Previous theories of past-tense verb inflection have considered phonological and grammatical information to be the only relevant factors in the inflection process (e.g. Bybee & Moder, 1983; Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986; Kim, Pinker, Prince & Prasada, 1991). This paper presents three experiments that show that semantic information plays a decisive role in determining the inflection of both exist...

Inflection suffix is an important morphological characteristic of Mongolian words, since the suffixes express abundant syntactic and semantic meanings. In order to provide an informative introduction of it, this paper implements a case study on it. Through three Mongolian NLP tasks, we disclose the following information: (1) views of inflection suffix in NLP tasks, (2) Inflection suffix process...

Corver & Van Koppen (2011) argue that the inflection appearing on adjectival endings in Dutch and its dialects is actually an instance of a weak indefinite pronoun resembling English one. One of the arguments in support of this idea comes from the behavior of the apparent adjectival inflection in certain NPE-cases in which there is no overt inflection on the adjective. However, if ellipsis of t...

Sometimes history is a Morse function. Inflection points arrive, unanticipated, and in the blink of an eye, present reality our expectations for future are redefined. The assassinations John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King Jr. 1960s, Tiananmen Square fall Berlin Wall 1989, World Trade Center attacks 2001—all occupied mere seconds, minutes, or, at most, few days; each changed trajectory history.

There have been several inflection points in human history where an innovation changed every aspect of human life in a fundamental and irreversible manner. There is no doubt that we are now in the midst of a new inflection point: the Internet revolution. However, if the Internet is to realize its promise of being the next revolutionary global communication medium, we need to achieve the five gr...

We study continuous symmetry reduction of dynamical systems by the method of slices (method of moving frames) and show that a ‘slice’ defined by minimizing the distance to a single generic ‘template’ intersects the group orbit of every point in the full state space. Global symmetry reduction by a single slice is, however, not natural for a chaotic / turbulent flow; it is better to cover the red...

Rich verbal inflection has been argued (a) to license pro-drop (e.g. Safir 1985); (b) to be connected to overt Verb-second (Platzack & Holmberg 1989; van Gelderen 1993; Roberts 1996); and (c) to activate the AGR(eement) and T(ense) positions (Bobaljik & Jonas 1996). The connections in (b) and (c) follow if one assumes that the relationship between morphology and syntax is a direct one: elements...

How children acquire knowledge of verb inflection is a long-standing question in language acquisition research. In the present study, we test the predictions of some current constructivist and generativist accounts of the development of verb inflection by focusing on data from two Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 2;0 and 2;6. The constructivist claim that children's early knowledge...