Robin Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2631-2542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Testifying while black: An experimental study of court reporter accuracy in transcription of African American English
Court reporters are certified at either 95% or 98% accuracy, depending on their certifying organization; however, the measure of accuracy is not one that evaluates their ability to transcribe nonstandard dialects. Here, we demonstrate that Philadelphia court reporters consistently fail to meet this level of transcription accuracy when confronted with mundane examples of spoken African American English (AAE). Furthermore, we show that they often c…
Conflict, cheap talk, and Jespersen's cycle
Game-theory has found broad application in modeling meaning in both the classical Gricean case of common interests between interlocutors and, more recently, in cases of conflicting interests. Here we consider how conflicting interests between speakers and hearers can be used to explain language change. We use tools from evolutionary game theory to characterize the effect of conflicting interests in the case of Jespersen’s cycle. We show how the c…
Skilful seasonal predictions for the European energy industry
We assess the utility of seasonal forecasts for the energy industry by showing how recently-established predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in winter allows predictability of near-surface wind speed and air temperature and therefore energy supply and demand respectively. Our seasonal prediction system (GloSea5) successfully reproduces the influence of the NAO on European climate, leading to skilful forecasts of wind speed and w…
The relationship between student-centred lectures, emotional intelligence, and study teams: A Social Telemetry Study With Mobile Telephony
A student-centred approach to teaching has been conceptualized as a key driver in higher education to facilitate understanding of concepts and improve attainment. The occurrence of student study team behaviours is diagnostic of this approach to teaching. However, the extent to which team behaviours are performed outside the parameters of formal teacher-learner environments remains under-researched. This is problematic as it is unclear whether stu…
Generalized Quantifiers and Number Sense
Generalized quantifiers are functions from pairs of properties to truth-values; these functions can be used to interpret natural language quantifiers. The space of such functions is vast and a great deal of research has sought to find natural constraints on the functions that interpret determiners and create quantifiers. These constraints have demonstrated that quantifiers rest on number and number sense. In the first part of the paper, we turn t…
Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century
This paper reviews recent literature concerning a wide range of processes through which climate change could potentially impact global-scale agricultural productivity, and presents projections of changes in relevant meteorological, hydrological and plant physiological quantities from a climate model ensemble to illustrate key areas of uncertainty. Few global-scale assessments have been carried out, and these are limited in their ability to captur…
Pronouns in Catalan: Games of partial information and the use of linguistic resources
Looking After Children: Assessing outcomes in child care. The experience of implementation
Looking After Children: Assessing outcomes in child care. The experience of implementation
A Department of Health initiative has supported the implementation of Looking After Children in over 90 per cent of local authorities in England. The process has required major organisational change and new values and attitudes towards children looked after away from home. Difficulties arise where management and monitoring systems are not available to support these wider changes and to assess the quality of practice. Nevertheless clear benefits t…
Looking After Children: Assessing outcomes in child care. The experience of implementation
A Department of Health initiative has supported the implementation of Looking After Children in over 90 per cent of local authorities in England. The process has required major organisational change and new values and attitudes towards children looked after away from home. Difficulties arise where management and monitoring systems are not available to support these wider changes and to assess the quality of practice. Nevertheless clear benefits t…
The Absorption Operator and Universal Grammar
On the Nature of Grammatical Relations
In this dissertation, I develop and support a theory of grammatical relations, i.e.~a theory about the connection between semantic roles and dependencies and their expressions in sentences, Grammatical relations are defined as the syntactic counterparts of certain logico-semantic relations, such as the predicate-subject and modifier-modi~iee relations.Associated with each sentence in a language is a "logico-semantic (I-a) progressed only because …
Life and Work in Prehistoric Times
Testifying while black: An experimental study of court reporter accuracy in transcription of African American English
Court reporters are certified at either 95% or 98% accuracy, depending on their certifying organization; however, the measure of accuracy is not one that evaluates their ability to transcribe nonstandard dialects. Here, we demonstrate that Philadelphia court reporters consistently fail to meet this level of transcription accuracy when confronted with mundane examples of spoken African American English (AAE). Furthermore, we show that they often c…
