We examine the impact of givenness on argument realization in a small text corpus of Yucatec folk narratives (660 clause-like units). We find that the default devices for the extension of topic chains are bare cross-reference markers. Weightier expressions – free pronouns, demonstrative proforms, clause-mate co-nominals, and left-dislocated pro-forms or nominals – are used for disambiguation am...

In this paper, two generalizations of the SOM are introduced. The first of these extends the SOM to deal with more generalized classes of objects besides the vector dataset. This generalization is realized by employing modular networks instead of reference vector units and is thus called a modular network SOM (mnSOM). The second generalization involves the extension of the SOM from ‘map’ to ‘ho...

Meaghan Duetsch The United States has experienced many changes over the past two decades in the way health care is managed, such as the shift from primarily fee-for-service type health insurance coverage to coverage through health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs). Health care expenditures, as a proportion of all expenditures, have increased over the l...

This paper aims to show how we can make progress in elucidating how people understand speech by changing our focus of inquiry from abstraction of formal units of linguistic analysis to a detailed analysis of global aspects of the communicative situation, of which speech is just one part. It uses evidence of (a) the communicative importance of fine phonetic detail and (b) exemplar memory for spe...

This paper aims to show how we can make progress in elucidating how people understand speech by changing our focus of inquiry from abstraction of formal units of linguistic analysis to a detailed analysis of global aspects of the communicative situation, of which speech is just one part. It uses evidence of (a) the communicative importance of fine phonetic detail and (b) exemplar memory for spe...

PURPOSE To measure the optical density of the crystalline lens and macular pigments in a group of patients with diabetes mellitus and compare the results with those in a group of control subjects. METHODS Color matches were performed using a Wright tristimulus colorimeter. The reference wavelength used was 490 nm, desaturated with 650 nm. Lens optical density was measured by mixing spectral p...