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Characterization of laser propagation through turbulent media by quantifiers based on the wavelet transform: dynamic study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We analyze, within the wavelet theory framework, the wandering over a screen of the centroid of a laser beam after it has propagated through a time-changing laboratory-generated turbulence.
Abry   +24 more
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Relationships between Specified and Underspecified Quantification by the Theory of Acyclic Recursion

open access: yesAdvances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2016
The paper introduces a technique for representing quantifier relations that can have different scope order depending on context. The technique is demonstrated by classes of terms denoting relations, where each of the arguments of a relation term is bound
Roussanka LOUKANOVA
doaj   +1 more source

A stochastic approach for quantifying immigrant integration: the Spanish test case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We apply stochastic process theory to the analysis of immigrant integration. Using a unique and detailed data set from Spain, we study the relationship between local immigrant density and two social and two economic immigration quantifiers for the period
Agliari, Elena   +4 more
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'Cadas cosas se leen' y 'cadas fantasma hay en la red': La 'pluralización' del cuantificador 'cada' en español actual

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
El presente trabajo ofrece una primera descripción del comportamiento del cuantificador cadas –en relación a su forma estándar cada– cuando aparece antepuesto a un sustantivo plural, esto es, a partir de las propiedades formales del elemento que acompaña.
Enrique Pato
doaj   +1 more source

– “Mi dia due zucchine” / – “Vanno bene 800 grammi?” Quando i numeri non contano

open access: yesMediAzioni, 2023
The study is devoted to numerical approximations in Russian and Italian, in particular to the so-called “round” numbers, as main vehicles of semantic vagueness.
Marina di Filippo
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Quantifier focus in Serbian [PDF]

open access: yesStudii de Lingvistica, 2022
This paper presents a study on the interpretation of anaphoric reference to preceding quantified expressions in Serbian. Quantifiers not only differ in the proportions they denote but also, depending on their polarity, in their properties of assigning
Aleksandra Lappalainen, Fredrik Heinat
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Quantifiers in Natural Language: Efficient Communication and Degrees of Semantic Universals

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
While the languages of the world vary greatly, they exhibit systematic patterns, as well. Semantic universals are restrictions on the variation in meaning exhibit cross-linguistically (e.g., that, in all languages, expressions of a certain type can only ...
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
doaj   +1 more source

On the history of the indefinite pronoun altcineva ‘someone else’. Grammatical observations [PDF]

open access: yesDiacronia, 2018
Within the present study, we aim to look at the way in which the indefinite pronoun altcineva ‘someone else’ has come to being in Romanian. Its linguistic bearings are mainly discussed from a diachronic perspective, that can help us understand the ...
Adrian Chircu
doaj   +1 more source

Quantification in Bodo

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
This article explores the morphological composition of Bodo quantifiers. Based on their morphological features, Bodo quantifiers can be broadly categorized into core and morphologically derived complex quantifiers.
Brahma, Sansuma
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The comprehension and production of quantifiers in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Quantifiers form part of the discourse-internal linguistic devices that children need to access and produce narratives and other classroom discourse.
Joanine Nel, Frenette Southwood
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