How Languages are Learned

Just How Many Languages Are There?

Optimality Theory assumes the candidate set generated for any given input is of infinite cardinality. If all of the candidates in the candidate set were potential winners (optimal candidates under some ranking), then OT would have predicted an infinite typology— there would be infinitely many possible languages. However, Samek-Lodovici and Prince (1999) have shown that in standard OT (with only...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

How food preferences are learned: laboratory animal models.

Food selection represents a major challenge for omnivorous species. Faced with a variety of potential foodstuffs, many beneficial and some deleterious, the omnivore must decide which to eat and which to reject. The select-reject decision process involves an evaluation of the sensory characteristics of the foodstuff, particularly its flavour (i.e. taste, odour and texture). Innate predisposition...

How Useful Are Existing Monitoring Languages for Securing Android Apps?

The Android operating system is currently dominating the mobile device market in terms of penetration and growth rate. An important contributor to its success are a wealth of cheap and easy-to-install mobile applications, known as apps. Today, installing untrusted apps is the norm, though this comes with risks: malware is ubiquitous and can easily leak confidential and sensitive data. In this w...

Pnm-19: How Are Prenatal Screening Results after ART Success?

Background Down syndrome screening at first-trimester may cause a higher false positive rate in pregnant patients who have undergone assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Combining the second largest series of biophysical and biochemical tests in the first trimester of pregnancy after ART is mentioned in few studies. MaterialsAndMethods Ghisoni et al explored that NT measurement between ART...