For matroids representable over both GF 3] and GF 5], we provide a recipe for constructing an orientation.

In this paper, we propose a method to get the lower bounds of the 2-adic complexity of a sequence obtained from a periodic sequence over by either inserting or deleting symbols within one period. The results show the variation of the distribution of the 2-adic complexity becomes as increases. Particularly, we discuss the lower bounds when respectively. k (2) GF

An often-mentioned issue with Grammatical Evolution is that a small change in the genotype, through mutation or crossover, may completely change the meaning of all of the following genes. This paper analyses the crossover and mutation operations in GE, in particular examining the constructive or destructive nature of these operations when occurring at points throughout a genotype. The results w...

It is proved that the construction and enumeration of the number of balanced symmetric functions over GF (p) are equivalent to solving an equation system and enumerating the solutions. Furthermore, we give an lower bound on number of balanced symmetric functions over GF (p), and the lower bound provides best known results.

A class of decay modes sensitive to only one quark topology at leading GF order (annihilation of valence quarks through a W ) is described. No experimental observations, nor even upper limits, have been reported for these decays. This work presents a simpleminded (order-of-magnitude) first calculation of their branching fractions. Although rare, one of these modes (D+ s → ρ+γ) might already be ...

Research on grammaticalization has shown that grammatical morphemes are commonly derived from content words, notably from nouns and verbs. For instance, adpositions are frequently derived from body part terms (cf. Heine et al. 1991) and future tense auxiliaries are often based on motion verbs (cf. Bybee et al. 1994). Of course, not every grammatical marker can be traced back to a content word; ...

Title of dissertation: A PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTAL SYNTAX: FINDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCEPTABILITY AND GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE Jon Sprouse Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Howard Lasnik Department of Linguistics There has always been interest in the methodology of acceptability judgment collection, as well as the reliability of the results. It seems, though, th...

Children with primary language impairment (LI) show a deficit in processing different grammatical structures, verb inflections, and syntactically complex sentences among other things (Clahsen-Hansen 1997; Leonard et al. 1997). Cross-linguistic research has shown that the pattern of performance is language-specific. We examined grammatical sensitivity to word order and agreement violations in 50...

This paper describes the Omphalos Context-Free Grammar Learning Competition held as part of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference 2004. The competition was created in an effort to promote the development of new and better grammatical inference algorithms for context-free languages, to provide a forum for the comparison of different grammatical inference algorithms and to gain in...

Language students are most engaged while reading texts at an appropriate difficulty level. However, existing methods of evaluating text difficulty focus mainly on vocabulary and do not prioritize grammatical features, hence they do not work well for language learners with limited knowledge of grammar. In this paper, we introduce grammatical templates, the expert-identified units of grammar that...