According to the original description by Rizzolatti and colleagues, the prerequisite of triggering the discharge of mirror neurons (MNs) is the interaction of the hand with an object. On the other hand, several studies reported that the MN system in humans can be activated also by non object-directed (intransitive) movements. This difference between human and monkey MN systems has been consider...

Research using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has consistently shown that English-learning children aged 2 can associate transitive argument structure with causal events. However, studies using the same methodology investigating 2-year-old children's knowledge of the conjoined agent intransitive and semantic role assignment have reported inconsistent findings. The aim of th...

This research aims to study the feature of nasals in Kanayatn Dayak language, spoken West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and whether they are replacive or additive particular initial phonemes root. The data were collected by recording interviewing five informants 45-55 years old native speakers Dayak. Through descriptive linguistics approach describe linguistic features nasals, this revealed that could...

Distributional semantic methods to approximate word meaning with context vectors have been very successful empirically, and the last years have seen a surge of interest in their compositional extension to phrases and sentences. We present here a new model that, like those of Coecke et al. (2010) and Baroni and Zamparelli (2010), closely mimics the standard Montagovian semantic treatment of comp...

Let Γ be a finite locally (G, s)-arc transitive graph with s ≥ 2 such that G is intransitive on vertices. Then Γ is bipartite and the two parts of the bipartition are G-orbits. In previous work the authors showed that if G has a nontrivial normal subgroup intransitive on both of the vertex orbits of G, then Γ is a cover of a smaller locally s-arc transitive graph. Thus the “basic” graphs to stu...

The assumption that preferences are transitive, or, roughly equivalently, that choice behavior satisfies the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference, is at the core of much classical normative decision theory. This paper asks to what degree this restricts the possible outcomes of choice behavior: are there objectives that could not be attained by an agent adhering to WARP that could be attained by ch...

The Unaccusativity Hypothesis (UH) holds that intransitive verbs are divided into two broad classes, namely unaccusatives and unergatives. While there is evidence that the UH holds cross-linguistically, it is known that languages do not divide the intransitives into two uniform groups. We investigate the unaccusative-unergative distinction in Turkish by an offline grammaticality judgment task u...

We propose a new method for detecting verb alternations, by comparing the probability distributions over WordNet classes occurring in two potentially alternating argument positions. Existing distance measures compute only the distributional distance, and do not take into account the semantic similarity between WordNet senses across the distributions. Our method compares two probability distribu...