The aim of this paper was to find out the scope and boundaries of a-reduction in Modern Hebrew. In Classical Hebrew, vowel reduction was a regular, obligatory process. In Modern Hebrew, it has restricted scope and operates under opaque conditions. The only reliable trace of the historical motivation for the rule is the Hebrew vocalization system (nikud). 100 participants in four age groups were...

This paper examines morphophonological alternations involving apicoalveolar tapconsonant clusters in Urban East Norwegian from the framework of gestural Optimality Theory. Articulatory Phonology provides an insightful explanation of patterns of vowel intrusion, coalescence, and rhotic deletion in terms of the temporal coordination of consonantal gestures, which interacts with both prosodic and ...

On the basis of evidence from studies of the naming and reading of numerals, Ferrand (1999) argued that the naming of objects is slower than reading their names, due to a greater response uncertainty in naming than in reading, rather than to an obligatory conceptual preparation for naming, but not for reading. We manipulated the need for conceptual preparation, while keeping response uncertaint...

Fifty percent of the titles I've addressed since embarking on writing this article series are a result of my having received 5 or more concerned phone calls relating to a given subject. This installment: The latest or updated generation of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems selling techniques to be encountered at the National Manufacturing Week Conference in Chicago: 1) Are you going t...

Discourse audiences are susceptible to fall victims of the concealed ideological representations in discourses at the expanse of changing and modifying their mental models through which they act on the world. Translators as readers and at the same time intercultural mediators need to be equipped with the knowledge of how ideology is accommodated in discourse both not to fall victim to it and to...

We construct finite-dimensional irreducible representations of two quantum algebras related to the generalized Lie algebra sl(2) q introduced by Lyubashenko and the second named author. We consider separately the cases of q generic and q at roots of unity. Some of the representations have no classical analog even for generic q. Some of the representations have no analog to the finite-dimensiona...

1.1. Motivation. Much of representation theory can be unified by considering the representation theory of associative algebras. Specifically, the representation theory of Lie algebras may be studied via the representations of universal enveloping algebras; the representation theory of finite groups studied via the representation theory of the group algebra; the representation theory of quivers ...