Conventional wisdom holds that productive morphology is regular morphology. Drawing evidence from French, we argue that the description of many lexeme formation processes is simplified if we hold that a productive rule may give rise to inflectionally irregular lexemes. We argue that the notion of a stem space allows for a straightforward description of this phenomenon: each lexeme comes equippe...

In vivo cortical neurons are known to exhibit highly irregular spike patterns. Because the intervals between successive spikes fluctuate greatly, irregular neuronal firing makes it difficult to estimate instantaneous firing rates accurately. If, however, the irregularity of spike timing is decoupled from rate modulations, the estimate of firing rate can be improved. Here, we introduce a novel c...

A simple graph G is said to be regular if its vertices have the same number of neighbors. Otherwise, id="M2"> nonregular. So far, various formulas, such as Albertson index, total and degree deviation, been introduced quantify irregularity a graph. In this paper, we present sharp lower bounds for these indices in terms or...