This research investigates dialectal variations of the pitch accent system in Korean. Specifically, this paper is focused on how speakers of a nonlexical pitch accent dialect are influenced by a lexical pitch accent dialect. Three experiments have participants from two dialectal regions produce pitch accent minimal pairs, and imitate and identify continua spanning pitch accent categories. Resul...

Online forums have become the main source of knowledge over Internet as data are constantly flooded into them. In most cases, a question in web forum receives several responses, making it impossible for poster to obtain suitable answer. Thus, an important problem is how automatically extract appropriate and high-quality answers thread. Prior studies used different combinations both lexical nonl...

The purpose of this study was to gain more information on the structure of different layers of renal arteryand comparing these structures in post-natal male and female sheep. To do so, right and left renal arteries of6 adult and 6 newborn animals were dissected; the middle parts of arteries were only collected. After tissueprocessing using paraffin embedding method, 5–6-μm sections were cut and...

The work presented here investigated the length effect in nonword reading aloud in order to assess whether that effect is driven by the number of letters in a string or by the number of graphemes in a string. Simulation work with the DualRoute Cascaded (DRC) model (e.g., Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Coltheart & Rastle, 1994) uncovered a surprising finding regarding the length effe...

We study quotients of multi-graded bundles, including double vector bundles. Among other things, we show that any such quotient fits into a tower affine Applications the theory include construction normal bundles for weighted submanifolds, as well pairs submanifolds with clean intersection.

Word identification, which is the retrieval of the linguistic constituents (phonological, semantic) of a word, plays a central role in children’s reading development. This development includes the automatization of word decoding and the attainment of fluent reading levels, both essential for skilled reading with comprehension (Perfetti, 1992; Stanovich, 2000; Verhoeven & van Leeuwe, 2009). In l...