This is a case study of a child acquiring Taiwanese as her first language, attempting to model the phonological error patterns as well as output variation based on an optimality-theoretic (hereafter OT) analysis for her initial consonant acquisition. Driven by the fact that children usually do not produce one single output form that is identical to adults’, and the rule-based approach would fur...

Efficient Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Model-Free Reinforcement Learning in Centralized and Decentralized Sequential Environments by Miao Liu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University

A review of the genus Pteranabropsis Gorochov is presented. Five new species are described, namely Pteranabropsis tenchongensis Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov., Pteranabropsis infuscatus Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov., Pteranabropsis karnyi Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov., Pteranabropsis parallelus Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov. and Pteranabropsis tibenensis Wang, Liu, Li sp. nov.. A key to the species of Pteranabropsis is prov...

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