Expressives like damn and bastard have, when uttered, an immediate and powerful impact on the context. They are performative, often destructively so. They are revealing of the perspective from which the utterance is made, and they can have a dramatic impact on how current and future utterances are perceived. This, despite the fact that speakers are invariably hard-pressed to articulate what the...

too specialised and too technical for the ordinary student of medicine, for whom, a much smaller and simpler presentation is needed. The arrangement of the subject-matter and the general plan of the book are excellent, and it compares favourably with other works of its kind. The author has wisely omitted details of apparatus and technique. The description of lesions affecting the different anat...

We show that if G is a strongly minimal finitely axiomatizable group, the division ring of quasi-endomorphisms of G must be an infinite finitely presented ring. Questions about finite axiomatizability of first order theories are nearly as old as model theory itself and seem at first glance to have a fairly syntactical flavor. But it was in order to show that totally categorical theories cannot ...

In the context of Cousot and Cousot’s abstract interpretation theory, we present a general framework to define, study and handle operators modifying abstract domains. In particular, we introduce the notions of operators of refinement and compression of abstract domains: A refinement enhances the precision of an abstract domain; a compression operator (compressor) can exist relatively to a given...

This paper investigates how rising intonation affects the interpretation of cue words in dialogue. Both cue words and rising intonation express a range of speaker attitudes like uncertainty and surprise. However, it is unclear how the perception of these attitudes relates to dialogue structure and belief co-ordination. Perception experiment results suggest that rises reflect difficulty integrat...

Interpretation of Non-monotone Bi-inductive Semantic Definitions ,

Domains for Type Juggling Vincenzo Arceri Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy

1 Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-7300, USA 2 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 3 Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 4 Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 5 Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique CNRS/UMR 7083, ESP...

Given that interaction among peers is proved to be useful in the development of cognitive and narrative skills, this study compares the effects of an intervention based on the interaction among peers (INTP) and one between child and adult focused on the causes of events (CosCau) (Veneziano, 2009), o n the ability to tell coherent stories that take into account the causes of events and the inter...