distinct phonological properties. Sounds engaged in a static comp…
Theoretical Aspects of Kashaya Phonology and Morphology. Eugene Buckley
Hypotheses concerning the phonetic and functional origins of tone displacement in Zulu
High tones in Zulu are displaced rightward from their vowel of origin in the context of preceding "depressor" consonants, a segment type traditionally considered to possess breathy phonation. In this paper, I suggest that physical properties of the speech mechanism-phonetic factors-may have initially induced the apparent rightward "unhinging" of high tones in the context of preceding depressors, and that independent functional factors may have in…
Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels
Linguistic sound systems necessarily possess contrastive values that are sufficiently distinct from one another that their individual characters may be learned by the listener. In this way, any given value in any given system fulfils its functional role of rendering forms distinct which differ in meaning. Articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic and auditory constraints serve to mediate between such sound–meaning correspondences in non-trivial ways. I…
Tone Sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec
Comaltepec Chinantec tone sandhi normally consists of rightward high tone spreading from syllables with a low-high tone pattern, and almost all sandhi outputs are non-neutralizing. This sound pattern may be understood by considering articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic, and auditory principles, in necessary combination with phonetically rooted historical forces, and the principles of contrast maintenance, economy of effort, and what is termed patt…
Phonology at the interface of phonetics and morphology
Voiceless Nasals in Auditory Phonology
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)
Nationalism and Feminism in Late Colonial India
Between 1943 and 1945, 1,500 Indian women in Burma, Malaya and Singapore exchanged their colorful saris for the khakis, breeches, half caps and boots of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the all-female brigade of the Indian National Army (INA). Under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose, Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, members of the moneyed elite and the daughters of rubber plantation laborers shared the same food and fate to fight a jungle war for Indi…
Multiple scansions in loanword phonology
In loanword phonology we seek to uncover the processes by which speakers possessing one phonological system perceive, apply native representational constraints on, and ultimately produce forms which have been generated by a different phonological system. We are interested in how speakers instantiate segmental and prosodic structure on an input which may or may not abide by native rules. Crucial to this assumed strategy is the idea that loanwords …
The Medical Clinics of North America-Symposium on Psychiatry in Internal Medicine, Vol. 61, No. 4
Sharing the crisis of rape
The involvement of mates and family members in counseling interventions designed to help victims of rape in their post-traumatic reconstitutive efforts is critical. Suggestions are offered for assisting those close to the woman in their attempts to explore and articulate feelings and concerns about the crisis
First do no more harm
As the crisis of women who have been raped is more frequently brought to the attention of mental health workers, male counselors are increasingly being confronted with responsibility for aiding female victims. This paper considers the difficulties inherent in men fulfilling this therapeutic task, and discusses male misconceptions and responses that may undermine the efforts of well-meaning counselors
What Shapes Civilian Beliefs about Violent Events? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Why do civilians in warzones often hold widely divergent beliefs about what is happening in the fighting? While there is a burgeoning literature on the micro-dynamics of armed conflict, variation in civilians’ factual beliefs has received scant attention. Yet such beliefs are critical, as they form the basis for wartime opinion and action. I argue that—particularly for civilians outside the direct “line of fire”—this variation comes not chiefly f…
Friends in the Profession
What drives foreign state support for rebel organizations? While scholars have examined the geopolitical and organizational factors that fuel foreign support, the role of rebel leaders in this process remains understudied. In this article, we propose that rebel leaders’ personal backgrounds shape their ability to obtain foreign support during conflict. In particular, we argue that rebel leaders with significant prior international experiences—inc…
Seeing Is Disbelieving
Misinformation, lies, and fake news are pervasive in war. But when are they actually believed by the people who live in war zones, and when are they not? This question is key, as their spread can spark greater violence and spoil efforts to make peace. In this study, we advance a new argument about lies in war. Building on existing research that links people's factual beliefs in conflict to their psychological and informational biases, we argue th…
On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops
Pre-aspirated stops, known to be quite rare in the world's languages, are shown herein to be significantly rarer still. Their aspiration component is typically reinforced by an oral gesture that is influenced by the following stop and/or the preceding vowel. Alternatively, the aspiration component weakens to zero and is replaced by vowel length. In this typological study I document the phonetic details of so-called pre-aspirates and offer phoneti…
Foreign Policy Attitudes toward Islamic Actors
This article examines how Western foreign policy opinion reacts to the perceived Islamic character of foreign actors. Studies show that the target actor’s dominant religion is a key ingredient in foreign policy opinion: Western audiences react more hostilely to “Muslim” than “Christian” targets. Yet, actors differ not only in which world religion they belong to but also how that religion is politicized by themselves and by others. We argue that I…
