I want to begin this reply by thanking the three reviewers of my book (B), Haspelmath (H), Malchukov (M), and Stiebels (S), for paying careful attention to it, and for the kind things that they find to say about it, despite significant differences in our basic approaches and perspectives. I am glad that they each found some interest or inspiration in it—although I realize that that may be as mu...

This paper proposes a new theoretical model for the design of creativity-enhancing interfaces. The combination of user and content creation software is looked at as a creative system, and we tackle the question of how best to design the interface to utilise the abilities of both the computer and the brain. This model has been developed in the context of music technology, but may apply to any si...

This is a preliminary study of the potential relationship between pain and gait parameters in 11 persons with transtibial amputation who underwent gait analysis under both baseline and discomfort walking conditions . Gait analysis included measurement with a VA-Rancho Stride Analyzer of the following gait parameters : velocity, cadence, stride length, gait cycle, and support time . These data w...

We ® rst consider the estimation of the ® nite rate of population increase or population growth rate, k i , using capturerecapture data from open populations. We review estimation and modelling of k i under three main approaches to modelling openpopulation data: the classic approach of Jolly (1965) and Seber (1965), the superpopulation approach of Crosbie & Manly (1985) and Schwarz & Arnason (1...

© Appl. Rheol. 20 (2010) 63293 DOI: 10.3933/ApplRheol-20-63293 Abstract: Bitumen is undoubtedly the most important material in the construction and rehabilitation of flexible road pavements. By increasing the temperature, bitumen changes from brittle solid, to viscoelastic solid and finally to Newtonian fluid. The rheological characteristics of bitumen also vary greatly due to aging, which is a...

The central problem for the linguistic theory, often referred to as Plato's problem, is how children are able to acquire language despite the impoverished nature of the linguistic data they are exposed to. The Principles and Parameters approach provides a viable solution to Plato's problem. The basic idea is that children are biologically endowed with a set of principles, which are invariant ac...

This paper presents a direct implementation of Government-Binding theory in a parser for German, which faithfully models the modular structure of the theory. The modular design yields a flexible environment, in which it is possible to define and test various versions of principles and parameters. The several modules of linguistic theory and the parser proper are interleaved in parallel fashion ...

This research-in-progress paper deals with service modularization of complex services. The successful creation of powerful modules allow leveraging modularization benefits such as reuse, faster development, module-wide innovation, and rapid reconfiguration. Consequently, service provider efficiencies as well as user centricity can be realized. Therefore, the principles of modularization, i.e. c...

Under normal circumstances, acquiring a first language, compared to acquiring a second or third language, seems to come naturally and successfully. This natural process of first language acquisition (henceforth L1A) appears to be illogical. This is because what first language learners (henceforth L1ers) attain (i.e. a grammar of adult native speakers of a given language) goes beyond the positiv...

In this paper we provide theoretical support for the so-called “Sigmoidal Gaussian Cox Process” approach to learning the intensity of an inhomogeneous Poisson process on a ddimensional domain. This method was proposed by Adams, Murray and MacKay (ICML, 2009), who developed a tractable computational approach and showed in simulation and real data experiments that it can work quite satisfactorily...