Since Pollock’s 1989 paper, much linguistic argumentation has been mounted in favor of the split inflection hypothesis. This paper presents evidence from a neuropsychological angle in support of this hypothesis. Given that agrammatic aphasic patients demonstrate a selective deficit in the syntactic domain, it is tempting to look for impairment patterns that pertain to issues debated in current ...

Limburg dialects of Dutch have two distinctive tonal contours on syllables with primary stress. These tones are traditionally called Schleifton (‘dragging tone’) and Stosston (‘bumping tone’), but here we will use the terms ‘level high tone’ and ‘falling tone’.1 The tones fall on the stressed syllable in the word, and serve to distinguish between minimal pairs. The following examples are from t...

It has been argued that the speed-density digram of pedestrian movement has an inflection point. This inflection point was found empirically in investigations of closed-loop single-file pedestrian movement. The reduced complexity of single-file movement does not only allow a higher precision for the evaluation of empirical data, but it occasionally also allows analytical considerations for mico...

A widespread assumption about the analysis of inflection features is that this task is to be performed by a tagger with an extended tagset. This typically leads to a POS precision drop due to the data-sparseness problem. In this paper we tackle this problem by addressing inflection tagging as a dedicated task, separated from that of POS tagging. More specifically, this paper describes and evalu...

To test whether there is a regional difference in the exercise pressor reflex within a given muscle, we investigated the relationship between the inflection points of cardiovascular responses and muscle oxygenation during exercise. Seven subjects performed incremental exercise, which consisted of incremental 30-s static knee extensions, each separated by 30 s of recovery. The workload started a...

the logistic, gompertz, richards and asymmetric logistic growth curve models were fitted to body weight data of local ghanaian chickens and french sasso t44 chickens. all four growth models provided good fit for each sex by genotype growth data with r2 values ranging from 86.7% to 96.7%. the rate constant parameter, k, ranged between 0.137 and 0.271 and were significantly different from zero fo...