Group and Harmony

No effect of inter-group conflict on within-group harmony in non-human primates

It has been a longstanding assumption that the threat of extra-group conflict can promote the expression of socio-positive behavior and cohesion within animal groups. I conducted a comparative analysis on the effect of inter-group conflict (indexed by home range overlap) on within-group affiliation levels (indexed by time engaged in allogrooming) in a sample of 48 primate species. There was no ...

Helminths and harmony.

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Licensing and Consonantal Harmony

Vowel Harmony and Subsequentiality

Attested and ‘pathological’ vowel harmony patterns are studied in the context of subclasses of regular functions. The analysis suggests that the computational complexity of phonology can be reduced from regular to weakly deterministic.

Geometry and Harmony

A musical scale can be viewed as a subset of notes or pitches taken from a chromatic universe. Given integers (N,K) N > K we use particular integer partitions of N into K parts to construct distinguished sets, or scales. We show that a natural geometric realization of these sets have maximal area, so we call them maximal area sets. We then discuss properties of maximal area sets for the integer...