food labels play an important role in well being of consumers. as a part of it, date marking is a valid guide to shelf life of a food. the present study was done in 2010, in smart food center, wollongong; new south wales, australia to determine if the residents are familiar with date marking of food products. data was accumulated by either interview guide or questionnaire method. basic unselect...

This article presents an alternative explanation for the Anaphor-Agreement effect, the generalisation that anaphors do not occur in syntactic position construed with agreement (cf. Rizzi 1990). I propose that this effect finds its explanation in the theory of argument marking. Arguments must be marked by either case or agreement for reasons of LF visibility (cf. Chomsky 1986). However, when an ...

Across languages subject-verb agreement errors have been established when subjects are producing complex (NP PP) noun-phrases (see Bock, 1995, for an overview). Very recently, Haskell & MacDonalds (2002) proposed a locality-based principle, the principle of proximity, to explain a variety of agreement errors in production. They base they argument partly on preferences in verb number marking in ...

Abstract This article describes the gender system of Longuda. Longuda class marking is alliterative and does not distinguish between nominal form agreement marking. While it thus appears to be a prototypical example traditional Niger-Congo “noun-class” system, this identity encoding makes look morpho-syntactic rather than lexical. points formerly independent status exponents classification, whi...

A common view of finiteness, particularly prevalent in the transformational grammar traditions, associates it with the marking of tense/aspect/mood and subject agreement on verbs. However, since nominal predicates as well as verbal predicates may be temporally located (e.g. ex-soldier, former friend, future President), there is no reason in principle why nominal predicates might not bear TAM ma...

The utterance planning processes allowing speakers to produce agreement between subjects and verbs (the catspl arepl asleep) have been the topic of extensive study as a window into language production mechanisms. A key question has been the extent to which agreement processing is influenced by semantic and phonological factors. Most prior studies have found limited effects of non-syntactic, par...

Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) was used to investigate listeners’ perceptions of prosody in reading by native and nonnative English speakers. RPT offers a language-independent tool to access listeners’ holistic understanding of prosody. Listeners hear an audio recording of speech while following along on an orthographic, unpunctuated transcript of the recording. They indicate their perceptio...

Low skid resistance of road marking paint is one of the major issues in the safety of vehicle drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians when traveling on the city streets. Among the variety of marking paint, two-component paint is widely used at intersections and roundabouts. Therefore, the paint used should have adequate skid resistance. The object of this study was to evaluat...

Laser marking is one of the well-developed technologies of materials processing. Laser marking is the best and most applied permanent marking method. The present research papers deals with the artificial neural network (ANN) and the response surface methodology (RSM) based mathematical modelling and also an optimization analysis on marking characteristics i.e., mark width, mark depth and mark i...