Nationalism and Feminism in Late Colonial India
Between 1943 and 1945, 1,500 Indian women in Burma, Malaya and Singapore exchanged their colorful saris for the khakis, breeches, half caps and boots of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the all-female brigade of the Indian National Army (INA). Under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose, Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, members of the moneyed elite and the daughters of rubber plantation laborers shared the same food and fate to fight a jungle war for Indi…
Too Late to Apologize? Collateral Damage, Post-Harm Compensation, and Insurgent Violence in Iraq
A key piece of conventional wisdom among scholars of modern armed conflict is that collateral damage is often strategically costly in war. Yet most combatants already know this and take actions after mistakes—most prominently, the distribution of “condolence payments” to civilian victims—in order to mitigate these costs. Do these payments work? This question is important not only for policymakers but also for deeper theoretical debates about how …
Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean
Neutralization in Korean involves a large number of oppositions, and affects a significant portion of the lexicon. Nonetheless, it induces remarkably little homophony. These highly divergent facts are argued herein to be related. The present findings suggest a reconsideration of the role that ‘functional load’ (Martinet 1952, Hockett 1967) plays in patterns of sound change
Tone Sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec
Comaltepec Chinantec tone sandhi normally consists of rightward high tone spreading from syllables with a low-high tone pattern, and almost all sandhi outputs are non-neutralizing. This sound pattern may be understood by considering articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic, and auditory principles, in necessary combination with phonetically rooted historical forces, and the principles of contrast maintenance, economy of effort, and what is termed patt…
Dynamic versus static phonotactic conditions in prosodic morphology
Complementary distribution stems from two sources. The first is a consequence of static lexical regularities such that two sounds never appear in the same context. The second is from dynamic alternations induced by morphological derivation. In this paper I provide evidence - from New York English, Akan, Madurese, and Malay - that these two sorts of relationship among sounds possess distinct phonological properties. Sounds engaged in a static comp…
First do no more harm
As the crisis of women who have been raped is more frequently brought to the attention of mental health workers, male counselors are increasingly being confronted with responsibility for aiding female victims. This paper considers the difficulties inherent in men fulfilling this therapeutic task, and discusses male misconceptions and responses that may undermine the efforts of well-meaning counselors
The Medical Clinics of North America-Symposium on Psychiatry in Internal Medicine, Vol. 61, No. 4
Sharing the crisis of rape
The involvement of mates and family members in counseling interventions designed to help victims of rape in their post-traumatic reconstitutive efforts is critical. Suggestions are offered for assisting those close to the woman in their attempts to explore and articulate feelings and concerns about the crisis
Multiple scansions in loanword phonology
In loanword phonology we seek to uncover the processes by which speakers possessing one phonological system perceive, apply native representational constraints on, and ultimately produce forms which have been generated by a different phonological system. We are interested in how speakers instantiate segmental and prosodic structure on an input which may or may not abide by native rules. Crucial to this assumed strategy is the idea that loanwords …
Nationalism and Feminism in Late Colonial India
Between 1943 and 1945, 1,500 Indian women in Burma, Malaya and Singapore exchanged their colorful saris for the khakis, breeches, half caps and boots of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the all-female brigade of the Indian National Army (INA). Under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose, Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, members of the moneyed elite and the daughters of rubber plantation laborers shared the same food and fate to fight a jungle war for Indi…
Phonology at the interface of phonetics and morphology
Voiceless Nasals in Auditory Phonology
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)
Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels
Linguistic sound systems necessarily possess contrastive values that are sufficiently distinct from one another that their individual characters may be learned by the listener. In this way, any given value in any given system fulfils its functional role of rendering forms distinct which differ in meaning. Articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic and auditory constraints serve to mediate between such sound–meaning correspondences in non-trivial ways. I…
Tone Sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec
Comaltepec Chinantec tone sandhi normally consists of rightward high tone spreading from syllables with a low-high tone pattern, and almost all sandhi outputs are non-neutralizing. This sound pattern may be understood by considering articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic, and auditory principles, in necessary combination with phonetically rooted historical forces, and the principles of contrast maintenance, economy of effort, and what is termed patt…
Hypotheses concerning the phonetic and functional origins of tone displacement in Zulu
High tones in Zulu are displaced rightward from their vowel of origin in the context of preceding "depressor" consonants, a segment type traditionally considered to possess breathy phonation. In this paper, I suggest that physical properties of the speech mechanism-phonetic factors-may have initially induced the apparent rightward "unhinging" of high tones in the context of preceding depressors, and that independent functional factors may have in…
