A sensible assumption in psycholinguistics is that universal principles of optimal computation guide structural decisions made during sentence processing. This idea was questioned by the apparent cross-linguistic variation Relative Clause attachment: a wealth experimental results from nineties showed speakers Spanish, among other languages, more readily converged towards least resolution (i.e. ...

aim and background: complex nature of children`s affectionate problems requires assessment and usage of modern treatments. the present study aimed to investigate the effects of attachment-based therapy on depression symptoms in girl students of primary school who had attachment problems. methods and materials: this study was an empirical plan with pretest-posttest, follow up and control group. ...

Prepositional phrase attachment is a major cause of stru(:tural alnbiguity in natural language. Recent work has been dependent on corpus-based approaches to deal with this problem. However, corpus-based approaches suffer from the sparse-data problem. To cope with this problem, we introduce a hybrid method of integrating corpus-based approach with knowledge-based techniques, using a wide-variety...

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein-protein interaction map, as well as many natural and man-made networks, shares the scale-free topology. The preferential attachment model was suggested as a generic network evolution model that yields this universal topology. However, it is not clear that the model assumptions hold for the protein interaction network. Using a cross-genome comparison, we show...

Preference logic grammars (PLGs) are introduced in this paper as a declarative means of resolving ambiguity in logic grammars. Preference logic grammars can be thought as extensions of deenite clause grammars (DCGs) and deenite-clause translation grammars (DCTGs). Just as DCGs and DCTGs can be directly translated into logic programs, PLGs can be translated into preference logic programs (PLPs),...

The mechanism of preferential attachment underpins most recent social network formation models. Yet few authors attempt to check or quantify assumptions on this mechanism. We call generalized preferential attachment any kind of preference to interact with other agents with respect to any node property. We introduce tools for measuring empirically and characterizing comprehensively such phenomen...

Time-varying interactions of human fetal osteoblastic cells (hFOB 1.19) with materials of diverse chemical composition and surface energy, including biodegradable lactide/glycolide-based polymers, were assessed using a combination of assays sensitive to different phases of cell-substratum compatibility. Short-term (minutes to hours) cell-attachment-rate assays were used to measure the earliest ...

BACKGROUND While children form an attachment to their abusive caregiver, they are susceptible to mental illness and brain abnormalities. To understand this important clinical issue, we have developed a rat animal model of abusive attachment where odor paired with shock paradoxically produces an odor preference. Here, we extend this model to a seminaturalistic paradigm using a stressed, "abusive...

Using the structural priming paradigm, the present study explores predictions made by the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis by testing whether an implicit prosodic boundary generated from a silently read sentence influences attachment preference for a novel, subsequently read sentence. Results indicate that such priming does occur, although the patterns are highly dependent on individual differences ...