Pronouns in Catalan: Games of partial information and the use of linguistic resources
On the Nature of Grammatical Relations
In this dissertation, I develop and support a theory of grammatical relations, i.e.~a theory about the connection between semantic roles and dependencies and their expressions in sentences, Grammatical relations are defined as the syntactic counterparts of certain logico-semantic relations, such as the predicate-subject and modifier-modi~iee relations.Associated with each sentence in a language is a "logico-semantic (I-a) progressed only because …
Life and Work in Prehistoric Times
The Absorption Operator and Universal Grammar
On the Nature of Grammatical Relations
In this dissertation, I develop and support a theory of grammatical relations, i.e.~a theory about the connection between semantic roles and dependencies and their expressions in sentences, Grammatical relations are defined as the syntactic counterparts of certain logico-semantic relations, such as the predicate-subject and modifier-modi~iee relations.Associated with each sentence in a language is a "logico-semantic (I-a) progressed only because …
Looking After Children: Assessing outcomes in child care. The experience of implementation
Looking After Children: Assessing outcomes in child care. The experience of implementation
A Department of Health initiative has supported the implementation of Looking After Children in over 90 per cent of local authorities in England. The process has required major organisational change and new values and attitudes towards children looked after away from home. Difficulties arise where management and monitoring systems are not available to support these wider changes and to assess the quality of practice. Nevertheless clear benefits t…
Looking After Children: Assessing outcomes in child care. The experience of implementation
A Department of Health initiative has supported the implementation of Looking After Children in over 90 per cent of local authorities in England. The process has required major organisational change and new values and attitudes towards children looked after away from home. Difficulties arise where management and monitoring systems are not available to support these wider changes and to assess the quality of practice. Nevertheless clear benefits t…
Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century
This paper reviews recent literature concerning a wide range of processes through which climate change could potentially impact global-scale agricultural productivity, and presents projections of changes in relevant meteorological, hydrological and plant physiological quantities from a climate model ensemble to illustrate key areas of uncertainty. Few global-scale assessments have been carried out, and these are limited in their ability to captur…
Pronouns in Catalan: Games of partial information and the use of linguistic resources
Generalized Quantifiers and Number Sense
Generalized quantifiers are functions from pairs of properties to truth-values; these functions can be used to interpret natural language quantifiers. The space of such functions is vast and a great deal of research has sought to find natural constraints on the functions that interpret determiners and create quantifiers. These constraints have demonstrated that quantifiers rest on number and number sense. In the first part of the paper, we turn t…
The relationship between student-centred lectures, emotional intelligence, and study teams: A Social Telemetry Study With Mobile Telephony
A student-centred approach to teaching has been conceptualized as a key driver in higher education to facilitate understanding of concepts and improve attainment. The occurrence of student study team behaviours is diagnostic of this approach to teaching. However, the extent to which team behaviours are performed outside the parameters of formal teacher-learner environments remains under-researched. This is problematic as it is unclear whether stu…
Conflict, cheap talk, and Jespersen's cycle
Game-theory has found broad application in modeling meaning in both the classical Gricean case of common interests between interlocutors and, more recently, in cases of conflicting interests. Here we consider how conflicting interests between speakers and hearers can be used to explain language change. We use tools from evolutionary game theory to characterize the effect of conflicting interests in the case of Jespersen’s cycle. We show how the c…
Skilful seasonal predictions for the European energy industry
We assess the utility of seasonal forecasts for the energy industry by showing how recently-established predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in winter allows predictability of near-surface wind speed and air temperature and therefore energy supply and demand respectively. Our seasonal prediction system (GloSea5) successfully reproduces the influence of the NAO on European climate, leading to skilful forecasts of wind speed and w…
Testifying while black: An experimental study of court reporter accuracy in transcription of African American English
Court reporters are certified at either 95% or 98% accuracy, depending on their certifying organization; however, the measure of accuracy is not one that evaluates their ability to transcribe nonstandard dialects. Here, we demonstrate that Philadelphia court reporters consistently fail to meet this level of transcription accuracy when confronted with mundane examples of spoken African American English (AAE). Furthermore, we show that they often c…
Psychology (8 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works)