This report compared production of infinitival object complements during conversational language sampling to production on an elicitation task. Subjects included 25 children between the ages of 3;7 and 5;4. The children produced more two-noun infinitives and produced infinitives with more main verbs on the elicitation task. In the conversational samples, the children produced infinitives almost...

Major innovations are becoming available for research in language development and disorders. Among these innovations, recent tools allow naturalistic recording in children’s homes and automated analysis to facilitate representative sampling. This study employed all-day recordings during the 2nd year of life in a child exposed to three languages, using a fully wearable battery-powered recorder, ...

abstract   introduction: the aim of present study was the investigation of simple and multiple correlations of motivational strategies (self-efficacy, achievement goals and test anxiety) with english language academic performance.   methods: for this purpose, 296 pre university students (139 girls and 157 boys) were selected by clustery random sampling and motivational strategies and achievemen...

This paper proposes a new adaptive importance sampling (AIS) technique for approximate evaluation of multidimensional integrals. Whereas known AIS algorithms try to find a sampling density that is approximately proportional to the integrand, our algorithm aims directly at the minimization of the variance of the sample average estimate. Our algorithm uses piecewise constant sampling densities, w...

Traditional text compression algorithms such as Huffman and LZ variants are usually based on 8-bit characters sampling. However, under the unicode representation for multilingual information, the character set of each language such as Chinese and Japanese is consisted of a very number of distinct characters and thus 16-bit or 32-bit character sampling is needed. Consequently, when text compress...