Evolution and Trade-Off Dynamics of Functional Load

Functional load (FL) quantifies the contributions by phonological contrasts to distinctions made across the lexicon. Previous research has linked particularly low values of FL to sound change. Here, we broaden the scope of enquiry into FL to its evolution at higher values also. We apply phylogenetic methods to examine the diachronic evolution of FL across 90 languages of the Pama–Nyungan (PN) family of Australia. We find a high degree of phylogenetic signal in FL, indicating that FL values covary closely with genealogical structure across the family. Though phylogenetic signals have been reported for phonological structures, such as phonotactics, their detection in measures of phonological function is novel. We also find a significant, negative correlation between the FL of vowel length and of the following consonant—that is, a time-depth historical trade-off dynamic, which we relate to known allophony in modern PN languages and compensatory sound changes in their past. The findings reveal a historical dynamic, similar to transphonologization, which we characterize as a flow of contrastiveness between subsystems of the phonology. Recurring across a language family that spans a whole continent and many millennia of time depth, our findings provide one of the most compelling examples yet of Sapir’s ‘drift’ hypothesis of non-accidental parallel development in historically related languages.     

几类特定边界值条件下的常微分方程特征值问题

在文献[1]的基础上,借助于图形分析方法,讨论了几类特定边界值条件下的特征值问题.同时,本文对文献[1]中的错误结论作出了更正.本文给出的方法对讨论非线性边值问题的可解性提供了一种新的途径.     

压力陡降及容积加热条件下气—液两相系统瞬态分析

用一种解析与数值相结合的方法预测饱和液体在压力陡降及具有内热源条件下的瞬态响应。     

动脉中血液脉动流的一种分析方法

动脉中的血液流动被分解为平衡状态(相当于平均压定常流状态)和叠加在平衡状态上的周期脉动流,利用Fung的血管应变能密度函数分析血管壁在平衡状态下的应力-应变关系,确定相对于平衡状态血管作微小变形所对应的周向弹性模量和轴向弹性模量,并建立在脉动压力作用下相应的管壁运动方程,与线性化Navier-Stokes方程联立,求得血液流动速度和血管壁位移的分析表达式,详细讨论血管壁周向和轴向弹性性质差异对脉博波、血液脉动流特性以及血管壁运动的影响.     

Stochastic calculus for Markov processes associated with non-symmetric Dirichlet forms

Nakao’s stochastic integrals for continuous additive functionals of zero energy are extended from the symmetric Dirichlet forms setting to the non-symmetric Dirichlet forms setting.It? ’s formula in terms of the extended stochastic integrals is obtained.     

The Qualitative Study of Space Quadratic Systems with a First Integral

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Classification of Homomorphisms from C (X) to Simple C*-Algebras of Real Rank Zero

Abstract Let A be a unital simple C*-algebra of real zero, stable rank one, with weakly unperforated K ₀₍ A) and unique normalized quasi-trace τ, and let X be a compact metric space. We show that two monomorphisms φ, ψ : C(X)→A are approximately unitarily equivalent if and only if φ and ψ induce the same element in KL(C(X), A) and the two lineal functionals τ∘φ and τ∘ψ are equal. We also show that, with an injectivity condition, an almost multiplicative morphism from C(X) into A with vanishing KK-obstacle is close to a homomorphism. Research partially supported by NSF Grants DMS 93-01082 (H.L) and DMS-9401515(G.G). This work was reported by the first named author at West Coast Operator Algebras Seminar (Sept. 1995, Eugene, Oregon)     

Fractional diffusion-type equations with exponential and logarithmic differential operators

We deal with some extensions of the space-fractional diffusion equation, which is satisfied by the density of a stable process (see Mainardi et al. (2001)): the first equation considered here is obtained by adding an exponential differential (or shift) operator expressed in terms of the Riesz–Feller derivative. We prove that this produces a random component in the time-argument of the corresponding stable process, which is represented by the so-called Poisson process with drift. Analogously, if we add, to the space-fractional diffusion equation, a logarithmic differential operator involving the Riesz-derivative, we obtain, as a solution, the transition semigroup of a stable process subordinated by an independent gamma subordinator with drift. Finally, we show that an extension of the space-fractional diffusion equation, containing both the fractional shift operator and the Feller integral, is satisfied by the transition density of the process obtained by time-changing the stable process with an independent linear birth process with drift.