Conceptual maps using multivariate statistics: Building bridges between typological linguistics and psychology

Building Bridges: Slavic Linguistics Going Cognitive

Steven Franks (1996) in his Reflections piece from the Journal of Slavic Linguistics made a comment that “...the walls that divide us [linguists] are coming down all over. What’s next?”, he asked. “Cognitive Science?” I think the answer to this question is a definite yes. The ability to produce and comprehend language is crucial for functioning in our society, and for the past two decades, ling...

Typological traits and genetic linguistics

One of the basic principles in establishing a genetic grouping of languages is that typological traits must be excluded from consideration at the initial stage of establishment; only substantive traits (form-meaning pairings) are relevant. Yet typological evidence is still frequently appealed to in recent discussions of the methodology for establishing genetic classifications and in recent prop...

Building Bridges Between Convex Regions

In the Euclidean traveling salesman and buyers problem (TSBP), we are given a set of convex regions in d-dimensional space, and we wish to nd a minimum-cost tour that visits all the regions. The cost of a tour depends on the length of the tour itself and on the distance that buyers within each region need to travel to meet the salesman. We show that constantfactor approximations to the TSBP and...

Mental balance and well-being: building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology.

Clinical psychology has focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disease, and only recently has scientific attention turned to understanding and cultivating positive mental health. The Buddhist tradition, on the other hand, has focused for over 2,500 years on cultivating exceptional states of mental well-being as well as identifying and treating psychological problems. This ar...

Building Bridges between Neural Models