Although it has been argued that visual attention and the dynamics of binocular rivalry are closely linked, strong evidence for this proposition is still lacking. Here, we investigate how perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry are affected by spatial attention by employing a cuing paradigm. We show a tight link between the occurrence of perceptual alternations and the spatiotemporal p...

Phonological alternations often serve to modify forms so that they respect a phonotactic restriction that applies across the language. For example, the voicing alternation in the English plural produces word-final sequences that respect the general ban against a voiceless obstruent followed by a voiced one. Since Chomsky and Halle [1], it has been assumed that an adequate theory of phonology sh...

A mainstay of the debates concerning the phonology-syntax interface are phenomena of external sandhi, that is, phonological alternations whose conditioning environment is across a word boundary. 1A recurrent problem in this area is the fact that it is usually impossible to motivate a purely syntactic account of such alternations. This has led to the widespread consensus that the relation betwee...

German nouns may alternate from singular to plural in two different ways. Some singular forms that end in a voiceless obstruent have a plural in which this obstruent is voiced. Another alternation concerns the vowel. Some singular forms with a back vowel have a plural form in which this back vowel is front. For each noun it has to be established individually whether it alternates or not. The vo...

The paper shows how the verbal lexicon can be formalised in a way that captures and exploits generalisations about the alternation behaviour of verb classes. An alternation is a pattern in which a number of words share the same relationship between • a pair of senses. The alternations captured are ones where the different senses specify different relationships between syntactic complements and ...

Several recent studies have examined the acquisition of morphophonological alternations, with apparently conflicting findings. Production and comprehension studies with both real and nonce words suggest that 31⁄2 year old Dutch-learning children do not yet have productive knowledge of the morphophonological voicing alternation (Zamuner, Kerkhoff, Fikkert, and Westrek 2005; Zamuner, Kerkhoff, an...

Under the term grammaticalized alternations, we understand changes in valency frames of verbs corresponding to different surface syntactic structures of the same lexical unit of a verb. Czech grammaticalized alternations are expressed either (i) by morphological means (diatheses), or (ii) by syntactic means (reciprocity). These changes are limited to changes in morphemic form(s) of valency comp...

The study of verbal diathesis alternations over the past two decades has produced a wealth of empirical generalizations as well as many theoretical insights (see, among others, Bresnan & Kanerva 1989, Levin & Rappaport 1991, 1995, Hale & Keyser 2002, Reinhart 2002, Borer 2005). In comparison, surprisingly little work has been done during that period on diathesis alternations in adjectives. This...

This paper studies the Markov perfect equilibrium outcomes of a dynamic game of electoral competition between two policy-motivated parties. I model incumbent policy persistence: parties commit to implement a policy for their full tenure in office, and hence in any election only the opposition party renews its platform. In equilibrium, parties alternate in power and policies converge to symmetri...