on generalization of prime submodules

let r be a commutative ring with identity and m be a unitary r-module. let : s(m) −! s(m) [ {;} be a function, where s(m) is the set of submodules ofm. suppose n  2 is a positive integer. a proper submodule p of m is called(n − 1, n) − -prime, if whenever a1, . . . , an−1 2 r and x 2 m and a1 . . . an−1x 2p(p), then there exists i 2 {1, . . . , n − 1} such that a1 . . . ai−1ai+1 . . . an−1x 2 por a1 . . . an−1 2 (p : m). in this paper we study (n − 1, n) − -prime submodules(n  2). a number of results concerning (n−1, n)−-prime submodules are given.modules with the property that for some , every proper submodule is (n−1, n)−-prime, are characterized and we show that under some assumptions (n−1, n)-primesubmodules and (n − 1, n) − m-prime submodules coincide (n,m  2).