... for you).–SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPAREAND CONTRAST –72■As you go through your day, compareandcontrast things around you. Compareand contrast, for exam-ple, your current job ... each of the things beingcompared and contrasted separately—first, all aspects of the gardener, then all aspects of the parent—ratherthan one aspect of the gardener, one of the parent;another of ... dormancy.–SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPAREAND CONTRAST –68 We spend a good deal of our lives comparing and contrasting things. Whenever we want to explainsomething, for example, we often use comparison...
... in hypotheses/grammars. Having noted the inadequacies of the previous approaches to language acquisition, we will pro- pose a theory that aims to meet language learn- ability andlanguage ... example of this is a population in contact with two languages (grammars), say, T1 and T2. Since Cl > 0 and c2 > 0, [1] entails that pl and P2 reach a stable equilibrium at the end oflanguage ... ignored in the for- mal studies oflanguage acquisition. In the rest of this section, I show that if this condition is taken se- riously, previous models oflanguageacquisition have difficulties...
... (2000). Grammatical acquisition: Inductive bias and coevolution oflanguageand the language acquisition device. Language, 76 (2), 245-296. Chomsky, N. (1981) Lectures on Government and Binding, ... Models ofLanguageAcquisition William Gregory Sakas Department of Computer Science PhD Programs in Linguistics and Computer Science Hunter College and The Graduate Center City University of ... need (or not) of syntactic parameters. Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Sakas, W.G. (2000) Ambiguity and the Computational Feasibility of Syntax Acquisition, ...
... Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Congress, and contractors with an interest in acquisition policy, processes, and reform. is research was sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of ... Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD/AT&L) and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, ... SECURITYPOPULATION AND AGINGPUBLIC SAFETYSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSUBSTANCE ABUSETERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITYTRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTUREWORKFORCE AND WORKPLACE Results by Statutory and Regulatory...
... their languages enable them to participate freely in the economic and social activities of their country, and how can their languages be promoted and developed to meet current needs and standards? ... national language of the country (Republic of Botswana 1985:8). So, despite the existence of other local languages, Setswana is the only indigenous language that is used as a medium of instruction ... participate in the discussions and activities of their education and economy. This involves the teaching of local languages, Setswana and English. By involving the local languages the program would...
... auditory hallucinosis. Thus these four types of symptoms exhibit variously the loss of the sense of possession, loudness and external projection, and the exact pattern of these three features determines ... of power and control to the people persecuting them or responsible for their hallucinations(Birchwood, 2003; Green et al., 2006). Negative appraisals of symptoms, of self and of others are of ... Psychosis and Human Nature. London: Penguin.Bentall, R. P. and Kinderman, P. (1999). Self-regulation, effect and psychosis: the role of socialcognition in paranoia and mania. In Handbook of Cognition...
... which is perhaps a way of giving, right up to and includ-ing the hand that gives. A languageof proximity older than the truth of being by its for-the-other, the whole marvel of giving. [pn41]Celan’s ... theessential being oflanguage is a saying that reveals itself as showing,as a letting be seen and heard. The disclosive character oflanguage isnot the result of human activity but of a prior letting ... well-known apothegm of the early Languageand alterity 191the transcendental unity of apperception (at41). Hegel, he argues,understands this dichotomization and tries to breach the real and the rational...
... range and the frequency of strategies use between learners of different levels, favoring professional linguists and learners with higher level of proficiency. Research in Asia, such as in Thailand ... foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve learners’ language competence and communicative ... importance of learning tend to use cognitive strategies that help them to understand and remember specific items of the language, whereas learners who emphasize the importance of using the language...
... booklets and choose the most relevant and informative. Patients uniformly chose the bookletthat reflected none of the principles of clear language. It had no illustrations or photographs and was ... patients’ use or disregard of print materials?A few studies noted that people understand and remember what is important to them, yet the kinds of information that health professionals believe isimportant ... alone do not help most peopleunderstand and remember the content. Some peopledo not and never will rely on print materials. In light of this, health professionals need to find other ways toprovide...
... The present theoriesof the transmission of light and sound; of the production of winds, and sun-spots, andof the method of development and dissemination of heat, are in point of fact, unphilosophical ... St., NEW YORK. Thesetheories throw new light upon the character and extent of the atmosphere of the moon and planets, and the consequent availability of those and other spheres for sustaining ... character and extent ofthese influences are scarcely imagined. In estimating them the attention of the profession is now mainly directed to thermometric and hygrometric changes and conditions. These...
... are three main innovations in this paper.First, we investigate the use of a variety of language models trained from text or speech corpora of vari-ous genres and sizes. The largest available language models ... groups of features operating on words and their edit status; the latter indicated by one of three possible flags:when the word is not part of a dis-fluency or E when it is part of the reparandum ... detec-tion, show that using written language data for mod-elling spoken language can improve performance.We turn to three other bodies of text and investi-gate the use ofthese corpora for our task,...
... capable of blocking the application of the strategy and forcing the correct analysis. These are the secondary channels of communication posited in the model of the SUS above. A theory of NSls ... temporal distribution of various types of information in speech were different. The architecture we propose is developed from a study of the task of speech, unde:standing and, furthermore, is ... kinds of interaction which occur between component.% that is. none of them are based on any theory of what kind of interactions and eomrnunication will be needed in a SUS. The designers of tile...
... Baxter, R.A. Blythe, W. Croft, and A.J. McK-ane. 2009. Modeling language change: An evalu-ation of Trudgill’s theory of the emergence of NewZealand English. Language Variation and Change,21(2):257–296.J. ... Models of Human Language Acquisition, pages 10–19. ACL.P. Niyogi and R.C. Berwick. 1995. The logical prob-lem oflanguage change. AI Memo 1516, MIT.P. Niyogi and R.C. Berwick. 1996. A language ... Niyogi, and M.A. Nowak. 2001.The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 209(1):43–60.F. Landsbergen. 2009. Cultural evolutionary modeling of patterns in language...
... Aist, and MarySwift. 2005. Using real-world reference to improvespoken language understanding. In AAAI Workshopon Spoken Language Understanding, pages 38–45.523 only been at the proof -of- concept ... Computational LinguisticsJoint Satisfaction of Syntactic and Pragmatic ConstraintsImproves Incremental Spoken Language UnderstandingAndreas PeldszusUniversity of PotsdamDepartment for Linguisticspeldszus@uni-potsdam.deOkko ... experiments was hand-constructed, inspired by a cursory inspection of the corpus and aiming to reach good coverage518 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association...