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How does language cut a big semantic cake? [PDF]
The act of categorization is undertaken every time we use a word to refer to two or more different entities. Although different, these entities are regarded as the same.
Dilparić Branislava
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Perfect and imperfect states [PDF]
Early Greek ethics embodied in Cretan and Spartan mores, served as a model for Plato`s political theory. Plato theorized the contents of early Greek ethics, aspiring to justify and revitalize the fundamental principles of a traditional view of the ...
Nikitović Aleksandar
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An application of decision theory for the evaluation of software prototypes [PDF]
Abstract There is a need to quantify management decision making in software development. To this end, this article presents an application of concepts from economic decision theory to an aspect of this problem currently under study by many in the software engineering community—how to prototype a design and evaluate the effectiveness of this prototype.
Sergio R. Cárdenas +2 more
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The article discusses the applicability of prototype theory and the theoiy of semantic fields for the analysis of category structure. The analysed empirical material consisted of German lexemes denoting Headgear.
Stefaniuk Marcela
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Canonical Field Theory—A Prototype Example
The equations of a field may be put into a standard “Lagrangian” form from which several conservation laws follow directly. As an illustrative example, a string free to vibrate in two directions is investigated; this example clearly illustrates the outstanding features of the canonical theory, while avoiding the notational and physical complications ...
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Similarity Theory of Withdrawn Water Temperature Experiment
Selective withdrawal from a thermal stratified reservoir has been widely utilized in managing reservoir water withdrawal. Besides theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, model test was also necessary in studying the temperature of withdrawn water.
Yunpeng Han, Xueping Gao
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The Category of Verb from Prototypical Point of View on the Basis of Givon’s Semantic Criteria: Each Verb as a Category [PDF]
Prototype theory inspired by cognitive framework has offered a new definition of categories and their members. According to the prototype theory “prototypes” are the best examples of each category and are more central than the other members, while less ...
Fatemeh Hasani Jalilian, Farideh Haghbin
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Adjectivalization and Deadjectivalization in Persian:A Typological Prototype Approach [PDF]
Using a descriptive-analytical method, this research investigates adjectivalization and deadjectivalization in Persian within the framework of the Typological Prototype Theory. The research specifically aims at describing and explaining the two phenomena
Amin Karimi +2 more
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The scale model is an effective method to research the performance of quayside container crane (QCC) under the seismic condition, but the model distortion usually exists in the similar design process which leads to the incomplete similarity between the ...
Zhe Li, Fangping Ye, Shiying Wu
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Prototype theory and emotion semantic change.
An elaborate repertoire of emotions is one feature that dis-tinguishes humans from animals. Language offers a criticalform of emotion expression. However, it is unclear whetherthe meaning of an emotion word remains stable, and what fac-tors may underlie changes in emotion meaning.
Xu, Aotao, Stellar, Jennifer, Xu, Yang
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