This paper proposes a rational analysis of referential inference. Referential inference is involved whenever a speaker has to provide an utterance that will effect some action on the part of their listener—a situation that occurs constantly in everyday language use. Our rational analysis of referring makes certain assumptions about the goal, environment, and computational constraints involved i...

This study examines the possibility of using IRF (Initiation-Response-Follow-up) sequence teacher-student interaction in Sri Lankan ESL (English as a Second Language) classes for developing longer interactional exchanges which are believed to be useful language development. Usually, classes, teachers ask more display questions and few referential questions. As result, occurs only occasionally t...

In this paper we discuss referential choice – the process of referential device selection made by the speaker in the course of discourse production. We aim at explaining the actual referential choices attested in the discourse sample. Two alternative models of referential choice are discussed. The first approach of Kibrik (1996, 1999, 2000) is the cognitive calculative approach. It suggests tha...

The development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) has no doubt contributed to prompting a renewed interest in children’s narratives. This carefully controlled test narrative abilities elicits rich set measures spanning multiple linguistic domains and their interaction, including lexis, morphosyntax, discourse-pragmatics, as well various aspects structure, communica...

In this paper we present the ongoing efforts to expand the depth and breath of the Open Multilingual Wordnet coverage by introducing two new classes of non-referential concepts to wordnet hierarchies: interjections and numeral classifiers. The lexical semantic hierarchy pioneered by Princeton Wordnet has traditionally restricted its coverage to referential and contentful classes of words: such ...

The paper discusses the use of a Question and Answer section of a Discussion Board on a computer-mediated web conferencing tool, and the way in which this facility fits with ideas of social learning. A description will be provided of how learning was developed through questions and answers in this subject and insights will be shared regarding the various uses of this facility by the students. I...

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Self-consciousness plays an important role in a person’s social life. Assuming that selfconsciousness is a key to understanding social impairments in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), we examined self-consciousness in individuals with Asperger’s disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS) and their controls using an episodic memory task. The PDDNOS...

Artemov’s logic of proofs LP is a complete calculus of propositions and proofs, which is now becoming a foundation for the evidence-based approach to reasoning about knowledge. Additional atoms in LP have form t : F , read as “t is a proof of F” (or, more generally, as “t is an evidence for F”) for an appropriate system of terms t called proof polynomials. In this paper, we answer two well-know...