The fact that in Romanian a direct object is sometimes morphologically marked by the particle pe and sometimes not is a long attested phenomenon. Diverse studies on Differential Object Marking (DOM) explained most occurrences of pe as a case marker by means of the features animacy, definiteness, and specificity. The only cases left unexplained are those in which a direct object realized as an u...

The fact that in Romanian a direct object is sometimes morphologically marked by the particle pe and sometimes not is a long attested phenomenon. Diverse studies on Differential Object Marking (DOM) explained most occurrences of pe as a case marker by means of the features animacy, definiteness, and specificity. The only cases left unexplained are those in which a direct object realized as an u...

Abstract— In this paper we propose a new paradigm for a Differential Service (DiffServ) network consisting of two-color marking at the edges of the network using token buckets coupled with differential treatment in the core. Using fluid-flow modelling, we present existence conditions for tokenbucket rates and differential marking probabilities at the core that result in all edges receiving at l...

In this paper we propose a new paradigm for a Differential Service (DiffServ) network consisting of two-color marking at the edges of the network using token buckets coupled with differential treatment in the core. Using fluid-flow modelling, we present existence conditions for tokenbucket rates and differential marking probabilities at the core that result in all edges receiving at least their...

In two visual word eye tracking studies, we investigated the influence of prosody and case marking on children’s and adults’ thematic role assignment. We assigned an SVO/ OVS-biasing (vs. neutral) prosodic contour to unambiguously case marked German subject-verb-object (SVO) and object-verb-subject (OVS) sentences respectively. Scenes depicted ambiguous action events (e.g., donkey-paints->eleph...

Abstract Differential object marking (DOM) is an area of vulnerability in adult heritage speakers. This study traces such to childhood by examining Turkish DOM child speakers the U.S and parental generation, who are main input providers. Twenty first-generation immigrants, 20 (aged 7–14) speakers, monolingual group including Turkish-speaking adults, 7–14-year-old 3–6-year-old children Turkey co...