1 Here and throughout this chapter, we will avoid using (singular) indefinites as wide scope quantifiers. This is because the wide scope effect of indefinites can be obtained through a special pseudo-scoping mechanism – namely, choice functions (Kratzer, 1998, Reinhart, 1997) –, and not through the general truly scoping mechanisms that we are concerned with in this chapter. This pseudo-scoping ...

The exact solution is found for the Stefan problem of inwards freezing of a nonhomogeneous cylinder whose specific heat and latent heat depend upon the inverse square of the radial distance. The freezing time for the corresponding annular cylinder is found exactly. The validity of the pseudo-steady-state approximation for the solvable cylinder problem is verified explicitly. It is argued that t...

The idea of using articulatory representations for automatic speech recognition (ASR) continues to attract much attention in the speech community. Representations which are grouped under the label ‘‘articulatory’’ include articulatory parameters derived by means of acoustic-articulatory transformations (inverse filtering), direct physical measurements or classification scores for pseudo-articul...

We consider the theoretical and econometric properties of a recently proposed class of continuous time dynamic games with discrete choices. This class of models has computationally-desirable properties and includes widely-used entry, exit, and investment games that underlie many applications in empirical industrial organization. First, we establish a linear representation of the value functions...

The languages of finitary and infinitary logic over the alphabet of bounded lattices have proven to be of considerable use in the study of compacta. Significant among the sentences of these languages are the ones that are base free, those whose truth is unchanged when we move among the lattice bases of a compactum. In this paper we define syntactically the expansive sentences, and show each of ...

In this paper, we present a motion splicing technique for generating concurrent upper-body actions occurring simultaneously with the evolution of a lower-body locomotion sequence. Specifically, we show that a layered interpolation motion model generates upper-body poses while assigning different actions to each upper-body part. Hence, in the proposed motion splicing approach, it is possible to ...