This study investigates children's ability to use language to guide their choice of individuation criterion in the domains of objects and events. Previous work (Shipley, E. F., & Shepperson, B. (1990). Countable entities: developmental changes. Cognition, 34, 109-136.) has shown that children have a strong bias to use a spatio-temporal individuation strategy when counting objects and that child...

The supply performance has the dynamic continuity behaviors which cover the past, present and future of time horizons. The assessment of supply performance possesses properties of uncertainty and inaccuracy, and is associated with multiple dimensions of supply behavior. Given the difficulty of executing the assessment with quantification, this study uses linguistic variable to assess supply be...

Linguistic query systems are special purpose IR applications. We present a novel state-of-the-art approach for the efficient exploitation of very large linguistic corpora, combining the advantages of relational database management systems (RDBMS) with the functional MapReduce programming model. Our implementation uses the German DEREKO reference corpus with multi-layer linguistic annotations an...