In this paper, we propose a model for measuring the reliability of the description of a language by a deterministic finite automaton . Intuitively, the reliability exhibits when used for is high if the “difference” between and the language accepted by is small. Using this model, we prove that the savings in the number of states between a fully reliable and a less reliable representation cannot ...

Aymara, a Jaqi language of the Andes (Bolivia/Peru/Chile), exhibits morpheme-final vowel deletion that is triggered by a complex set of phonological, morphological, and syntactic factors (Hardman et al. 2001). In this paper I will look at a subset of these cases, namely morphologically-conditioned vowel elision, where a suffix is lexically specified to delete the final vowel of the root or suff...

More than a decade after becoming a topic of intense research there is no transactional memory hardware nor any examples of software transactional memory use outside the research community. Using software transactional memory in large pieces of software needs copious source code annotations and often means that standard compilers and debuggers can no longer be used. At the same time, overheads ...

Stuart Hall, in his 1983 lectures states, “people have to a language speak about where they are and what other possible futures available them….These may not be real; if you try concretize them immediately, find there is nothing there. But there, real, the possibility of being someone else, some social space from one which already been placed.” (Hall, 2016, p.205) The literature Northeast India...