Incrementality is a basic feature of the human language processor. There is a considerable amount of objective data that humans build-up interpretations of the sentences before perceiving the end of the sentence (Marslen-Wilson, 1973; Kamide et al., 2003), and there is also evidence to support the idea that such incremental interpretation is based on fast, incremental construction of syntactic ...

BACKGROUND Tungiasis is a parasitic skin disease brought about by female Tunga penetrans when they burrow into the skin of their hosts. It is a disease that has largely been ignored. Epidemiology of tungiasis has not been widely studied in Kenya which could negatively affect effective intervention strategies. This study therefore sought to investigate epidemiology of tungiasis in selected areas...

Previous studies have documented ethnic/racial bias in politicians’ constituency service, but less is known about the circumstances under which such ethnocentric responsiveness curbed. We propose and test two hypotheses this regard: electoral incentives hypothesis , predicting that for (re)election crowd out potential biases, candidate selection stipulating minority constituents can identify re...

A new mathematical object, the bubble tree, is introduced and applied to the syntactic representation of sentences. Two themes are explored: first, the comparison of dependency and constituency models; second, the application of bubble trees to a particular syntactic model.

We first describe the automatic conversion of the French Treebank (Abeillé and Barrier, 2004), a constituency treebank, into typed projective dependency trees. In order to evaluate the overall quality of the resulting dependency treebank, and to quantify the cases where the projectivity constraint leads to wrong dependencies, we compare a subset of the converted treebank to manually validated d...

Recent research establishes a significant positive correlation between law and finance (and hence economic growth), re-starting a debate on the “law matters” thesis. However, which way the causality goes is still not clear. The purpose of this paper is to use the ongoing reform experience of China, especially its capital market experience, to examine the direction of causality. First, we show t...

1 Introduction Usage-based theories of grammar suggest that constituent structure emerges in part from co-occurrence: items used together fuse together forming cohesive, hard-to-interrupt units (Bybee 2002, see also Gregory et al. 1999, Kapatsinski 2010, Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003). This study is an effort to investigate the effects of co-occurrence on constituent structure in language producti...

This paper proposes and tests an experimental method to evaluate models of linguistic constituency, including: 1) Connections within constituents are stronger than connections spanning constituent boundaries, 2) A constituent is more likely to be parsed out of the signal than a non-constituent (i.e., constituents are processing units), and 3) Both constituents and non-constituents are units, wi...