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- Creator:
- Ishii, Toru, Golston, Chris, and Agbayani, Brian
- Description:
- This paper presents a prosodic movement analysis of "multiple scrambling" in Japanese. The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 argues that there are two kinds of scrambling, i.e. syntactic scrambling and prosodic scrambling. It is shown that the latter type of scrambling, which targets a prosodic constituent rather than a syntactic constituent, accommodates "multiple scrambling." Section 3 presents consequences of our analysis. Section 4 discusses the lack of locality effects with prosodic scrambling. Section 5 makes concluding remarks.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Chen, Jidong and Ai, Ruixi
- Description:
- This paper investigates the crosslinguistic influences on the learning of encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin based on the linguistic typology motionmand state change (Talmy 1985, 2000; Slobin 2004). We conducted an experiment of elicited descriptions of events of motion and state change with 10 adult native American-English learners of Mandarin. The results show that L2 adult Mandarin learners, similar to their L1 child counterparts (Chen, 2006, 2008), are sensitive to the Mandarin-way of encoding motion and state change. Overgeneralization errors reflect an overuse of the dominant way of lexicalizing motion and state change in the target language. The early learning of the target language pattern may be explained by Clark’s (1993, 2004) principles of learning constructional regularities and the inter-typological similarities between Mandarin and English.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Agbayani, Brian, Golston, Chris, and Henderer, Dasha
- Description:
- A basic assumption in generative grammar is that all movement is syntactic. This paper proposes that hyperbaton in Classical Greek, Latin and Colloquial Russian involves post-syntactic movement of prosodic constituents to prosodic edges (for a full treatment of Classical Greek, see Agbayani and Golston 2010). We are led to this conclusion by two major observations about hyperbaton: it moves prosodic constituents (ω and φ) while ignoring syntactic constituency, and it respects prosodic constraints such as the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) while ignoring syntactic constraints like the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) or the Left Branch Condition (LBC). We propose that this is just what we should find with prosodic movement: sensitivity to prosodic constituency and prosodic constraints and insensitivity to syntactic constituents and syntactic constraints.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Chen, Jidong
- Description:
- This study examines the emergent linguistic properties of the early production of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese. Longitudinal naturalist speech data of one Mandarin-learning child were coded and analyzed for their argument structure from age 1;3 to 3;4, the crucial age for early syntactic development. The results reveal early emergence and dominance of transitive verbs and the themeonly argument. Transitive verbs tend to have reduced number of arguments, whereas intransitive verbs tend to sustain one argument. The acquisition of thematic roles proceeds in the order of theme, agent, location, and recipient. The child’s production of verb argument structure reflects the typological features of Mandarin. It also suggests some language-general route in the acquisition of argument structure.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Luo, Yupeng and Wu, Wei
- Description:
- Emerging trends of green building and building information modelling (BIM) are driving profound transformation within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry nowadays. This paradigm shift has also set up new expectations on college students for their competencies in sustainability and BIM. While most higher education institutions have already incorporated such topics in their curricula, green building and BIM are typically taught separately. In this study, instructors from two classes adopted an integrated approach and designed a joint course project focusing on both sustainable design and BIM implementation. With BIM facilitation, students collaborated in teams working on artefacts and other tasks to accomplish predefined sustainable goals for a real building project. The project based learning provides an ideal framework to evaluate critical factors that influence the execution of BIM in green building project delivery. Formative and summative assessments of student learning outcomes in model communication, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving, and sustainability were conducted. The results of this study provide insight into innovative pedagogic design for sustainability and BIM education in the AEC curricula. The study also confirmed the effectiveness of project based learning in cultivating student competencies in critical thinking and problem-solving within a multidisciplinary project environment. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.519
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Urynowicz, Michael A., Dangi, Mohan B., and Gerow, Kenneth G.
- Description:
- Characterizing municipal solid waste (MSW) at the source of generation is a difficult task in large urban areas of developing countries. In order to understand this problem and devise comprehensive strategies for characterizing waste streams in Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), Nepal, this paper utilizes two- and three-stage cluster sampling of strata. A pilot study of 200 households formed the basis for a field study that was conducted using 336 households. The pilot study provided 161.2 g capita-1 day-1 of average household solid waste generation in KMC, composition of organic wastes was at 63%, recyclables were in decline, construction debris was on the rise, and hazardous wastes was at 0.4%. The field study found that household solid waste generation was at 497.3 g capita-1 day-1 and MSW at 0.66 kg capita-1 day-1. Organic wastes was the greatest component, while recyclables were on the rise along with hazardous wastes. The positive relationship between income and waste generation were held by all of the six strata in the pilot study and the first three strata in the field study; however the last stratum was an exception in the field study. The stratified generation of waste stream could be a better measure for future reformation of waste management practices in the KMC.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Wu, Wei, Liu, Fuyong, and Chen, Chaohe
- Description:
- Unified model-driven and intelligent collaborative design has gradually become a new paradigm in luxury yacht design as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data are gaining global momentum. This paper aims to initiate a research framework to systematically study feasibilities and challenges in developing and implementing this new paradigm. As the first step of this grand research endeavor, the paper investigates the state-of-the-art technological infrastructure to digitalization and automation in yacht production design, and conducts theoretic analysis of data integration and synergistic design collaboration as the backbone to this data-intensive, intelligent and collaborative design approach. The paper then conjectures the possible development trend of luxury yacht production in the intelligent design and manufacturing environment, and lays out a foundation to future research. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.01.243
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Ringwald, Frederick, Anderson, L. D., Faherty, Jacqueline K., and Alatalo, K.
