Rebecca Morley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Morley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Morley |
| SIGNATURE | MORLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6066-1914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mindsets and actions
Cities face interconnected challenges for health equity, including structural racism, inadequate housing, and climate change. Due to past failures to achieve positive development outcomes for low-income and marginalized communities, many U.S. cities now emphasize equitable planning and community engagement. However, practitioners often lack the tools to implement just, equitable, and health-promoting policies effectively. Through semi-structured …
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English
The voicing effect is among the most studied and robust of phonetic phenomena. Yet there remains a lack of consensus on why vowels preceding voiced obstruents should be longer than vowels preceding voiceless obstruents. In this paper we provide an analysis of the voicing effect in a corpus of natural speech, and using production data from a metronome-timed word repetition study. From this evidence, as well as the existing literature, we conclude …
Use of health impact assessments in the housing sector to promote health in the United States, 2002–2016
Is phonological consonant epenthesis possible? A series of artificial grammar learning experiments
Consonant epenthesis is typically assumed to be part of the basic repertoire of phonological grammars. This implies that there exists some set of linguistic data for which epenthesis is the best analysis. However, a series of artificial grammar learning experiments found no evidence that learners ever selected an epenthesis analysis. Instead, phonetic and morphological biases were revealed, along with individual variation in how learners generali…
Can phonological universals be emergent? Modeling the space of sound change, lexical distribution, and hypothesis selection
Deletion or epenthesis? On the falsifiability of phonological universals
Can phonological universals be emergent
This article is an analysis of the claim that a universal ban on certain ('anti-markedness') grammars is necessary in order to explain their nonoccurrence in the languages of the world. Such a claim is based on the following assumptions: that phonological typology shows a highly asymmetric distribution, and that such a distribution cannot possibly arise 'naturally'-that is, without a universal grammar-based restriction of the learner's hypothesis…
Implications of an Exemplar-Theoretic Model of Phoneme Genesis
Diachronic velar palatalization is taken as the case study for modeling the emergence of a new phoneme category. The spread of a palatalized variant through the lexicon is treated as a stochastic classification task for the listener/learner. The model combines two measures of similarity to determine classification within an exemplar-theoretic framework: acoustic distance and phonotactic expectation. There are three model outcomes: contrast, allop…
The Emergence of Epenthesis
Intervocalic consonant epenthesis is used as a case study for investigating grammar change. An emergentist framework is adopted, whereby a simple learning mechanism transforms a phonetically-based sound change into a synchronic phonological process. A two-part model of such 'grammaticalizing' change is developed, along with a formal analysis of the necessary model properties. This work demonstrates that perception-based consonant loss could, in p…
Changing housing policy
Domestic violence has risen up the political agenda, as women's action has inspired changes in police, social work and legal practice. At the same time, one of the oldest pieces of legislation that protected women from violence - the Homeless Persons Act of 1977 - has been transmuted into the Housing Act of 1996. This legislation was introduced by a Conservative government, which was anxious to reduce the rights of homeless people to secure perma…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse’ by lone mothers. The two articles published here view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse' by lone mothers. The two articles published view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most have…
Wife Beating and Modernization
This paper examines the relationship of modernization to wife beating, using data from a unique set of standardized questionnaire surveys conducted by the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea to investigate the nature and extent of domestic violence throughout the diverse cultures of that country. Wife beating is found to be widespread throughout Papua New Guinea. The data cast doubt on the hypothesis that modernization increases wife beatin…
Hype or Hope? The Importation of Pro-Arrest Policies and Batterers' Programmes From North America to Britain as Key Measures for Preventing Violence Against Women in the Home
This paper examines two developments in the British response to preventing violence aginst women in the home: pro-arrest policies and batterers' programmes. The paper examines evaluations made of those programmes in North America, where they originated and where they are not uncontentious, and their adoption into the British context
Wife Beating and Modernization
This paper examines the relationship of modernization to wife beating, using data from a unique set of standardized questionnaire surveys conducted by the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea to investigate the nature and extent of domestic violence throughout the diverse cultures of that country. Wife beating is found to be widespread throughout Papua New Guinea. The data cast doubt on the hypothesis that modernization increases wife beatin…
Use of health impact assessments in the housing sector to promote health in the United States, 2002–2016
Deletion or epenthesis? On the falsifiability of phonological universals
Can phonological universals be emergent
