The purpose of this brief article is to investigate four-year-olds' interpretation of attributive measure phrases (MPs), such as 3-pound, and the role of cardinality in mediating children's responses. In two experiments, I demonstrate that children at this age are starting to recognize that such MPs refer to a property of an individual, such as weight per unit (rather than the weight of an enti...

While many investigations of number in linguistic and conceptual development have focused attention on how and when number words are acquired (Carey, 2004; Fuson, 1988; Gelman & Gallistel, 1978; Wynn, 1990, 1992; inter alia), and, to a lesser extent, what children have to learn about the interaction of number words with other elements in the syntax and semantics (cf. Musolino, 2004, 2009), the ...

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In order to lower the classification cost and improve the performance of the classifier, this paper proposes the approach of the dynamic cost-sensitive ensemble classification based on extreme learning machine for imbalanced massive data streams (DCECIMDS). Firstly, this paper gives the method of concept drifts detection by extracting the attributive characters of imbalanced massive data stream...

0. Introduction Previous analyses of the use of English definite descriptions have generally taken one of two approaches, loosely characterizable as familiarity and uniqueness. That is, felicitous use of the definite article has been argued to require that the referent of the NP be either known to the hearer within the current context of utterance (e.g. Heim 1983, Prince 1992) or uniquely ident...