Derivational sequences and harmony scales are collections of relationships between phonological structures that are used to pick out a grammatical surface representation: a surface representation is the final form in a sequence in derivational phonology; it is the optimal form on a scale of relative harmony in optimality phonology. The two approaches would match still further if traversing alon...

Combinations of metaheuristics to solve highly constrained combinatorial optimisation problems have recently become a promising research area. Some combinations emerge from integrating evolutionary algorithms and local based algorithms to strike the right balance between global exploration of the search region and local exploitation of promising regions. This study presents hybridization betwee...

This study investigates the distortion of visual colour harmony impression in case of different types of artificial changes among the perceptual attributes of test samples. A set of visual experiments were carried out to investigate the observer’s colour harmony impression as a function of artificial distortions. The visual colour harmony impression of a colour combination appearing harmonious ...

Phonological studies of ATR harmony have led to advances in autosegmental phonology, markedness theory, and locality. Nevertheless, many of our theoretical assumptions may have been based on misanalyzed data or non-rigorous typological assumptions. For example, detailed acoustic and/or articulatory studies have shown that transparent vowels are not always transparent (Gick et al 2006, Richart &...

Finnish vowel harmony rules require that if the vowel in the first syllable of a word belongs to one of two vowel sets, then all subsequent vowels in that word must belong either to the same set or to a neutral set. A harmony mismatch between two syllables containing vowels from the opposing sets thus signals a likely word boundary. We report five experiments showing that Finnish listeners can ...

Even adults with no formal music lessons have implicit musical knowledge acquired through exposure to the music of their culture. Two of these abilities are knowledge of key membership (which notes belong in a key) and harmony (chord progressions). Studies to date suggest that perception of harmony emerges around 5-6 years of age. Using simple tasks, we found that formal music training influenc...

The requirement of proof-theoretic harmony has played a pivotal role in a number of debates in the philosophy of logic. Different authors have attempted to precisify the notion in different ways. Among these, three proposals have been prominent in the literature: Harmony-as-conservative extension, Harmony-as-levelling procedure and Tennant’s Harmony-as-deductive equilibrium. In this paper I pro...

This article is an attempt to study the neglected linkages between culture and aggression. It does so by conceptualizing culture as a set of affordances and constraints that channel the expression of coercive means of social control by self and others. All cultural systems represent solutions to the problems associated with distributing desired material and social resources among its group memb...

Harmonious opinion is indispensable to harmonious society. Opinion can be used as the benchmark or wind vane to judge social stability and harmony. Understanding and capturing the essential mechanism of opinion formation and diffusion will provide help for early forecasting and macro-regulation. Society is an open complex giant system (OCGS), in which controlling social opinion is a more comple...

The first 100 years of experimental psychology were dominated by 2 major schools of thought: behaviorism and cognitive science. Here the authors consider the common philosophical commitment to determinism by both schools, and how the radical behaviorists' thesis of the determined nature of higher mental processes is being pursued today in social cognition research on automaticity. In harmony wi...