Intonational research is often dependent upon hand-labeling by trained listeners, which can be prone to bias or error. We apply tools from Functional Data Analysis (FDA) to a set of fundamental frequency (F0) data to demonstrate how these tools can provide a less theory-dependent way of investigating F0 contours by allowing statistical analyses of whole contours rather than depending on theoret...

0. Proposal. A central debate in the study of phrase structure concerns the nature of functional projections which dominate lexical ones. At one extreme is the position, advocated by Cinque (1999, 2002), that grammars employ a universal set of functional categories and that their number and relative order is the same across languages, regardless of properties of the lexical head. At the other e...

It is known that factorisation systems in categories can be viewed as unitary pseudo algebras for the monad P = (–)2, in Cat. We show in this note that an analogous fact holds for proper (i.e., epimono) factorisation systems and a suitable quotient of the former monad, deriving from a construct introduced by P. Freyd for stable homotopy. Some similarities of P with the structure of the path end...

An action ∗ : V × A−→ A of a monoidal category V on a category A corresponds to a strong monoidal functor F : V−→ [A,A] into the monoidal category of endofunctors of A. In many practical cases, the ordinary functor f : V−→ [A,A] underlying the monoidal F has a right adjoint g; and when this is so, F itself has a right adjoint G as a monoidal functor—so that, passing to the categories of monoids...

background: functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgids) entail several distinct conditions that collectively account for a sizeable proportion of patients complaining of abdominal pain. physicians' awareness is fundamental to avoid unnecessary evaluations and to alleviate stress-related problems. this study aimed to assess the relative frequencies of fgids and related categories in a selected...

The paper proposes the notions of topological platform and quantalic topological theory for the presentation and investigation of categories of interest beyond the realm of algebra. These notions are nevertheless grounded in algebra, through the notions of monad and distributive law. The paper shows how they entail previously proposed concepts with similar goals.

one of the main dichotomies in syntactic analyses deals with the distinction between lexical and functional categories. functional categories gain in stature as the generative grammar moves ahead. they come into play in explaining the derivation stages of phrases and sentences. the present study critically evaluates different approaches to the role and function of one of these functional catego...