The focus of the study is two-fold: 1) to determine how much phonemic material must be considered in predicting nominal gender in Spanish; 2) to determine if gender assignment can be considered an analogical process. A database of Spanish nouns extracted from a frequency dictionary serves as the database for the present study, while the phonemic make up and syllable structure of the penultimate...

In a production study of tonal contrasts in lexically stressed but grammatically stressless syllables vs. lexically stressless syllables in Nanchang, a Gan dialect spoken in the city of Nanchang, Jiangxi province, we found that tonal neutralization only occurred in lexically stressless syllables. We argue that the main phonetic ground for such a tonal contrast distribution lies in the rime dura...

As literate English speakers, we are accustomed to the idea that words are made up of individual consonant and vowel sounds, called segments, that these sounds group into larger units called syllables, and that syllables naturally break down into intermediate units that include the rhyme (rime). But are elements like the segment, syllable, and rime universal, i.e., appropriate for the descripti...

Many studies have repeatedly shown an orthographic consistency effect in the auditory lexical decision task. Words with phonological rimes that could be spelled in multiple ways (i.e., inconsistent words) typically produce longer auditory lexical decision latencies and more errors than do words with rimes that could be spelled in only one way (i.e., consistent words). These results have been ex...

The extent to which H202 dissolved in cloud droplets is trapped in rime ice affects the composition of precipitation and the rate of H202 removal from the atmosphere. Measurements were conducted in winter stratiform clouds at a remote mountain-top site in southeastern Wyoming, thus avoiding the difficulties of preparing laboratory clouds whose chemical and physical properties are similar to nat...

Cet article analyse les pratiques ordinaires de la laïcité à Boulogne-Billancourt travers relations qui s’établissent sur le plan local, entre autorités politiques et religieuses dans cadre l’édification nouveaux lieux culte cette ville des « beaux quartiers » l’Ouest parisien. À un premier niveau, politique municipale l’égard principales communautés — catholique, juive musulmane est légitimée ...

Nuclear receptors play an important role in transcriptional regulation of diverse cellular processes and is also relevant in diseases such as cancer. In breast cancer, the nuclear receptors - estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) are classical markers of the disease and are used to classify breast cancer subtypes. Using a recently developed affinity purification MS technique (RI...