This article is an analysis of the claim that a universal ban on certain ('anti-markedness') grammars is necessary in order to explain their nonoccurrence in the languages of the world. Such a claim is based on the following assumptions: that phonological typology shows a highly asymmetric distribution, and that such a distribution cannot possibly arise 'naturally'-that is, without a universal grammar-based restriction of the learner's hypothesis…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse’ by lone mothers. The two articles published here view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse' by lone mothers. The two articles published view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most have…
Hype or Hope? The Importation of Pro-Arrest Policies and Batterers' Programmes From North America to Britain as Key Measures for Preventing Violence Against Women in the Home
This paper examines two developments in the British response to preventing violence aginst women in the home: pro-arrest policies and batterers' programmes. The paper examines evaluations made of those programmes in North America, where they originated and where they are not uncontentious, and their adoption into the British context
Hype or Hope? The Importation of Pro-Arrest Policies and Batterers' Programmes From North America to Britain as Key Measures for Preventing Violence Against Women in the Home
This paper examines two developments in the British response to preventing violence aginst women in the home: pro-arrest policies and batterers' programmes. The paper examines evaluations made of those programmes in North America, where they originated and where they are not uncontentious, and their adoption into the British context
Wife Beating and Modernization
This paper examines the relationship of modernization to wife beating, using data from a unique set of standardized questionnaire surveys conducted by the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea to investigate the nature and extent of domestic violence throughout the diverse cultures of that country. Wife beating is found to be widespread throughout Papua New Guinea. The data cast doubt on the hypothesis that modernization increases wife beatin…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse’ by lone mothers. The two articles published here view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse' by lone mothers. The two articles published view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most have…
Changing housing policy
Domestic violence has risen up the political agenda, as women's action has inspired changes in police, social work and legal practice. At the same time, one of the oldest pieces of legislation that protected women from violence - the Homeless Persons Act of 1977 - has been transmuted into the Housing Act of 1996. This legislation was introduced by a Conservative government, which was anxious to reduce the rights of homeless people to secure perma…
The Emergence of Epenthesis
Intervocalic consonant epenthesis is used as a case study for investigating grammar change. An emergentist framework is adopted, whereby a simple learning mechanism transforms a phonetically-based sound change into a synchronic phonological process. A two-part model of such 'grammaticalizing' change is developed, along with a formal analysis of the necessary model properties. This work demonstrates that perception-based consonant loss could, in p…
Implications of an Exemplar-Theoretic Model of Phoneme Genesis
Diachronic velar palatalization is taken as the case study for modeling the emergence of a new phoneme category. The spread of a palatalized variant through the lexicon is treated as a stochastic classification task for the listener/learner. The model combines two measures of similarity to determine classification within an exemplar-theoretic framework: acoustic distance and phonotactic expectation. There are three model outcomes: contrast, allop…
Can phonological universals be emergent? Modeling the space of sound change, lexical distribution, and hypothesis selection
Deletion or epenthesis? On the falsifiability of phonological universals
Can phonological universals be emergent
This article is an analysis of the claim that a universal ban on certain ('anti-markedness') grammars is necessary in order to explain their nonoccurrence in the languages of the world. Such a claim is based on the following assumptions: that phonological typology shows a highly asymmetric distribution, and that such a distribution cannot possibly arise 'naturally'-that is, without a universal grammar-based restriction of the learner's hypothesis…
Is phonological consonant epenthesis possible? A series of artificial grammar learning experiments
Consonant epenthesis is typically assumed to be part of the basic repertoire of phonological grammars. This implies that there exists some set of linguistic data for which epenthesis is the best analysis. However, a series of artificial grammar learning experiments found no evidence that learners ever selected an epenthesis analysis. Instead, phonetic and morphological biases were revealed, along with individual variation in how learners generali…
Use of health impact assessments in the housing sector to promote health in the United States, 2002–2016
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English
The voicing effect is among the most studied and robust of phonetic phenomena. Yet there remains a lack of consensus on why vowels preceding voiced obstruents should be longer than vowels preceding voiceless obstruents. In this paper we provide an analysis of the voicing effect in a corpus of natural speech, and using production data from a metronome-timed word repetition study. From this evidence, as well as the existing literature, we conclude …
Mindsets and actions
Cities face interconnected challenges for health equity, including structural racism, inadequate housing, and climate change. Due to past failures to achieve positive development outcomes for low-income and marginalized communities, many U.S. cities now emphasize equitable planning and community engagement. However, practitioners often lack the tools to implement just, equitable, and health-promoting policies effectively. Through semi-structured …
Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)