The usual source of crosshnguistic influence in the interlanguage of a person learning a first foreign language (L2) is quite obviously his/her LI Pinpointing the source of crosshnguistic influences in the interlanguage of a multilingual speaker is less straightforward The main source of crosshnguistic influence m the L3 of a speaker is not automatically, as the present study shows, the LI of t...

This study examines the phenomenon of post-aspirated voiceless stops in Western Andalusian Spanish in /s/ + voiceless stop sequences. Previous analyses have proposed that the post-aspiration arises through a reorganization of the glottal spreading gesture for /s/ and the oral constriction gesture for the stop. This theory is tested by steadily increasing speakers' production rate, which has bee...

The goal of this study is to introduce a new type of evidence to the debate on the nature of what is known in the literature as quantifier spreading (q-spreading), also referred to as the “symmetry error”. Since the work of Inhelder and Piaget (1964), it has been known that until the age of 7–8, children’s responses are frequently different from those of adults when judging the truth-value of s...

Social bookmark services like del.icio.us enable easy annotation for users to organize their resources. Collaborative tagging provides useful index for information retrieval. However, lack of sufficient tags for the developing documents, in particular for new arrivals, hides important documents from being retrieved at the earlier stages. This paper proposes a spreading activation approach to pr...

The present paper examines what kinds of Shanghai disyllabic lexical tone sandhi undergoes, especially in what sense and to what extent a disyllabic tone can be claimed to result from rightward spreading of the corresponding citation tone. It will be shown that F0 spreading occurs in the Long tone domains while Contour element spreading mainly in the Short tone domains.

Association mining aims to find valid correlations among data attributes, and has been widely applied to many areas of data analysis. This paper presents a semantic network-based association analysis model including three spreading activation methods. It applies this model to assess the quality of a dataset, and generate semantically valid new hypotheses for adaptive study design especially use...

Useless paths are a chronic problem for marker-passing techniques. We use a prob­ abilistic analysis to justify a method for quickly identifying and rejecting useless paths. Using the same analysis, we identify key conditions and assumptions necessary for marker-passing to perform well.

In this article we consider three versions of the spreading activation model for retrieval of information from memory. Predictions are derived for activation spreading down a linear network structure as a function of time. To test these predictions, two experiments were performed in which facilitation as a function of time was measured for target words in a linearly structured paragraph. A targ...