Filler driven parsing: A study of gap filling in dutch
Simple Dutch declaratives and questions were presented in a grammaticality judgment task to assess the validity of the “active filler strategy” (AFS). The AFS predicts that moved constituents, such as the initial constituent of a Dutch sentence, will be assigned to the leftmost possible gap. This results in better performance on subject-initial than on object-initial sentences. These predictions were confirmed, supporting a “filler” driven account of gap filling where gaps may be postulated before or without identifying a missing constituent in the input string. The results argue against the existence of a bottom-up parser in which the presence of a gap is detected only when lexically present local phrases have been parsed.
We consider the throughput performance of ARQ in interfering channels, where the signal of interest as well as the interferers are subject to independent distributed Nakagami-m block fading. The key contribution is the derivation of closedform expressions for the rate-maximized throughput. For this purpose, we employ the powerful parameterization approach from [1], allowing the problem to be solved exactly in a closedform. We also consider the scaled-power, and the interferencelimited, case.