Chelyabinsk Urban Vernacular Lexicon Peculiarities

The grammar of urban African American Vernacular English*

A Proposed Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis Approach for the Vernacular Algerian Arabic

Nowadays, sentiment analysis research is widely applied in a variety of applications such as marketing and politics. Several studies on the Arabic sentiment analysis have been carried out in recent years. These studies mainly focus on Modern Standard Arabic among which few studies have investigated the case of Arab dialects, in this case, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Khaliji. In this paper, we prop...

Self-assembled nanocrystals discovered in Chelyabinsk meteorite

Current interest in nanomaterials is focused mostly on artificial materials fabricated for various applications. However, naturally occurring nanocrystal arrays, like those recently found in the meteorite that fell near Chelyabinsk in Russia on 15 February, 2013, can provide some new insights into the nature of nanomaterials, including the conditions for their natural occurrence. Here we report...

Vernacular Programming: General Recursion

This paper provides a mathematical analysis of the relationship between vernacular and for-malised derivations of programs; in particular, when the vernacular derivations deploy general recursion. We introduce a calculus VPD to represent vernacular derivations and a constructive theory of operations and types, EOT , to represent formal derivations. We provide an intensional semantics for VPD wi...

The Vernacular Concept of Innateness

The proposal that the concept of innateness expresses a ‘folk biological’ theory of the ‘inner natures’ of organisms was tested by examining the response of biologically naive participants to a series of realistic scenarios concerning the development of birdsong. Our results explain the intuitive appeal of many of the existing philosophical analyses of the innateness concept. They simultaneousl...