The idea that incompatibilism is intuitive is one of the key motivations for incompatibilism. Not surprisingly, then, philosophers who defend incompatibilism often claim that incompatibilism is the natural, commonsense view about free will and moral responsibility (e.g., Pereboom 2001, Kane 1999, Strawson 1986). This claim has received some support from empirical studies that indicate that when...

One of the major tasks of the quantitative semantic analysis is to disclose complex relations of sememes in communication, i.e. on the basis of their associations in the frame of syntactic structures. With the aid of computer it is possible to prepare a corpus of language material giving the possibility to quantify /I./ semantics of syntactic functions, /2./ lexical meanings, /3./ meanings of m...

INTRODUCTION • Human communication increasingly relies on technology • Text based communication (TBC) lacks communicative richness, as compared to face to communication (Harris & Paradice, 2007) • However, typographic cues may add informativeness by mimicking tone of voice in TBC (Riordan & Kreuz, 2010) • Gunraj et al. (2016) found one word response with ending period is perceived as rude/ insi...

A number of theoretical models compete in explaining initial preferences in human sentence processing, each focusing on different linguistic parameters and applying different sets of principles in order to predict processing effort. Only recently, models have been proposed that base their predictions on frequency information (Mitchell & Cuetos 1991), or probability values derived from relative ...

The article is focused on the analysis of the frequency structure of texts. Specifically, a geometric characterization of the rank-frequency sequence, which is determined by relationships among the highest word frequency, a number of particular word forms in a text, and the so-called h-point, is analysed. We observe that the geometric characterization of the rank-frequency sequence correlates s...

crucial for the survival of agriculture in northeastern Colorado. Improper N and irrigation management are major factors contribThe relationships of corn yield and nitrate leaching uting to water quality and shortage problems in the Great Plains. with irrigation, N fertilization, and plant population This study was conducted on the Irrigation Research Farm in Yuma, have been extensively investi...

A new word usage measure is proposed. It is based on psychophysical relations and allows to reveal words by their degree of "importance" for making basic educational dictionaries. It is accepted to rank words by their absolute (or proportional) frequency, when making a frequency list of text words. The researchers, feeling the imperfection of frequency as an unconditional indicator of word "imp...

An investigation of phonological phenomena involving glottal stops and vowels shows that the presence of glottal stops influences the quality of the surrounding vowels: the vowels are lowered (Rose, 1996). For example, in Klallam (a Coast Salish language), non-low vowels /i u ə/ are lowered to [ε o a], respectively, when followed by [ʔ]: /p’íх w ŋ/ is pronounced as [p’εʔх w ŋ] ‘overflow’/‘overf...

We study the variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts. Our findings indicate that the standard deviation of a word’s frequency across texts depends on its average frequency according to a power lawwith exponent 2 < α < 1, which shows that the rarer words have a relatively larger degree of frequency volatility (that is, higher ‘‘burstiness’’). A latent factor model has been estima...

The Authority and Ranking Effects play a key role in data fusion. The former refers to the fact that the potential relevance of a document increases exponentially as the number of systems retrieving it increases and the latter to the phenomena that documents higher up in ranked lists and found by more systems are more likely to be relevant. Data fusion methods commonly use all the documents ret...