Children's Ability to Detect Semantic Contradictions

Children's Ability to Detect Semantic Contradictions

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Ability to detect hypoglycaemic symptoms.

Language and the ability to evaluate contradictions and tautologies

Children were found to experience difficulty evaluating contradictions of the form p 6 -p, and tautologies of the form p v -p. It was hypothesized that (a) the difficulty of these statements was not due solely to the logical words occurring in them, (6) part of the difficulty is due to the fhct that their truth value derives from their linguistic f&-m rather than from empirical considerations, ...

Ability to detect malodour might be genetic.

EDITOR,-In their study of subjects suffering from trimethylaminuria R Ayesh and colleagues observed that six of the 11 patients were unaware of their malodour.1 I report a small controlled study of the ability of normal, healthy subjects to detect the odour of trimethylamine. A mother complained that her 6 year old daughter had an unpleasant smell, which was present most of the time but was wor...

A voting scheme to detect semantic underspecification

The following work describes a voting system to automatically classify the sense selection of the complex types Location/Organization and Container/Content, which depend on regular polysemy, as described by the Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky, 1995) . This kind of sense alternations very often presents semantic underspecificacion between its two possible selected senses. This kind of underspeci...