Abstract Czech is a flective Slavic language that traditionally expresses gender in female surnames by suffixation. The formation of citizens regulated law. and the related law repeatedly attract attention non-linguists are discussed public arena. study analyses metaphors metonymies used these discussions involving non-linguists. data for analysis collected from discourse, especially newspapers...

BACKGROUND We report a survey of the content of obsessions in children with autism spectrum conditions. We use the term 'obsessions' narrowly, to indicate strong, repetitive interests. We predicted that obsessions would not cluster randomly, but rather would occur significantly more often in the domain of 'folk physics' (an interest in how things work), and significantly less often in the domai...

Much of human knowledge is organized into sophisticated systems that are often called intuitive theories. We propose that intuitive theories are mentally represented in a logical language, and that the subjective complexity of a theory is determined by the length of its representation in this language. This complexity measure helps to explain how theories are learned from relational data, and h...

The purpose of the paper is to show correlation between vocabulary collected by Gloger, presented from perspective semantic fields, and theculture region. analysis shows that Tykocin dictionary flows culture region which it grows. shape lexicon Gloger was influenced various factors, including geographical, historical, socio-economic conditions, tradition, beliefs, way life, customs participants...

PURPOSE We developed an adverse events (AEs) reporting form for Korean folk medicine. METHODS The first version of the form was developed and tested in the clinical setting for spontaneous reporting of AEs. Additional revisions to the reporting form were made based on collected data and expert input. RESULTS We developed an AEs reporting form for Korean folk medicine. The items of this form...