Many approaches to early word learning posit that children assume a one-to-one mapping of form and meaning. However, children's early vocabularies contain homophones, words that violate that assumption. Children might learn such words by exploiting prosodic differences between homophone meanings that are associated with lemma frequency (Gahl, 2008). Such differences have not yet been documented...

In this article, the authors expand on some of their previous work on correspondence and propose a system that can correspond in the presence of both point and line tokens, or a mix of them. It can also work if some tokens present in one frame are not present in the other. The proposed algorithm is an amalgamation of reductionist and holist paradigms. We establish that properties which remain i...

Researchers studying the adaptive significance of behaviour typically assume that genetic mechanisms will not inhibit evolutionary trajectories, an assumption commonly known as the 'phenotypic gambit'. Although the phenotypic gambit continues to be a useful heuristic for behavioural ecology, here we discuss how genomic methods provide new tools and conceptual approaches that are relevant to beh...

Nonfungible tokens have a wide variety of applications in diverse settings. This article analyzes their potential benefits to companies and customers. It also highlights how they can be used companies’ product marketing communication strategies.

ERC20 token is the most popular type of Ethereum smart contract. The daily transaction volume these tokens exceeds 100 billion dollars, which agitates notions “decentralized banking” and “tokenized economy”. Yet, it a common misconception to assume that decentralization blockchain entails contracts deployed on this blockchain. In practice, developers implement administrating patterns, such as c...

Re-wilding parts of North America with exotic Old-World species is an exciting but controversial conservation proposal hijacked by opinions over appropriate conservation baselines and details of implementation. Debate over its worth has become partisan. Here, I summarize the multifaceted issues surrounding Pleistocene re-wilding and edge debate from hazy conceptual arguments to empirical questi...