In making an argument for the antiquity of language, based on comparative evidence, Dediu and Levinson (2013) express hope that some combinations of structural features will prove so conservative that they will allow deep linguistic reconstruction. I propose that the earliest stages of syntax/grammar as reconstructed in Progovac (2015a), based on a theoretical and data-driven linguistic analysi...

Conjunctions have always been a source of problems for natural language parsers. This paper shows how these problems may be circumvented using a rule.based, walt-and-see parsing strategy. A parser is presented which analyzes conjunction structures deterministically, and the specific rules it uses are described and illustrated. This parser appears to be faster for conjunctions than other parsers...

In This Issue In This Issue Conjunctions of junctions ike tight junctions in vertebrates, the ladder-like septate junctions found in most invertebrates act as barriers to epithelial permeability. A pair of papers L The ␣ subunit of a pump (the Na ϩ /K ϩ ATPase) is found at the barrier-forming septate junctions in flies. esides allowing ions to flow between adjacent cells, gap junctions selectiv...

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In this year's filtering track, we implemented a system called RELIEFS that tries to learn about the prediction capability of words or conjunctions of words for the relevance of documents. The novelty of the system resides in two main points. First, the features used in the prediction involve both : the implication D->Q (from document to query), and the reverse implication Q->D. This is differe...

BACKGROUND Color and motion serve as the prime examples of segregated processing in the visual brain, giving rise to the question how color-motion conjunctions are represented. This problem is also known as the "binding problem." RESULTS Human volunteers viewed visual displays containing colored dots rotating around the center. The dots could be red or green and rotate clockwise or counterclo...

Remembering complex events requires binding features within unified objects (conjunctions) and holding associations between objects (relations). Recent studies suggest that the two functions dissociate in long-term memory (LTM). Less is known about their functional organization in short-term memory (STM). The present study investigated this issue in patient AE affected by a stroke which caused ...

We study online learning in Boolean domains using kernels which capture feature expansions equivalent to using conjunctions over basic features. We demonstrate a tradeoff between the computational efficiency with which these kernels can be computed and the generalization ability of the resulting classifier. We first describe several kernel functions which capture either limited forms of conjunc...

This paper explores qoşma, postposition in modern Azeri and its Turkish counterpart. According to the common view on Azeri, postposition, particle, conjunctions, modals, interjection are listed under minor parts of speech. In grammar, there is a tendency categorize all speech single heading edat (particle), which results confusion about definition function particle. Words like particles conjunc...

The design of neural networks that are able to efficiently detect conjunctions of features is an important open challenge. We develop a feed-forward spiking neural network that requires a constant number of neurons for detecting a conjunction irrespective of the size of the retinal input field, and for up to four simultaneously present feature-conjunctions.