The California Oak Disease and Arthropod (CODA) host index database is a compilation of information on agents that colonize or feed on oaks in California. Agents in the database include plant-feeding insects and mites, nematodes, microorganisms, viruses, and abiotic disease agents. CODA contains summarized information on hosts, agents, information sources, and the details of the host-agent inte...

Abstract. This paper describes a knowledge-based approach to automate a software design method for concurrent and real-time systems. The approach uses multiple paradigms to represent knowledge embedded within the design method. Semantic data modeling provides the means to represent concepts from a behavioral modeling technique, called Concurrent Object-Based Real-time Analysis (COBRA), which de...

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) system does rely on syllable boundary information for segmental duration. However, ambisyllabic consonants always pose a problem to TTS because the system requires clear syllable boundaries to segment and concatenate. In order to provide a possible solution to this problem, /n/ and /l/ in VLCAVR are chosen in this paper as the target to be examined whether their duratio...

Experimental evaluation is an important way to assess distributed systems, and fault injection is the dominant technique in this area for the evaluation of a system’s dependability. For distributed systems, network failure is an important fault model. Physical network failures often have far-reaching effects, giving rise to multiple correlated failures as seen by higher-level protocols. This th...

This paper examines the perceptual weight of cues to the coda glottal consonant contrast in Trique (Oto-Manguean) with native listeners. The language contrasts words with no coda (/Vː/) from words with a coda glottal stop (/VɁ/) or breathy coda (/Vɦ/). The results from a speeded AX (same-different) lexical discrimination task show high accuracy in lexical identification for the /Vː/-/Vɦ/ contra...

This paper investigates how different syllable affiliations of intervocalic /st/ cluster affect vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Very few studies have examined the effect of syllable structure on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Previous studies show that onset and coda consonants differ acoustically, articulatorily, perceptually and typologically. Onsets are stronger, more stable, more ...

0749-596X/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2012.10.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: School of Psyc New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Fa E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Taft). The way in which letters are assigned their position when recognizing a visually presented word was examined in three experiments using nonwords created by transpo...