This talk explores degree adverbial modifiers licensed exclusively by metalinguistic negation (MN), and compares them with those licensed by descriptive negation (DN) such as NPIs. It shows how MN-licensing is more marked than DN-licensing in prosody and then attempts to show how anomalies arising from misplacing MN-licensed adverbs in DN-requiring short form negation sentences elicit the appro...

Note: the phenomena described in this chapter are very difficult to understand without viewing the moving stimuli. The reader is urged to view the demos when reading the chapter, at: 2 Like many aspects of vision, motion perception begins with a massive array of local measurements performed by neurons in area V1. Each receptive field covers a small piece of the visual world, and as a result suf...

This essay applies a narrative perspective to the topic of resilience. On various fronts (physical, social, biographical), aging itself, it argues, pushes us past a perception of aging as intrinsically tragic and toward a more ironic stance instead, one marked by increased acceptance of uncertainty and ambiguity. Moreover, intentional engagement in narrative reflection-by means of integrative r...

Abstract We empirically show that sample information not only moderates prospects’ outcome ambiguity but also decision makers’ revealed aversion of them. Since most natural prospects permit at least some inference, accounting for their degree improves prediction aversion. The special case full ambiguity, as in Ellsberg-type designs, is typically averted—yet many makers systematically like low d...

To produce accurate editing results, the ambiguity of editing scopes related to marked correction signs should be solved. Proofreading the web document modifies the document structures, and the modified structures should be robustly valid for the defined DTD. This paper presents a pen-based proofreading interface in the XML document. In the proposed interface, correction signs are free-drawn, a...

This talk is based on a joint paper with A. Bonami and G. Garrigós [3] in which the phase retrieval problem for the Radar Ambiguity Function (i.e. the Radar Ambiguity Problem) has been tackled. In particular it was shown that for wide classes of signals, the radar ambiguity problem has a unique solution, up to trivial transformations. In the second part of the talk, we report on ongoing work by...

By using the fractional Fourier transformation of the time-domain signals, closed-form expressions for the projections of their auto or cross ambiguity functions are derived. Based on a similar formulation for the projections of the auto and cross Wigner distributions and the well known two-dimensional (2-D) Fourier transformation relationship between the ambiguity and Wigner domains, closed-fo...

Al-Najjar and Weinstein 2009 propose to scrutinize the implications of recent theories of ambiguity in dynamic settings. They conclude that such implications are so unreasonable as to cast doubts on the legitimacy of the theories under consideration. The present paper argues that the seemingly unreasonable implications highlighted by Al-Najjar and Weinstein can be understood as the result of ba...

ln this paper, we describe an approach to planning sensing slralegies dynamically, based on the system’s current best information about the world. Our approach is for the system to automatically propose a sensing operation, and then to determine the maximum ambiguity which might remain in the world description if that sensing operation were applied. The system then applies that sensing operatio...