One phenomenon is the continuously extending use of the Internet. The DIASTASIS project attempts to measure and assess Internet usage and to define the profile of Internet users. This is very important for many actors, as public and private policy makers, organizations and individuals. Internet Usage has several dimensions. One aspect is the frequency of internet usage as well as different type...

Abstract: Past research has suggested that the use of a foreign language worsen decision making because of the heavier cognitive load imposed by a foreign language than by a native language (Takano & Noda, 1993). We discovered, however, that the foreign language usage can be beneficial to decision making under information overload (when it is based upon a large amount of information). Seventy-e...

According to the usage-based approaches, language develops in relation to the communicative contexts in which it unfolds. Usage-based theorists start from the assumption that children experience language as part of social interactions and that constructions are the basic units of language. This means that children learn language in the form of sentence level constructions embedded in communicat...

This article revisits earlier proposals that language learning is, in essence, the learning of formulaic sequences and their interpretations; that this occurs at all levels of granularity from large to small; and that the language system emerges from the statistical abstraction of patterns latent within and across form and function in language usage. It considers recent research in individual d...

This paper discusses a mathematical concept of language that models both artificial and natural languages and thus provides a framework for a unified language processing methodology. This concept of a language is regarded as a communication tool that allows language users to develop knowledges, while interacting with their universe of discourse, and to communicate with each other, while exchang...