Weighted automata model quantitative aspects of systems like the consumption of resources during executions. Traditionally, the weights are assumed to form the algebraic structure of a semiring, but recently also other weight computations like average have been considered. Here, we investigate quantitative context-free languages over very general weight structures incorporating all semirings, a...

This paper presents a new method of measur ing performance when positives are rare and investigates whether Chomsky like grammar representations are useful for learning accu rate comprehensible predictors of members of biological sequence families The positive only learning framework of the Inductive Logic Programming ILP system CProgol is used to generate a grammar for recognis ing a class of ...

This essay reviews the following books: The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics . 2nd ed., revised and updated. Edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 744. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003939. Picturing Cuba: Art, Identity on Island in Diaspora. Jorge Duany. Gainesville: Press of Florida, xii 320. $35...

A. Overview (1) Organization: a. What is generative linguistics and phonology? b. Rule-based phonology c. How OT works d. Predictions of the model e. Acquisition and OT f. Current developments g. Resources B. What is generative linguistics and phonology? (2) Competence vs. performance Generative linguists are interested in describing what a speaker knows about their language, rather than in des...

Basically, A is a reason for B, if A speaks in favor of B, or makes B more plausible, or is positively relevant to B. And basically, a doxastic feature is a priori, if all rational doxastic states have that feature. The paper will unfold these notions. And it will argue, partially in a deductive way, for a series of a priori principles about the structure of reasons, starting with a basic empir...

Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Tax Dysregulates -Catenin Signaling Mariko Tomita, Akira Kikuchi, Tetsu Akiyama, Yuetsu Tanaka, and Naoki Mori* Division of Molecular Virology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, and Division of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan; Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hirosh...

The ‘Generative’ program for linguistic theory is now about 50 years old. During its short history, the aims and methods of the program have changed, as is to be expected of any scientific approach to natural phenomena. This essay outlines three periods within the Generative enterprise. The phases can be (roughly) identified in terms of the different goals that generativists set for themselves;...

EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *English, Linguistics, *Linguistic Theory, Orthographic Symbols, Phonetics, *Phonetic Transcription, Phonology, Reading, *Reading Processes, Semantics, *Spelling Chomsky and Halle claim that an orthography based on their system of phonological representations of lexical items would be optimal. Their analysis assumes that (1) a reader need read only for meaning and n...