The synchronization delay of an N-state local automaton is known to be O(N 2). It has been conjectured by S. Kim, R. McNaughton and R. McCloskey that, for deterministic local automata, it is O(N 1:5) on a two-letter alphabet and no less than O(N 2) in the general case. We prove that this conjecture is false and that the synchronization delay is (N 2) in all cases.

In a recent article (McCloskey & Zaragoza, 1985) we presented arguments and evidence in support of the contention that misleading postevent information does not impair memory for the original event. In their comment on our article, Loftus, Schooler, & Wagenaar (1985) raise several objections to our conclusions. In this reply we consider these objections, suggesting that they present no serious ...

Synopsis: In this paper, we provide novel data on sluicing in the Khalkha dialect of Mongolian, and show that wh-remnants and their correlates do not have to match in case. We then argue that Mongolian sluicing is best analyzed by the LF-copy approach (Chung, Ladusaw & McCloskey 1995), where a sluiced clause consists of a wh-remnant base-generated in [Spec, CP] and an empty TP into which the an...

I want to respond here in depth to just one of the criticisms of my book, A Farewel to Alms, raised at the SSHA meeting session. This was the assertion by Deirdre McCloskey, among others, that the processes of “survival of the richest” which were identified there could not have had any significant effect on the culture or genetics of societies like England by 1800 (this same criticism was made ...

The focus of this study is to examine and define the issue of elder abuse in the Aboriginal population in Canada. In this context, the term ‘elder’ will refer to Aboriginal persons who are fifty-five years of age or older as opposed to 65 years of age, which is Canada’s guideline to determine an older person or senior. This term should not be mistaken with ‘Elder,’ which is often used in the Ab...

Recent work in the Minimalist Program has made use of the Extended Projection Principle as a licensing feature for subject nominals explicitly separate from abstract nominative Case (Chomsky 1995). Both features are checked in Chomsky's system by the Tense head. Chomsky adopts the case system for licensing PRO proposed in Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, whereby PRO receives null case from an appropria...

In the generative paradigm, there are at least two schools of thought about the derivation of VSO order via verb raising. One holds that the verb raises to the highest complementizer position (C°) of the matrix clause, in a manner familiar from den Besten’s (1981) analysis of verb second languages like German and Dutch. The other holds that the verb is not in C° at all; rather it appears on the...

Tradicionalmente, la historia del pensamiento económico ha relegado a las mujeres y sus aportaciones un lugar marginal desde el despertar de economía como disciplina autónoma. El presente trabajo va en contra esta tendencia al recuperar notable trayectoria una pioneras economía, Jane Marcet (1769-1858), contrastando escritos conlas posibilidades hacer “buena economía”desde diferentes enfoques, ...

Recent work in the Minimalist Program has made use of the Extended Projection Principle as a licensing feature for subject nominals explicitly separate from abstract nominative Case (Chomsky 1995). Both features are checked in Chomsky's system by the Tense head. Chomsky adopts the case system for licensing PRO proposed in Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, whereby PRO receives null case from an appropria...

Let (X n) be a residual allocation model with i.i.d. residual fractions U n. For a random variable W with values in 0; 1] independent of (X n) we deene another sequence (Y n) by setting Under minor regularity assumptions we show that (X n) and (Y n) have the same probability law if and only if this law is a GEM distribution. In this case, the distribution of W and the U n 's is beta (1;) for so...