Theories of semantic scope underspecification can be divided into two types, depending on whether they are based on the notion of satisfaction or on the notion of derivation.1 The central tenet of satisfaction-based theories of scope underspecification is that the relation between a representation SR with fully specified scope relations and a representation UR with underspecified scope relation...

A definition of pictorial style in terms of distinctive combinations of pictorial devices characteristic of a particular culture or period or the work of an individual artist is proposed. Four kinds of pictorial structure are described: the drawing (spatial) systems, the denotation systems, the mark systems and the attributes systems. Three pictures by Poussin, Rembrandt and the Achilles painte...

Smart sensor is information detection, information processing, information memory, logical thinking and judging function of sensor. It not only has the various functions of the traditional sensor, but also has the data processing, fault diagnosis, non linear processing, self correction and man-machine communication. BP (Back Propagation) neural network is a kind of error back propagation traini...

In this paper we throw further light on four questions on the argumentative use of emotive words studied in the recent literature on persuasive definitions. (1) What is the semantic and argumentative structure of an emotive word? (2) Why are emotive words so powerful when used as argumentative instruments? (3) Why and (4) under what conditions are persuasive definitions (based on emotive words)...

Tarskian semantics is called "Tarskian" for historical reasons (Tarski, 1936). A more descriptive name would be "systematic denotational semantics," or SD for short. The method is called "denotational" because it specified the meanings of a notation in terms of what its expressions denote. The method is called "systematic" in hopes that the rules that assign meaning are precise enough to suppor...

objectives: cerebral hemispheres functioning have been found to be abnormal in children with asd. the role of lateralization in implicit and explicit motor learning has received little attention in asd researches. the main goal of this study is investigating the differences between two hands implicit and explicit motor learning in children with asd and typical matched group. methods: in the pre...

Background: Normal children understand and use embodiment metaphorical expressions since they start learning a language, but children suffering from William’s syndrome even in adulthood have little understanding of such expressions and they can hardly use them. Objectives: This study is an attempt to teach embodiment metaphorical expressions of 4.5-5 year old Persian children suffering...

There is a sense in which authority control and bibliographic control are coterminous — two sides of the same coin. At the very least, bibliographic control is literally impossible without authority control. Cataloguing cannot exist without standardized access points and authority control is the mechanism by which we achieve the necessary degree of standardization. Cataloguing deals with order,...

Although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., Glucksberg & Keysar 1993; Skorczynska & Deignan, 2006; Sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in Iran. The gap envisagedhas ...