the present study aims at exploring kinship terms and the different ways in which they are used to refer to and address relatives and non-relatives in hawrami, an iranian language spoken in paveh, a border city in kermanshah province. the relevant linguistic and cultural data are obtained primarily by one of the researchers as a native speaker of the dialect and through field works and intervie...

Protection of privacy in databases has become of increasing importance. While a number of techniques have been proposed to query databases while preserving privacy of individual records in the database, very little is done to define a measure on how much privacy is lost after statistical releases. We suggest a definition based on information theory. Intuitively, the privacy loss is proportional...

The article represents the outlook of modern methods psycholinguistic analysis dialogue semantics, semantic vector being most prospective in discourse linguistics. experimental psycholinguistics are rather new, and our research is an attempt to apply them study suggest some new methods. Psycholinguistic reveals numerous interdisciplinary links interpreting human speech behavior: with cognitive ...

While holism and atomism are often treated as mutually exclusive approaches to semantic theory, the apparent tension between the two usually results from running together distinct levels of semantic explanation. In particular, there is no reason why one can’t combine an atomistic conception of what the semantic values of our words are (one’s “descriptive semantics”), with a holistic explanation...

Weakly recognizing morphisms from free semigroups onto finite semigroups are a classical way for defining the class of ω-regular languages, i.e., a set of infinite words is weakly recognizable by such a morphism if and only if it is accepted by some Büchi automaton. We consider the descriptional complexity of various constructions for weakly recognizing morphisms. This includes the conversion f...

The communication structure of parallel communicating grammar systems (PCGS) considered as the descriptional complexity of PCGS is investigated here. The aim of the paper is to compare computational power of PCGS’s with respect to their communication structure. Investigating the generation of the languages over one-letter alphabet the communication structures dags(directed acyclic graphs) and c...

We prove that the set of properties describable by a uniform sequence of rst-order sentences using at most k + 1 distinct variables is exactly equal to the set of properties checkable by a Turing machine in DSPACEn k ] (where n is the size of the universe). This set is also equal to the set of properties describable using an iterative deenition for a nite set of relations of arity k. This is a ...

The purpose of this work is to identify, describe and compare the figurative semantics ornithonyms in Russian Georgian languages. linguocultures have not been subject special consideration comparison with a meaning relevant useful teaching as foreign language. following research methods were used: analysis dictionary definitions languages; method continuous sampling, analytical, descriptive, cl...