This study explored access to grammatical gender during naming in Hebrew. Studies of anomia and tip-of-the-tongue states (TOT) found that speakers of various languages (Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch) have information about the grammatical gender of words they fail to retrieve. In Hebrew, on the other hand, a TOT study found that Hebrew speakers could not provide gender information. To test ac...

Grammatical dependencies often involve elements that are not adjacent. However, most experiments in which non-adjacent dependencies are learned bracketed the dependent material with pauses, which is not how dependencies appear in natural language. Here we report successful learning of embedded NAD without pause bracketing. Instead, we induce learners to compute structure in an artificial langua...

Effects of negative input for 13 categories of grammatical error were assessed in a longitudinal study of naturalistic adult-child discourse. Two-hour samples of conversational interaction were obtained at two points in time, separated by a lag of 12 weeks, for 12 children (mean age 2;0 at the start). The data were interpreted within the framework offered by Saxton's (1997, 2000) contrast theor...

There is a surprising degree of overlapping structure evident across the languages of the world. One factor leading to cross-linguistic similarities may be constraints on human learning abilities. Linguistic structures that are easier for infants to learn should predominate in human languages. If correct, then (a) human infants should more readily acquire structures that are consistent with the...

OBJECTIVE To validate the Arabic version of the Ureteral Stent Symptoms Questionnaire (USSQ). PATIENTS AND METHODS The English version of the USSQ was translated into Arabic using a multi-step process by three urologists and two independent translators. The Arabic version was validated by asking 37 patients with temporary unilateral ureteric stents to complete the questionnaire at 2 weeks aft...

This study aimed to determine the differences in curriculum between two countries, namely Indonesia and Malaysia, their implementation, especially learning Arabic. In this case, Arabic used 2013 regulations or known as K13 (Kurikulum 2013), while Malaysia uses KSSR Standart Sekolah Rendah) KSSM Menengah) its implementation. The is a series of plans streamline teaching learning. set plans, objec...

Grammatical inference, an important field of syntactic pattern recognition, is finding wider acceptance in many practical applications like computation biology. In this work we show the use of grammatical inference techniques in identifying pseudoknots in the RNA secondary structures. Identification of RNA secondary structure is among the few structure identification problems that can be solved...

The research presented in the paper forms part of a larger initiative aimed at automatic algorithm induction using machine learning. This paper compares the performance of two machine learning techniques, namely, genetic programming and a variation of genetic programming, grammatical evolution, for automatic algorithm induction. The application domain used to evaluate both the approaches is the...