Theoretical Aspects of Kashaya Phonology and Morphology. Eugene Buckley
Dynamic versus static phonotactic conditions in prosodic morphology
Complementary distribution stems from two sources. The first is a consequence of static lexical regularities such that two sounds never appear in the same context. The second is from dynamic alternations induced by morphological derivation. In this paper I provide evidence - from New York English, Akan, Madurese, and Malay - that these two sorts of relationship among sounds possess distinct phonological properties. Sounds engaged in a static comp…
On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops
Pre-aspirated stops, known to be quite rare in the world's languages, are shown herein to be significantly rarer still. Their aspiration component is typically reinforced by an oral gesture that is influenced by the following stop and/or the preceding vowel. Alternatively, the aspiration component weakens to zero and is replaced by vowel length. In this typological study I document the phonetic details of so-called pre-aspirates and offer phoneti…
On the phonetic and cognitive nature of alveolar stop allophony in American English
I o¤er an evolutionary approach to the English alveolar stop allophony pattern—with one value evolving towards context-dependent naturalness, and the other value evolving towards context-dependent contrastiveness (provided cue expression is su‰cient to avoid neutralization)—arguing that patterns of allophony may be the product of an interaction among phonetic, cognitive, and evolutionary forces
Self-injurious Behaviors in a College Population
OBJECTIVE. The goal was to assess the prevalence, forms, demographic and mental health correlates of self-injurious behaviors in a representative college sample. METHODS. A random sample of undergraduate and graduate students at 2 northeastern US universities were invited to participate in an Internet-based survey in the spring of 2005. Thirty-seven percent of the 8300 invited participants responded. RESULTS. The lifetime prevalence rate of havin…
Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean
Neutralization in Korean involves a large number of oppositions, and affects a significant portion of the lexicon. Nonetheless, it induces remarkably little homophony. These highly divergent facts are argued herein to be related. The present findings suggest a reconsideration of the role that ‘functional load’ (Martinet 1952, Hockett 1967) plays in patterns of sound change
Mikołaj Kruszewski
Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to rectify this situation somewhat by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of Linguistic Science ( Očerk Nauki O Jazyke ) (1883), I place his work in the context of subseq…
Mikołaj Kruszewski
Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to partially rectify this situation by introducing Kruszewski's insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski's major work, An Outline of the Science of Language (Očerk Nauki O Jazyke) (1883), I place his work in the context of su…
Foreign Policy Attitudes toward Islamic Actors
This article examines how Western foreign policy opinion reacts to the perceived Islamic character of foreign actors. Studies show that the target actor’s dominant religion is a key ingredient in foreign policy opinion: Western audiences react more hostilely to “Muslim” than “Christian” targets. Yet, actors differ not only in which world religion they belong to but also how that religion is politicized by themselves and by others. We argue that I…
What Shapes Civilian Beliefs about Violent Events? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Why do civilians in warzones often hold widely divergent beliefs about what is happening in the fighting? While there is a burgeoning literature on the micro-dynamics of armed conflict, variation in civilians’ factual beliefs has received scant attention. Yet such beliefs are critical, as they form the basis for wartime opinion and action. I argue that—particularly for civilians outside the direct “line of fire”—this variation comes not chiefly f…
Too Late to Apologize? Collateral Damage, Post-Harm Compensation, and Insurgent Violence in Iraq
A key piece of conventional wisdom among scholars of modern armed conflict is that collateral damage is often strategically costly in war. Yet most combatants already know this and take actions after mistakes—most prominently, the distribution of “condolence payments” to civilian victims—in order to mitigate these costs. Do these payments work? This question is important not only for policymakers but also for deeper theoretical debates about how …
Seeing Is Disbelieving
Misinformation, lies, and fake news are pervasive in war. But when are they actually believed by the people who live in war zones, and when are they not? This question is key, as their spread can spark greater violence and spoil efforts to make peace. In this study, we advance a new argument about lies in war. Building on existing research that links people's factual beliefs in conflict to their psychological and informational biases, we argue th…
Friends in the Profession
What drives foreign state support for rebel organizations? While scholars have examined the geopolitical and organizational factors that fuel foreign support, the role of rebel leaders in this process remains understudied. In this article, we propose that rebel leaders’ personal backgrounds shape their ability to obtain foreign support during conflict. In particular, we argue that rebel leaders with significant prior international experiences—inc…
Seeing Is Disbelieving
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, and when is it not? Seeing is Disbelieving examines the appeal and limits of dangerous misinformation in war, and is the go-to text for understanding false beliefs and their impact in modern armed conflict. Daniel Silverman extends the burgeoning study of factual misinformation, conspiracy theories,…
Surviving the Islamic State
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