We present an approach based on generalized linear models for analysing dominance data. First, dominance is defined as a parameter characterizing the relationship between two individuals, determining the expected number of successes of the first individual in disputes with the other. Second, models known from the literature of two different forms of transitivity are defined in terms of these pa...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To determine if structural priming can be demonstrated in young children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). RESEARCH DESIGN A mixed-model design was used to compare children with SLI to two groups of typically developing (TD) children, and to compare priming conditions. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Eighteen children with SLI and 36 TD children (18 matched on ag...

Two experiments investigated the interaction of intonation boundaries and verb bias during spoken language comprehension in English. An online cross-modal naming task proved to be sensitive to the interaction of prosodic, syntactic, and semantic representations during resolution of a temporary syntactic closure ambiguity (e.g., Whenever the lady checks the room...). The results supported previo...

In this paper we present some preliminary ideas about how to formally relate various uncertainty representations together in a taxonomic structure, capturing both syntactic and semantic generalization. Fuzziness and nonspeciicity are presumed as primitive concepts of uncertainty, and transitive and intransitive methods operating with nonspeciicity and fuzziness are introduced to generate a base...

This study investigates the role of performance limitations in children's early acquisition of verb-argument structure. Valian (1991) claims that intransitive frames are easier for children to produce early in development than transitive frames because they do not require a direct object argument. Children who understand this distinction are expected to produce a lower proportion of transitive ...

This paper forms part of a study of 2-arc transitivity for finite imprimitive symmetric graphs, namely for graphs admitting an automorphism groupG that is transitive on ordered pairs of adjacent vertices, and leaves invariant a nontrivial vertex partition B. Such a group G is also transitive on the ordered pairs of adjacent vertices of the quotient graph B corresponding toB. If in additionG is ...

Previous research has indicated a potential discontinuity between monkey and human ventral premotor-parietal mirror systems, namely that monkey mirror systems process only transitive (object-directed) actions, whereas human mirror systems may also process intransitive (non-object-directed) actions. The present study investigated this discontinuity by seeking evidence of automatic imitation of i...

Real-time information flow security properties such as timed noninterference provide assurances that some time dependent information flows may not become possible. However, with transitive noninterference formulation, it is difficult to deal with intransitive flow policies like channel control and secure downgrading of information with time constraints. In this paper, we introduce the notion of...

Case in Lotha, (a Tibeto-Burman language spoken Wokha District of Nagaland) is marked by suffixes that appear to the right noun it marks. In Lotha ergative marker can combine with both nouns and pronouns, however, nominative markers only occur pronouns. has aspectual split ergativity which word class (noun vs. pronoun), aspect, tense are determining factors. The occurs mainly A argument a trans...