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Demonstrative Paradigms in English and Ibibio: Some Contrastive Observations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper describes demonstrative paradigms in English and Ibibio based on their syntactic and semantic behaviours, especially with English as the language of education in Nigeria.
Ekah, Maria-Helen
core   +1 more source

Speech Biomarkers From Smartphone Calls Track Progression in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective This 24‐month longitudinal study involving isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD), early‐stage Parkinson's disease (PD), and matched healthy control subjects aimed to assess whether acoustic speech features from real‐world smartphone calls provide passive progressive biomarkers in synucleinopathies.
Michal Šimek   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease Uniquely Affects Sulcal Depths

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Though it is widely known that tau deposition affects brain structure, the precise localization of these effects is poorly understood, especially in relation to gyral and sulcal anatomy. We investigated whether tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) preferentially affects sulci, and particularly sulcal depths.
Samira A. Maboudian   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

El aprendizaje de los conceptos genéricos entre niños quechuahablantes monolingües

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2013
Generic expressions play a critical role in the conceptual development of monolingual Southern Peru Quechua children. This article discusses different theories about aquisition and conceptual development of young children and makes a characterization of ...
Bruce Mannheim, Susan A. Gelman
doaj   +1 more source

A Symbolic Approach to Reasoning with Linguistic Quantifiers [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This paper investigates the possibility of performing automated reasoning in probabilistic logic when probabilities are expressed by means of linguistic quantifiers. Each linguistic term is expressed as a prescribed interval of proportions. Then instead of propagating numbers, qualitative terms are propagated in accordance with the numerical ...
Dubois, Didier   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Vagueness as Cost Reduction : An Empirical Test [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This work was funded in part by an EPSRC Platform Grant awarded to the NLG group at Aberdeen.Publisher ...
Green, Matthew James, van Deemter, Kees
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Incremental Interpretation: Applications, Theory, and Relationship to Dynamic Semantics

open access: yes, 1994
Why should computers interpret language incrementally? In recent years psycholinguistic evidence for incremental interpretation has become more and more compelling, suggesting that humans perform semantic interpretation before constituent boundaries ...
Cooper, Robin, Milward, David
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Specificity distinction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is concerned with semantic noun phrase typology, focusing on the question of how to draw fine-grained distinctions necessary for an accurate account of natural language phenomena.
Farkas, Donka F.
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Introduction—What is Epistemic Contextualism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduces contextualism about knowledge ascriptions, and provides a brief summary of the contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Epistemic ...
Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins
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The partition semantics of questions, syntactically

open access: yes, 2002
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition theory. Two central notions in this theory are entailment between questions
Cate, Balder D. ten, Shan, Chung-chieh
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