Whistled languages represent an experiment of nature to test the widely accepted view that language comprehension is to some extent governed by the left hemisphere in a rather input-invariant manner. Indeed, left-hemisphere superiority has been reported for atonal and tonal languages, click consonants, writing and sign languages. The right hemisphere is specialized to encode acoustic properties...

An RLC circuit, certain parameters of which are measured sequentially, that is, one after the other, undergoes signi cant perturbations that a ect its dynamical behavior. By contrast, these perturbations are usually eliminated when the measurements are performed in parallel, that is, when the parameters are measured simultaneously. This result con rms the existence of physical systems with the ...

We define ordered sequential consistency (OSC), a generic criterion for concurrent objects. We show that OSC encompasses a range of criteria, from sequential consistency to linearizability, and captures the typical behavior of real-world coordination services, such as ZooKeeper. A straightforward composition of OSC objects is not necessarily OSC, e.g., a composition of sequentially consistent o...

We establish a characterization of almost P-matrices via sign non-reversal property. In this we are inspired by the analogous results for N-matrices. Next, interval hull two m×n matrices A=(aij) and B=(bij), denoted I(A,B), is collection all C∈Rn×n such that each cij convex combination aij bij. Using property, identify finite subset I(A,B) determines if in N-matrices/almost P-matrices. This pro...

Iconicity is a property that pervades the lexicon of many sign languages, including American Sign Language (ASL). Iconic signs exhibit a motivated, nonarbitrary mapping between the form of the sign and its meaning. We investigated whether iconicity enhances semantic priming effects for ASL and whether iconic signs are recognized more quickly than noniconic signs are (controlling for strength of...

a r t i c l e i n f o We introduce a new computational phonetic modeling framework for sign language (SL) recognition. This is based on dynamic–static statistical subunits and provides sequentiality in an unsupervised manner, without prior linguistic information. Subunit " sequentiality " refers to the decomposition of signs into two types of parts, varying and non-varying, that are sequentiall...

We investigate the Oja sign covariance matrix (Oja SCM) for estimating partial correlations in multivariate data. The Oja SCM estimates directly a multiple of the precision matrix and is based on the concept of Oja signs, which generalise the univariate sign function and obey some form of affine equivariance property. We compare it to the classical MLE as well as to estimates based on two alter...