Text comprehension processes were investigated in children with hydrocephalus, a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with good word decoding, but deficient reading comprehension. In Experiment 1, hydrocephalus and control groups were similar in processes related to activating word meanings and using context to enhance meaning. The hydrocephalus group was poorer at suppressing contextually ir...

It is undeniable that words have “meanings” that go above and beyond the scope of linguistic research. This article proposes that the meanings of words a speaker intends in an utterance be pragmatically enriched by relevance-driven inferential mechanisms, which take what is linguistically encoded as a guide in inferring speaker’s meaning. In order to regulate the occurrence and the interpretati...

The post methods era has witnessed a dramatic change inapproaches to and methods of teaching as well as testing. At the heart of such a change, collaborative learning has received top priority and testing domain has actually gone under scrutiny. This new mode of education has made stakeholders, especially in higher education; reflect on an interactive e-assessment based instruction. Such a cybe...

This paper discusses semantic factors contributing to the resultative interpretation of predicates in the Japanese te-ir construction. The construction ambiguously takes on either progressive or resultative meanings. This ambiguity is due to the lexical meaning of the verb, and it is the purpose of this paper to single out and characterize the classes of verbs which take on the resultative mean...

It is often useful to sort words into an order that reflects relations among their meanings as obtained by using a thesaurus. In this paper, we introduce a method of arranging words semantically by using several types of ‘is-a’ thesauri and a multi-dimensional thesaurus. We also describe three major applications where a meaning sort is useful and show the effectiveness of a meaning sort. Since ...

This article is an anthropological examination and analysis of a Dersim-based mythical story, focusing on its meaning and function in belief and the practice of daily life. Within this scope, the Dızgun Bawa myth, revolving around a central sacred figure, is broached and analyzed here as a text comprising a basis for the construction of collective discourses giving way to socially functional me...

The question of how to compose meaning in distributional representations of meaning has recently been recognised as a central issue in computational linguistics. In this paper we describe three general and powerful tools that can be used to describe composition in distributional semantics: quotient algebras, learning of finite dimensional algebras, and the construction of algebras from semigroups.

What is the meaning of hypercomputation, the meaning of computing more than the Turing machine? Concrete non-computable functions always hide the halting problem as far as we know. Even the construction of a function that grows faster than any recursive function — the Busy Beaver — a more natural function, hides the halting function, that can easily be put in relation with the Busy Beaver. Is t...

construction VERB meaning: PROCESS construction GEI3 subcase of VERB form self.f.orth <-“gei3” meaning : GIVE schema TRANSFER subcase of ACTION roles giver : @Entity recipient : @Entity theme : @Entity constraints giver <--> protagonist schema GIVE subcase of TRANSFER roles giver : @Animate recipient : @Animate theme : @Manipulable_Inanimate_Object Figure 2.4 Processes, like other schemas, are ...