This paper focuses on the development of Prosodic Word shapes in Catalan, a language which differs from both Spanish and English in the distribution of PW structures. Of particular interest are the truncations of initial unstressed syllables, and how these develop over time. Developmental qualitative and quantitative data from seven Catalan-speaking children reveal that maximality constraints a...

A certain pill bottle contains m large pills and n small pills initially, where each large pill is equivalent to two small ones. Each day the patient chooses a pill at random, if a small pill is selected, (s)he eats it; otherwise (s)he breaks the selected pill and eats one half, replacing the other half, which thenceforth is considered to be a small pill. (a) What is the expected number of smal...

Different phonological analyses of front-mid vowels can be seen to agree on one point: =G? is more complex than ='?. Support for the validity of this claim is potentially available from perceptual and acquisitional studies. The vowels of Catalan are described, and procedures detailed which identify formant values for Catalan front-mid vowels. Empirical tests using native speakers and English co...

A set partition of size n is a collection of disjoint blocks B1, B2, . . . , Bd whose union is the set [n] = {1, 2, . . . , n}. We choose the ordering of the blocks so that they satisfy minB1 < minB2 < · · · < minBd. We represent such a set partition by a canonical sequence π1, π2, . . . , πn, with πi = j if i ∈ Bj. We say that a partition π contains a partition σ if the canonical sequence of π...

A non-crossing pairing on a bitstring matches 1s and 0s in a manner such that the pairing diagram is nonintersecting. By considering such pairings on arbitrary bitstrings 1101 . . . 1r0r , we generalize classical problems from the theory of Catalan structures. In particular, it is very difficult to find useful explicit formulas for the enumeration function φ(n1, m1, . . . , nr, mr), which count...

We define a q generalization of weighted Catalan numbers studied by Postnikov and Sagan, and prove a result on the divisibility by p of such numbers when p is a prime and q its power.

In this paper we present the construction process of a web corpus of Catalan built from the content of the .cat top-level domain. For collecting and processing data we use the Brno pipeline with the spiderling crawler and its accompanying tools. To the best of our knowledge the corpus represents the largest existing corpus of Catalan containing 687 million words, which is a significant increase...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the choice between establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) or entering into a joint venture (JV) as made by Catalan manufacturing firms investing abroad. The validity of certain key transaction-cost hypotheses in this case is tested using binomial logistic regression. Results indicate that a Catalan manufacturing firm is more ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 P. Larrivée and C. Lee (eds.), Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives, Language, Cognition, and Mind 1, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8_7 Abstract This study focuses on the interaction between prosody and syntax in the interpretation of single negation and Double Negation in two Negative Concord languages, namely Catalan and Spanish. ...