Cross‐linguistic preferences in onset‐nucleus sequences

Preferences for Sequences of Outcomes

Existing models of intertemporal choice normally assume that people are impatient, preferring valuable outcomes sooner rather than later, and that preferences satisfy the formal condition of independence, or separability, which states that the value of a sequence of outcomes equals the sum of the values of its component parts. The authors present empirical results that show both of these assump...

Crosslinguistic research

Crosslinguistic Notions of (In)definiteness

We argue that both Russellian and Heimian definites exist in natural languages. Our account captures both the commonality and difference between the two. Further, we suggest that the Russel-lian/Heimian distinction extends to indefinites too.

Crosslinguistic Transfer in Automatic Verb Classi cation

We investigate the use of multilingual data in the automatic classiication of English verbs, and show that there is a useful transfer of information across languages. Speciically, we experiment with three lexical semantic classes of En-glish verbs. We collect statistical features over a sample of English verbs from each of the classes, as well as over Chinese translations of those verbs. We use...

Preferences over Objects, Sets and Sequences