Sense and Sensitivity in Naming

Naming and Exclaiming: Infants' Sensitivity to Naming Contexts

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Sense and sensitivity.

From word sense naming to vocabulary augmentation in Papillon

In the framework of the Papillon project, there are acceptions that are not lexicalized in a given language. They correspond at best to some hypernyms. Moreover, in order to easily supervise a translation process, we would like to be able to name meanings instead of referring to definitions by numbers. Dictionaries define words using a ”genus + differentia” approach and can be exploited for new...

intercultural sensitivity instruction and interfaces among iranian efl learners intercultural sensitivity,language proficiency,ehnic and demograhic backgrounds:an ethnocentrism vs.ethnorelativism perspective

monumental changes occurring on a daily basis have altered the world into a global village of expanding technology and shrinking geography in which preparing language learners for intercultural communication seems to be a sine qua non for modern language education. employing a cross-sectional design in its first phase, this study investigated the intercultural sensitivity and language proficien...

Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

Many palaeoclimate studies have quantified pre-anthropogenic climate change to calculate climate sensitivity (equilibrium temperature change in response to radiative forcing change), but a lack of consistent methodologies produces a wide range of estimates and hinders comparability of results. Here we present a stricter approach, to improve intercomparison of palaeoclimate sensitivity estimates...