Although children take over a year to learn the meanings of the first three number words, they eventually master the logic of counting and the meanings of all the words in their count list. Here, we ask whether children's knowledge applies to number words beyond those they have mastered: Does a child who can only count to 20 infer that number words above 'twenty' refer to exact cardinal values?...

We present two approaches to automatically acquire morphologically related words from Wiktionary. Starting with related words explicitly mentioned in the dictionary, we propose a method based on orthographic similarity to detect new derived words from the entries’ definitions with an overall accuracy of 93.5%. Using word pairs from the initial lexicon as patterns of formal analogies to filter n...

Considering the significance of corrective feedback and its effect on L2 vocabulary building, this study aimed to investigate extent which direct (DCF) metalinguistic (MCF) could contribute use appropriate formal written words among Arabic learners English. A writing test (IELTS Task 2) as a pre post-test was administered gauge participants’ (N= 96) lexical resources. The sample randomly divide...

‘Words, words, words.’ This was Hamlet’s reply to Polonius’ question, ‘What do you read, my lord?’ (Shakespeare, 1603) [1]. By repeating the word three times, Hamlet suggests that what he is reading is meaningless. Before launching the journal Archives of Public Health, we have asked ourselves: ‘Do we not already produce too many words too many journals?’ or in other words ‘What is the added va...

The aim of this paper is to call to attention a very large and important area of human factors engineering that is almost entirely neglected. This area consists of the language and the words that are attached to the tools, machines, systems, and operations with which human factors engineers are concerned. Examples, illustrations, and data are cited to show that changes in the words used in man-...

We study the expressive power of linear propositional temporal logic interpreted on finite sequences or words. We first give a transparent proof of the fact that a formal language is expressible in this logic if and only if its syntactic semigroup is finite and aperiodic. This gives an effective algorithm to decide whether a given rational language is expressible. Our main result states a simil...

In order to analyze vague data set of uncertainty information, Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis(FFCA) incorporates fuzzy set theory into Formal Concept Analysis(FCA). It extracts useful information with a unit of fuzzy concept from given fuzzy formal context with a confidence threshold. Then it constructs fuzzy lattice by order relations between the fuzzy concepts. In this paper, we introduce basi...