Let τr(x, x 0) be the time needed for a point x to enter for the first time in a ball Br(x 0) centered in x 0 , with small radius r. We construct a class of translations on the two torus having particular arithmetic properties (Liou-ville components with intertwined denominators of convergents) not satisfying a logarithm law, i.e. such that for generic x, x 0 lim inf r→0 log τr(x, x 0) − log r ...

Let τr(x, x 0) be the time needed for a point x to enter for the first time in a ball Br(x 0) centered in x 0 , with small radius r. We construct a class of translations on the two torus having particular arithmetic properties (Liou-ville components with intertwined denominators of convergents) not satisfying a logarithm law, i.e. such that for typical x, x 0 lim inf r→0 log τr(x, x 0) − log r ...

In both child and adult Cantonese, code-mixing is used productively. We focus on the insertion of English verbs into Cantonese utterances. Data from nine simultaneous bilingual children in the Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus are analyzed. Case studies show that the children’s rates of mixing closely match the rate of mixing in the parental input, and that different input conditions in...

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