A Note on Phonetic Ability

Note on Frequency in Phonetic Change

It is claimed that frequency of individual words may not be sufficient to predict the likelihood of a particular word being affected by a phonetic process: Given two environments that can equally trigger phonetic change, the same lexical item may be more likely to undergo change in one environment than in another, depending on how frequently the environment is associated with that item. An ongo...

Note on a Theorem in Summ Ability

A Note on Logics of Ability

This short note will discuss logical frameworks for reasoning about an agent’s ability. We will sketch details of logics of ‘can’, ‘do’, and ‘intention’. This note is not meant to be a complete survey of the relevant literature, but rather a starting point for an investigation in logics that can express what actions agents can perform and what state of affairs they can bring about. We assume fa...

Absolute Pitch: Effects of Timbre on Note-Naming Ability

BACKGROUND Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to identify or produce isolated musical tones. It is evident primarily among individuals who started music lessons in early childhood. Because AP requires memory for specific pitches as well as learned associations with verbal labels (i.e., note names), it represents a unique opportunity to study interactions in memory between linguistic and nonling...

A note on vague graphs

In this paper, we introduce the notions of product vague graph, balanced product vague graph, irregularity and total irregularity of any irregular vague graphs and some results are presented. Also, density and balanced irregular vague graphs are discussed and some of their properties are established. Finally we give an application of vague digraphs.