- Description:
- During the "WISE at 5: Legacy and Prospects" conference in Pasadena, CA -- which ran from February 10 - 12, 2015 -- attendees were invited to engage in an interactive session exploring the future uses of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data. The 65 participants -- many of whom are extensive users of the data -- brainstormed the top questions still to be answered by the mission, as well as the complementary current and future datasets and additional processing of WISE/NEOWISE data that would aid in addressing these most important scientific questions. The results were mainly bifurcated between topics related to extragalactic studies (e.g. AGN, QSOs) and substellar mass objects. In summary, participants found that complementing WISE/NEOWISE data with cross-correlated multiwavelength surveys (e.g. SDSS, Pan-STARRS, LSST, Gaia, Euclid, etc.) would be highly beneficial for all future mission goals. Moreover, developing or implementing machine-learning tools to comb through and understand cross-correlated data was often mentioned for future uses. Finally, attendees agreed that additional processing of the data such as co-adding WISE and NEOWISE and extracting a multi-epoch photometric database and parallax and proper motion catalog would greatly improve the scientific results of the most important projects identified. In that respect, a project such as MaxWISE which would execute the most important additional processing and extraction as well as make the data and catalogs easily accessible via a public portal was deemed extremely important.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Wang, Xinchun
- Description:
- This study investigates beginning level adult Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners’ difficulties with Mandarin Chinese tones. Twenty CFL learners enrolled in a first semester CFL course in a U.S. university participated as speakers. Their productions of Mandarin phrases and sentences were judged by native Mandarin listeners for pronunciation and tone problems and were also rated by native Mandarin listeners. A post course survey questionnaire was also analyzed to investigate the learners’ learning experience and their perception of difficulties with Mandarin pronunciation and tones. Results suggest the speakers’ productions of Mandarin phrases and sentences were judged to be most problematic with tones. Learners also reported tones to be the most difficult aspect in learning Chinese at initial stage of learning
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: http://www.tal2012.org/papers/P2-07.pdf
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Chen, Jidong and Ai, Ruixi
- Description:
- This paper investigates the possible alternations between Dative Constructions and Direct Object Constructions in Chinese.1 It argues that the semantic constraint on such alternations as proposed by Pinker (1989), Gropen et al. (1989), and Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2008) has to be coupled with syntactic constraints associated with the subcategorizatio framework of the dative verb in the lexicon. While English dative verbs can subcategorize for theme, goal, or benefactive, potential dative verbs in Chinese can only subcategorize for theme or goal. The limited subcategorization framework of these dative verbs reveals that Chinese does have limited argument structure in the lexicon (contra Lin’s 2001).
