Inflection-point inflation is an interesting possibility to realize a successful slow-roll inflation when inflation is driven by a single scalar field with its initial value below the Planck mass (φI . MP l). In order for a renormalization group (RG) improved effective λφ4 potential to develop an inflection-point, the quartic coupling λ(φ) must exhibit a minimum with an almost vanishing value i...

The paper investigates the memory-based learning (MBL) paradigm as a model of productive linguistic behavior in the domain of Dutch noun plural inflection. We first sketch the origin and background of the MBL approach, to then provide a short overview of Dutch noun plural inflection along with a detailed description of the use of MBL models for inflectional morphology. Results of a large number...

C be the normalization of Γ . Let g = (d− 1)(d− 2) 2 − δ; the genus of C. We identify smooth points of Γ with the corresponding points on C. In particular, if P is a smooth point on Γ then the Weierstrass gap sequence at P is considered with respect to C. A smooth point P ∈ Γ is called an (e − 2)-inflection point if i(Γ, T ;P ) = e ≥ 3 where T is the tangent line to Γ at P (cf. Brieskorn–Knörre...

Romanian phonology is shown to be subject to inflection dependence, a systematic restriction on phonological alternations. Inflection dependence means that segmental alternations are permitted in the derivatives of a lexeme only if certain inflected forms of that lexeme, its inflectional bases (Albright 2002), independently display the alternation. The study documents this pervasive constraint ...

The task of learning a natural language is an instance of inductive inference (making generalizations based on the past observations to predict the future ones) studied within several traditions in the sciences under such names as “machine learning,” “grammar induction,” and “computational learning theory.” In this chapter, I aim to introduce some of the concepts and approaches used in the form...

Because of its simple appearance, Japanese verb inflection has never been treated seriously. In this paper we reconsider traditional lexical treatments of Japanese verb inflection, and propose a new treatment of verb inflection which uses newlydevised segmenting units. We show that our proposed treatment minimizes the number of lexical entries and avoids useless segmentation. It requires 20 to ...