Title of Document: THE EFFECTS OF PHONOLOGICAL NEIGHBORHOODS ON SPOKEN WORD RECOGNITION IN MANDARIN CHINESE Pei-Tzu Tsai, Master of Arts, 2007 Directed By: Professor Nan Bernstein Ratner Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Associate Professor Rochelle Newman Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Spoken word recognition is influenced by words similar to the target word with one phoneme...

The algorithms based on common neighbors metric to predict missing links in complex networks are very popular, but most of these algorithms do not account for missing links between nodes with no common neighbors. It is not accurate enough to reconstruct networks by using these methods in some cases especially when between nodes have less common neighbors. We proposed in this paper a new algorit...

The present study investigated whether the balance of neighborhood distribution (i.e., the way orthographic neighbors are spread across letter positions) influences visual word recognition. Three word conditions were compared. Word neighbors were either concentrated on one letter position (e.g.,nasse/basse-lasse-tasse-masse) or were unequally spread across two letter positions (e.g.,pelle/celle...

Neighboring territorial animals are viewed primarily as intense rivals, but there are also opportunities for cooperation among competitors. Many animals respond less aggressively toward neighbors than to strangers. This phenomenon, termed the ‘‘dear enemy’’ effect, should be stable only when the reduced aggression is reciprocal. Territory owners should use conditional strategies in territorial ...

the objective of this paper is to shed light on the islamic republic of iran's foreign policy toward the middle east in the period 1979-2007. iran's relations with pakistan and turkey within the framework of eco can be defined as friendly and neighborly since the revolution. iran- iraq ties until 2003 can only be termed as antagonistic and conflict-prone. in 1980-1988, the two neighbo...

This study has two main objectives: (1) to assess age variations in perceived support from neighbors among a nationally representative sample of adults aged 25 to 74 and (2) to examine the association between anticipated support from neighbors and physical functioning within a subsample of older adults. The findings suggest that anticipated support from neighbors is stronger among older adults,...

This paper analyses how neighbors’ income affect agents’ well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors’ income follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in the size of the area. We find a negative relationship between well-being a...

Previous studies (e.g., Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Wagenmakers, 2005) found that semantic classification performance is better for target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the same semantic class (e.g., living) compared to target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the opposite semantic class (e.g., nonliving). In the present study we investigated the contribu...

This paper presents kinetic data structures (KDS’s) for maintaining the Semi-Yao graph, all the nearest neighbors, and all the (1 + )-nearest neighbors of a set of moving points in R. Our technique provides the first KDS for the SemiYao graph in R. It generalizes and improves on the previous work on maintaining the Semi-Yao graph in R. Our KDS for all nearest neighbors is deterministic. The bes...