Previous theories of past-tense verb inflection have considered phonological and grammatical information to be the only relevant factors in the inflection process (e.g. Bybee & Moder, 1983; Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986; Kim, Pinker, Prince & Prasada, 1991). This paper presents three experiments that show that semantic information plays a decisive role in determining the inflection of both exist...

This chapter analyzes the rapid diffusion of the Internet across the United States over the past decade for both households and firms. We put the Internet’s diffusion into the context of economic diffusion theory where we consider costs and benefits on the demand and supply side. We also discuss several pictures of the Internet’s current physical presence using some of the main techniques for I...

This paper is an attempt to distinguish and discuss the Iranian (as distinct from the Turkish, Arabic and Islamic) elements in the present pattern of kinship and marriage practice in Persia in their historical context. This will entail also a discussion of what can be known of the pre-Islamic Iranian system. Disciplines Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences This journal article is avail...

the relation between economy and medicine had a long history since ancient times. supplying (providing) health care and the required drugs and medical equipments were the main concerns of the human communities even when they were at rather primitive stages of civilization. later, in developed civilizations, trade was added to the concepts of medical economy. in this study, various economic acti...

this article examines lord byron’s allusions to persian literature, history, culture and its ancient religion. the influence of persia on byron is considerable. byron was greatly influenced by orientalists such as sir william jones and their translations of eastern literatures. after examining byron’s allusions to persia, one realizes that byron’s attitude with regard to persia appears to be am...

met with in Birjand during eighteen months of hospital experience amongst the garrison of troops stationed there. Six of these cases were admitted to hospital during May and the last few days of April, 1919. One case occurred in the middle of J une, and the other two during the first three days of July, 1919. Case 1.?The first admission, a young Indian clerk of the Works Department, was on Apri...

persian scholars greatly influenced the advancement of medical sciences during the middle ages. as a review of the books surviving from that time shows, infectious diseases was one main field of interest for these scientists. among this group of health problems, rabies was specifically described by persian physicians, particularly by avicenna (980 – 1037 a.d.) in his famous “canon of medicine.”...