The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

This paper discusses the linguistic knowledge extraction from the iterative execution of a multiplayer non-cooperative repeated game. Linguistic knowledge is automatically extracted in the form of fuzzy if-then rules. Our knowledge extraction is mainly based on the on-line incremental learning of fuzzy rule-based systems. In this sense, our linguistic knowledge extraction is the learning of fuz...

Describing and modeling a complex system is very hard and time consuming, so, we propose to use a linguistic approach introduced by Zadeh. By taking a linguistic approach we can use linguistic variables and approximate rules to characterize approximately phenomenons which are too complex or too ill-defined to be done in numerical terms. Starting from the results obtained in our previous works, ...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine cross-linguistic differences in a picture-description task between Korean- and English-speaking individuals with Broca's and anomic aphasia to determine whether a variation exists in the use of verbs and nouns across the language and aphasia groups. Method Forty-eight individuals (male = 29; female = 19) participated in the study (n = 28 for aph...

Mycotoxins severely threaten the health of humans and animals. For this reason, many countries have enforced regulations and recommendations to reduce the dietary exposure. However, even though regulatory actions must be based on solid scientific knowledge, many aspects of their toxicological activity are still poorly understood. In particular, deepening knowledge on the primal molecular events...

This paper presents a plan-based model of dialogue that combines world, linguistic, and contextual knowledge in order to recognize complex communicative actions such as expressing doubt. Linguistic knowledge suggests certain discourse acts, a speaker's beliefs, aud the strength of those beliefs; contextual knowledge suggests the most coherent continuation of the dialogue; and world knowledge pr...

The present paper investigates the syntactic abilities of a group of individuals with Williams Syndrome to explore the debates surrounding the dissociation between language and cognition as well as possible dissociations within the language module in this population. Experimental linguistic measures that assess interpretation of passives, pronouns and reflexives as well as elicitation and compr...