This study investigates how Seoul Korean-speaking children and adults use pitchand duration-related phonetic cues to mark focus. It was found that to distinguish focus from non-focus, the adults used both the pitchand duration-related cues, but the children used only the duration-related cues to distinguish focus from post-focus. Further, neither the adults nor the children distinguish narrow f...

This paper deals with an aspectual classification of Korean and Japanese verbs based on Vendler (1967). Both of Korean and Japanese verbs are classified into 12 distinctive aspectual categories by their restrictions on time adverbials, progressive tenses and logical entailments. A well-established aspectual verb classes provide us not only with a better understanding of both languages, but also...

This study investigates recent changes in Korean intonation where an AP-initial syllable [il] is produced as a High tone by some speakers, introducing an exception to the intonational model of Korean. Data from 51 Seoul speakers and 26 Chonnam speakers show that this phenomenon, found most often when [il] means ‘one’, is employed mostly by Seoul speakers in their early 40s and younger. We propo...

Root ofPlumbago indica Linn is used in ayurveda and siddha medicine for the treatment of colic inflammations bronchitis, helminthiasis, hemorrhoids, elephantiasis, hepatosplenomegaly, amenorrhea, odontalgia, piles, and diabetes. The present study aims to investigate the anatomical characters of thin and thick root and to confirm the physicochemical characters of the root. Anatomical st...

Plants have evolved a variety of chemical means to deter herbivory. Several studies have documented that secondary compounds are strong deterrents to certain herbivores, while others have demonstrated that some herbivores ingest large quantities of these compounds without exhibiting deleterious effects. This inconsistent response suggests that plants have evolved compounds to deter specific her...

of Michigan, published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled " The Pharmacologic Action of Drugs: Is It Determined by Chemical Structure or by Physical Characters? " 1 To a chemist today, this question might seem odd. The physical properties of a drug and its chemical structure are, after all, intimately related, and even if one wants to distinguish between clos...