The use of space by predators in relation to their prey is a poorly understood aspect of predator-prey interactions. Classic theory suggests that predators should focus their efforts on areas of abundant prey, that is, prey hotspots, whereas game-theoretical models of predator and prey movement suggest that the distribution of predators should match that of their prey's resources. If, however, ...

THERE are no signs that the debate over the chronological data of Genesis 1 is abating. Among those who hold biblical views of the inspiration of the Scriptures certain interpretations of that chronology have, indeed, long been traditional. These may disagree as to the duration of the "days" of Genesis 1 but they have in common the opinion that the order of narration in that chapter coincides w...

The Millian view that the meaning of a proper name is simply its referent has long been popular among philosophers of language. It might even be deemed the orthodox view, despite its well-known difficulties. Fregean and Russellian alternatives, though widely discussed, are much less popular. The Predicate View has not even been taken seriously, at least until fairly recently, but finally, it is...

In the present article we give geometric generalizations of the estimates from Chapters 5,6,7 from [4], while extending their sharpness to new cases.

The generalized quantifier theory does not apply to Japanese quantifiers since: i) the number of NP argument is unspecified; and, ii) quantities are often expressed by predicative adjectives. The word order changes the interpretation, e.g., non-split quantifiers correspond to definite NPs with uniqueness and maximality conditions while split NPs are wide scope indefinites. This paper shows that...

Children as young as two use sentence structure to learn the meanings of verbs. We probed the generality of sensitivity to sentence structure by moving to a different semantic and syntactic domain, spatial prepositions. Twenty-six-month-olds used sentence structure to determine whether a new word was an object-category name (This is a corp!) or a spatial-relational term (This is acorp my box!)....

Selectional preferences (i.e., semantic restrictions on the realisation of predicate complements) are of great interest to research in Computational Linguistics, both from a lexicographic and from an applied (wrt data sparseness) perspective. This poster presents a comparison of three computational approaches to selectional preferences: (i) an intuitive distributional approach that uses second-...