We examined how 61 young zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) males copied song from 5 adult tutors. Zebra finch song consists of a string of 5-15 distinct syllables, and these syllables were copied as chunks, or strings of consecutive syllables (modal length = 3). The silent interval between 2 syllables was copied as part of the syllable after the silence. Copied chunks had boundaries that fell a...

We introduce a Web-scale linguistics search engine, Linggle, that retrieves lexical bundles in response to a given query. Unlike a typical concordance, Linggle accepts queries with keywords, wildcard, wild part of speech (PoS), synonymous words, and additional regular expression (RE) operators, and returns bundles with frequency counts. In our approach, we argument Google Web 1T corpus with inv...

The work presented in this paper is related to the area of situational method engineering (SME). In this domain, approaches are developed accordingly to specific project specifications. We propose to adapt an existing method construction process, namely the assembly-based one. One of the particular features of assembly-based SME approach is the selection of method chunks. Our proposal is to off...

We argue that the ability to find meaningful chunks in sequential input is a core cognitive ability for artificial general intelligence, and that the Voting Experts algorithm, which searches for an information theoretic signature of chunks, provides a general implementation of this ability. In support of this claim, we demonstrate that VE successfully finds chunks in a wide variety of domains, ...

Electronic whiteboards are capable of preserving and reusing writings on blackboards (or whiteboards) at classes. This means that many more people than before can see the writings. Making these writings tidy is a desired feature. This paper describes a writing tool on the electronic whiteboards. The tool uses time information to treat strokes as two levels of chunks: the character level and the...

Several studies have found learning of biconditional grammars only under intentional rule-search conditions (e.g., Johnstone & Shanks, 2001). Memorization of strings merely led to the learning of chunks. We used a musical grammar, a diatonic inversion, that is a type of biconditional grammar. Participants either were required to memorize a set of grammatical tunes (incidental learning), or were...

This paper unearths the contribution of lexical cohesion to the textuality and overall meaning of Malcolm X’s speech 'The Ballot or the Bullet'. Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Hoey’s (1991) theory of cohesion, specifically lexical   cohesion, whose main thrust is the role of lexical items in not only contributing to meaning but also serving as cohesive ties, the paper discusses how ...

Writing may be an effective approach to the study of cognitive phenomena that involve the processing of chunks. This paper provides evidence for the existence of a substantial and robust temporal signal in the process of writing that reveals information about the structure of chunks in working memory. Specifically, it is demonstrated that in the writing of simple number sequences the duration o...

When using a high content of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in production, the RAP properties play primary role defining performance new mixture. The depend not only on composition old but also milling process. Here we performed full-scale experiment at four jobsites. At each them, three machine parameters were varied (moving speed, depth, and drum rotational speed), while everything else rem...