According to the traditional phonological literature, regressive voicing assimilation in obstruent clusters is an obligatory categorical, completely neutralising process in Hungarian, as long as no major prosodic boundary signalised by a longer pause intervenes between the target and the trigger. In the present experiment, the effect of minor prosodic boundaries, i.e. accentual phrases (AP) on ...

2 P.J. SMITH ET AL. be expected from coupled data assimilation. When compared to uncoupled initialisation, coupled assimilation is able to produce more balanced initial analysis fields, thus reducing initialisation shock and its impact on the subsequent forecast. Single observation experiments demonstrate how coupled assimilation systems are able to pass information between the atmosphere and o...

Problems emerging from previous analyses of epenthesis in Japanese verbal endings are discussed and a crucial relationship between epenthesis and assimilation is argued. The focus is on the occurrence of /i/-epenthesis with certain root-final consonants. The analysis, which incorporates the view that assimilation is accomplished by means of autosegmental spreading, illustrate* that epenthesis c...

Unlike the typical design of data assimilation for numerical weather forecasting, initial value optimisation by chemical data assimilation for air quality simulations were often considered as unessential, as errors in initial values were regarded as of vanishing impact. Rather, air surface interactions, especially emissions are a driving forcing factor, while, at the same time, of insufficient ...

Atlanto-occipital assimilation is one of the most common osseous anomalies observed at the craniocervical junction. Most patients with atlas assimilation show no symptom, but some have neurological problems such as myelopathy that may require surgical treatment. Occipitocervical fusion may be required if atlato-occipital assimilation is accompanied by occipito-axial instability. However, in cas...

In this paper a LVCSR system with implementation of the Czech voice assimilation phenomenon is proposed. The recognition system uses lexical trees and a bigram language model. The first part of this article is focused on voice assimilation phenomenon description, triphone lexical tree construction, and voice assimilation impact on LVCSR system performance. The second part outlines lexical tree ...

Under high light, the rates of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation can be influenced by reductant consumed by both foliar nitrate assimilation and mitochondrial alternative electron transport (mAET). Additionally, nitrate assimilation is dependent on reductant and carbon skeletons generated from both the chloroplast and mitochondria. However, it remains unclear how nitrate assimilation and mAET coo...

This study investigated place of articulation assimilation in English and Japanese using electropalatography. Three speakers of each language were given nonwords and were asked to produce a novel word blend. These blends were constructed in such a way as to result in consonant clusters with different places of articulation, and could therefore potentially assimilate. Patterns of assimilations f...

To evaluate leaf carbon balance during rapid pod-fill in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill), measurements were made of CO(2) assimilation at mid-day and changes in specific leaf weight, starch, and sucrose concentrations over a 9-hour interval. Assimilate export was estimated from CO(2) assimilation and leaf dry matter accumulation. Chamber-grown ;Amsoy 71' and ;Wells' plants were subjected on ...

This study reviews recent progress on soil moisture data assimilation. Data assimilation is a process of merging observations with a system dynamic model to provide an improved estimate of the states of the environment. The application of data assimilation in hydrology is relatively new, however, rapid progress has been made in the last decade or so with the available remotely sensed soil moist...