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The consonantal realisation of the mora nasal in Osaka Japanese

The description of the pronunciation of the mora nasal in Standard Japanese varies considerably in the literature. The mora nasal is the syllable final nasal in Japanese (e.g. ‘n’ in Honda). Along with other elements, it came into the Japanese language with early loan-words from Chinese and extended the originally simpler phonotactics, which consisted of (C)V-syllables only. The variation in the d

Separating semantic and perceptual factors in the picture superiority effect

Memory for pictures is known to surpass memory for corresponding concrete words, an effect often attributed to the more distinctive perceptual form of pictures. A consequence of this view is that picture superiority would not survive a transformation in which only semantic, not perceptual, features were preserved from study to test, such as studying a picture of a horse and recognising the word "h

Optimica—An Extension of Modelica Supporting Dynamic Optimization

In this paper, an extension of Modelica, entitled Optimica, is presented. Optimica extends Modelica with language constructs that enable formulation of dynamic optimization problems based on Modelica models. There are several important design problems that can be addressed by means of dynamic optimization, in a wide range of domains. Examples include, minimum-time problems, parameter estimation pr

Impact of religion on understanding the world: development of tense and modality

This paper analyses an impact of religious practice on the development of the tense system, in particular the future tense. There have been rich typological studies on the tense, which reveal that a basic tense distinction is either past vs. non-past or past vs. present vs. future in most languages. From evolutionary/historical perspectives, the former case is older than the latter one, i.e. the f