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Na, Woonki, Wu, Wei, and Law, Deify
- Description:
- The increase in data center operating costs is driving innovation to improve their energy efficiency. Previous research has investigated computational and physical control intervention strategies to alleviate the competition between energy consumption and thermal performance in data center operation. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by proposing a cyber-physical systems (CPS) approach to innovatively integrate building information modeling (BIM) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). In the proposed framework, wireless sensors are deployed strategically to monitor thermal performance parameters in response to runtime server load distribution. Sensor data are collected and contextualized in reference to the building information model that captures the geometric and functional characteristics of the data center, which will be used as inputs of continuous simulations aiming to predict real-time thermal performance of server working environment. Comparing the simulation results against historical performance data via machine learning and data mining, facility managers can quickly pinpoint thermal hot zones and actuate intervention procedures to improve energy efficiency. This BIM-WSN integration also facilitates smarter power management by capping runtime power demand within peak power capacity of data centers and alerting power outage emergencies. This paper lays out the BIM-WSN integration framework, explains the working mechanism, and discusses the feasibility of implementation in future work. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.481
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Pun, Raymond
- Description:
- This paper presents the life and contributions of Ameen Rihani as a case study of public libraries’ historical efforts in supporting immigrants in America within IFLA’s context of “connections, collaboration and community.” Ameen Rihani (1876-1940) was a Lebanese-born Arab Christian who immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. One known fact was that he frequently visited the New York Public Library (NYPL) where he read many classics and studied English. Hailed as the father of Arab American literature, Rihani wrote The Book of Khalid, which is considered to be the first Arab American Novel in English. The Book of Khalid is a symbol of Rihani’s relationship with the United States and the NYPL, and reflects on the themes of political struggles and cultural challenges of immigration, urban life and authoritarianism that still exist today.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Chen, Jianhong and Wang, Xinchun
- Description:
- A group of native Mandarin speaking professors teaching in a U.S. university with a mean length of residence (LOR) in North America of 12 years was rated as highly accented as a group of native Mandarin speaking professors teaching English in China. Different speech activities did not appear to affect degree of accent. However, long excerpts of filtered speech may be used with caution for accent rating.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: http://www.icphs2007.de
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Christensen, Peter L., Hake, Kater, Ramming, David W., Broadbent, F.E., Andris, Harry, Luvisi, Donald A., McKenry, Michael V., Gubler, Walter D., and Peacock, William L.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Viticulture and Enology
- Creator:
- Kaushik, Ishan and Wu, Wei
- Description:
- Accommodating the rapidly increasing senior population in the U.S. is a grand effort that necessitates sustainable solutions to address its social, economic and environmental impacts. From the building industry's standpoint, design for sustainable aging implies creating the physical and service environment that is resilient and adaptable to the needs associated with the aging process. The professional community has responded with well-conceived strategies such as universal and sustainable aging design. In practice, there is an inherent challenge in traditional paper-based design communication when professionals and clients have a hard time to understand each other at the desired level. Recent technological advancement in 3D modeling applications, exemplified by the prevalence of building information modelling (BIM), has reinvigorated sustainable aging design practices. Meanwhile, serious gaming has been gaining recognition as valuable enhancement to academic learning and professional training by effectively engaging participants with meaningful and programmable visualization and interaction. This study proposed to create a unique framework that leverages the integration of BIM and game engine to streamline and contextualize design communication in sustainable aging projects. A prototype framework, Design for Sustainable Aging (DfSA), was developed and discussed in this paper. Essentially, DfSA transforms a static design model into a robust 3D gaming environment wherein design information is preserved while user-centered and experience-based interactions with model components are achieved. DfSA holds the promise to improve design communication by establishing a brand new platform for design presentation meanwhile providing an experiential instrument to elucidate the design intention. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.532
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Agbayani, Brian and Golston, Chris
- Description:
- Clitic conjunctions (in the ‘Host’ slot) are taken to be in situ (Agbayani & Golston 2010); we also propose this for quotative –wa(r), both occupying head-positions in the syntax. For clitic conjunctions, this is a conjunctive head which takes the second conjunct clause as its complement; for the quotative clitic, we propose that it is the highest functional head in the clause, marking its complement as quoted material. The late placement of the reflexive (slot 5) and verb-particles (slot 6) suggest that they are in fixed syntactic positions lower than the pronominal group (slots 2-4). We treat the reflexive –za and the verb particles as syntactic heads immediately dominating the verb’s projection.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Mudd, Simon M., Weinman, Beth, and Yoo, Kyungsoo
- Description:
- The time minerals spend in the weathering zone is crucial in determining soil biogeochemical cycles, solid state chemistry and soil texture. This length of time is closely related to erosion rates and can be modulated by sediment transport, mixing rates within the soil and the temporal evolution of erosion. Here we describe how time length can be approximated using geomorphic metrics and how topography reveals changing residence times of minerals within soils. We also show model simulations from a field site in California that can reproduce observed solid state geochemistry in the eroding portion of the landscape. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.033
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Huettig, Falk, Speed, Laura, Majid, Asifa, and Chen, Jidong
- Description:
- We conceptualize objects based on sensorimotor information gleaned from real-world experience. To what extent is conceptual information structured according to higher-level linguistic features? We investigate whether classifiers, a grammatical category, shape the conceptual representations of objects. In three experiments native Mandarin speakers (a classifier language) and native Dutch speakers (a language without classifiers) judged the similarity of a target object with four objects (presented as words or pictures). One object shared a classifier with the target, the other objects did not. Overall, the target object was judged as more similar to the object with the shared classifier than distractor objects in both Dutch and Mandarin speakers, with no difference between the two languages. Thus, even speakers of a non-classifier language are sensitive to object similarities underlying classifier systems, and using a classifier system does not exaggerate these similarities. This suggests that classifier systems reflect, rather than affect, conceptual structure
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
