Borrowing: the synchrony of integration

Borrowing: the synchrony of integration*

The notion of loanword assimilation is operationalized in a number of d~flerent ways, focusing on both linguistic and social aspects. The indices of integration thus constructed are applied to a set of lexical data elicited from Puerto Ricatz children and adults from East Harlem, New York. The results of this survey are analyzed statistically using the method of principal components. We interpr...

Multisensory Integration: Maintaining the Perception of Synchrony

We are rarely aware of differences in the arrival time of inputs to each of our senses. New research suggests that this is explained by a 'moveable window' for multisensory integration and by a 'temporal ventriloquism' effect.

The Shrink Point: Audiovisual Integration of Speech-Gesture Synchrony

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

Rochester Borrowing-proofness Borrowing-proofness

We formulate and study the requirement on an allocation rule that no agent should be able to benefit by augmenting his endowment through borrowing resources from the outside world (alternatively, by simply exaggerating it). We show that the Walrasian rule is not “borrowing-proof” even on standard domains. More seriously, no efficient selection from the endowments-lower-bound correspondence, or ...