s: Plenary Speakers Spiros Argyros (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) [email protected] HI extensions of L∞ spaces and spaces with very few operators Tuesday, July 30, HA4, 9:00–9:50 We will present a general method of embedding Banach spaces with separable dual into L∞ spaces admitting very few operators. In particular we will discuss the following two results. Theorem 1. (i...

Aim: To investigate the characteristics of vocal tract resonance in Hindi Esophageal Speakers. Methodology: Five normal Hindi speakers and five Hindi esophageal speakers participated in this study. They were asked to produce the three corner vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/ in the three different conditions like nonsustained, sustained and word level. The average first three formant frequencies F1, F2,...

lf as the grammatical locus of semantic interpretation in minimalism implies that lf is the only level at which any structural condition can be checked. accordingly, cross over effects provides some evidence for the existence of lf. to provide further evidence for the universality of cross over effects at lf, a comparative research between persian-english, turkish-english and persian-turkish ha...

This paper is an acoustic analysis of the pitch/F0 of the six long tones [55 33 22 21 25 23] in Cantonese produced by the male and female adult speakers and male and female child speakers. Results show that (i) the F0 patterns of the Cantonese tones for the speakers of different age-and-gender groups are similar, but the absolute F0 values differ. (ii) The difference in F0 between the adult and...

This paper aims to examine the contribution of pitch and pitch range to the perception of foreign accent produced by Chinese L2 speakers of German. A perceptual assessment of 8 Chinese speakers was conducted by a panel of 10 German native speakers. Phonetic acoustic analysis was carried out for these 8 Chinese speakers and 7 German speakers for comparison. The results show that the Chinese spea...

Bernhard Banaschewski McMaster University William DeMeo University of South Carolina François Dorais Dartmouth College Mart́ın Escardó University of Birmingham Mai Gehrke Université Diderot Paris 7 & CNRS Steven Givant Mills College Heinz-Peter Gumm Universität Marburg Steve Jackson University of North Texas Michael Pinsker Université Diderot Paris 7 Hilary Priestley University of Oxford Dima Si...

s for Invited Speakers What follows is a list of abstracts for the invited speakers in the order that they will be presented. These can also be found individually via the conference website’s participant list. Extending Fisher’s inequality to coverings Daniel Horsley School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia [email protected] A (v, k, λ)-design is a collection ...

Towards a Smarter Web Wendy Hall, University of Southampton Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, UK, and dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences. She was head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007. She was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, a...

for the keynote lecture at the Fifth International Symposium on Human Survivability (21-22 November 2016, Kyoto University, Japan) Whether by error, by terror, or by war, humanity has reached the technological capability to cause its own extinction. In the 21st century, anthropogenic risks, inter alia stemming from technological advances in fields such as bioengineering, artificial intelligence...

The paper investigates a seeming paradox. Formal theories of meaning standardly assume that sentencesin real communication or in fictionare evaluated relative to utterance contexts. Therefore, such theories lead us to expect that texts in fiction always refer to speakers, which come as part of these utterance contexts. Intuition, on the contrary, tells us that many stories do not create the imp...