We introduce a family of minimum description length models which explicitly utilizes phonetic features and captures long-range contextual rules that condition recurrent correspondences of sounds within a language family. We also provide an algorithm to learn a model from this family given a corpus of cognates, sets of genetically related words. Finally, we present an imputation procedure which ...

In this article I will show that the victimary theory of René Girard can make a decisive contribution to the interpretation and solution of etymological and semantic questions of the verb “mactare”, which is basic in the terminology related to the topic of the sacrifice. The victimary anthropology provides the hermeneutical key that allows us to consider the expressions “mactare Deum” and “mact...

Endophenotypes, measurable components unseen by the unaided eye along the pathway between disease and distal genotype, have emerged as an important concept in the study of complex neuropsychiatric diseases. An endophenotype may be neurophysiological, biochemical, endocrinological, neuroanatomical, cognitive, or neuropsychological (including configured self-report data) in nature. Endophenotypes...