The acquisition of definite articles has often been related to the acquisition of functional categories (see e.g. Radford, 1990; Clahsen, 1996; Penner & Weissenborn, 1996), since definite articles belong to the functional category (FC) D. Under this view, a problem that remains unsolved is why children pass through a stage in which they produce some definite articles, while at the same time the...

Consider the statement "The IPCC report concluded that there is a human influence on climate. This was supported by almost 4,000 authors and reviewers." The popular mythology and one that IPCC never tries to correct is that those 4,000 supported the findings but this is an exaggeration on a massive scale because all they really supported, by virtue of their work, was the creation of the report....