Agreement in Thadou

Prosodic issues in synthesising thadou, a tibeto-burman tone language

The objective of the present analysis is to present linguistic constraints on the phonetic realisation of lexical tone which are relevant for the choice of a speech synthesis development strategy for a specific type of tone language. The selected case is Thadou (Tibeto-Burman), which has lexical and morphosyntactic tone as well as phonetic tone displacement. The last two constraint types differ...

Traditional Reproductive Health Care Practices and Knowledge A Case of the Thadou of Manipur

The paper broadly deals with the traditional knowledge regarding reproductive health care among the Thadou, a tribe of Manipur. Thadous believe in traditional method of care and treatment for reproductive illness like vaginal discharge and other “diseases” during pregnancy and post partum. Certain eatable items are restricted during pregnancy and breast feeding period. Various plants and plant ...

Subject Agreement, Object Agreement and Specificity in Swahili

Morpho-Syntactic Agreement and Index Agreement in Dutch NPs

For the treatment of agreement in Dutch NPs I adopt a distinction, familiar from HPSG, between morphosyntactic agreement and index agreement. In order to determine their respective roles, I make another distinction, proposed in Van Eynde (2003), between marked and unmarked nominals. Employing these distinctions, I will demonstrate that the combination of prenominal adjectives and determiners wi...

On Key Agreement and Conference Key Agreement

An attack is demonstrated on a previously proposed class of key agreement protocols. Analysis of the attack reveals that a small change in the construction of the protocols is suucient to prevent the attack. The insight gained allows a generalisation of the class to a new design for conference key agreement protocols.