ECG for all patients in the PACU: Some say, why? I say, why not?

Renal replacement therapy: why patients say "no".

Why do we say what we say the way we say it?

This paper seeks answer to the question why exactly we say what we say the way we say it. Although Giora (1997, 2003) argued that cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, play the most important role both in production and comprehension of language, most attention in pragmatics research has been focused on comprehension rather than production. This paper claims that...

Why Do Children Say "Me do it"?

A common feature of early speech is that children use case marking incorrectly. Several researchers have proposed that the child's mistakes are limited to the misuse of nominative case, and are corrected once the child acquires verbal morphology. In this paper I will show that this characterization of the problem is incorrect: children misuse all case forms, not just nominative case. In additio...

Why families say no to organ donation.

Is It All in the Phrasing? Computational Explorations in How We Say What We Say, and Why It Matters

Louis Armstrong (is said to have) said, “I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing”. Assomeone who does natural-language processing for a living, I’m a big fan of words; but lately, mycollaborators and I have been studying aspects of phrasing (in the linguistic, rather than musicalsense) that go beyond just the selection of one particular word over another. I’ll describe some of...