This paper represents a comprehensive study of English loanword usage in five diverse francophone neighborhoods in the national capital region of Canada. Twenty thousand loan tokens extracted from informal conversations with 120 speakers are analyzedfor degree oflinguistic integration into French and social assimilation by the francophone community. Attestation histories ofEnglish forms in Cana...

A text understanding system with learning capabilities is presented. New concepts are acquired by incorporating two kinds of evidence – knowledge about linguistic constructions in which unknown lexical items occur and knowledge about structural patterns in ontologies such that new concept descriptions can be compared with prior knowledge. On the basis of the quality of evidence gathered this wa...

The relationship between malic acid production and carbon assimilation was examined in the submerged aquatic Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant, Isoetes howellii Engelmann. Under natural conditions free-CO(2) level in the water was highest at 0600 hours and (14)CO(2) assimilation rates in I. howellii were also highest at this time. After 0900 hours there was a similar pattern in (a) rate ...

ness, inference and English place assimilation. Language and Cognitive Processes,10, 285–308. Mattys, S. L., & Jusczyk, P. W. (2001). Do infants segment words or recurring contiguous patterns? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27,644–655. Mitterer, H., Csepe, V., & Blomert, L. (2006a). The role of perceptual integration in the recognition of assim...

Judgments about individual group members are often colored by judgments about the entire group. Through such an assimilation effect, an individual norm violator from a positively evaluated group, for example an ingroup, can be expected to be evaluated less negatively than an outgroup norm violator. This hypothesis however contrasts with evidence that ingroup norm violators are often derogated c...

The impact of dark NH4+ and N03assimilation on photosynthetic light harvesting capability of the green alga Selenastrum minutum was monitored by chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis. When cells assimilated NH4+, they exhibited a large decline in the variable fluorescence/maximum fluorescence ratio, the fluorescence yield of photosystem 11 relative to that of photosystem I at 77 kelvin, and 02 ev...

Pathways of ammonia assimilation into glutamic acid in Bacillus azotofixans, a recently characterized nitrogen-fixing species of Bacillus, were investigated through observation by NMR spectroscopy of in vivo incorporation of 15N into glutamine and glutamic acid in the absence and presence of inhibitors of ammonia-assimilating enzymes, in combination with measurements of the specific activities ...

This paper shows that the Liverpool English dorsal fricative, derived through lenition of /k/, is subject to place articulation assimilation, driven by preceding vowel. similar vowel-driven aspects typical perseverative Dorsal Fricative Assimilation (a type palatalisation), as found, for example, in German ich-Laut~ach-Laut alternation, where (among other things) a front high or mid vowel follo...

While migration from low- to high-income countries is typically associated with weight gain, the obesity risks of migration from middle-income countries are less certain. In addition to changes in behaviours and cultural orientation upon migration, analyses of changes in environments are needed to explain post-migration risks for obesity. The present study examines the interaction between obesi...