Sentence external elements in Catalan

Elements of the sets enumerated by super-Catalan numbers

As we know several people tried to get many structures for fine numbers (see [31, Sequence A000957]), while others on Catalan numbers (see [31, Sequence A000108]). Stanley [34,35] gave more than 130 Catalan structures while Deutsch and Shapiro [11] also discovered many settings for the Fine numbers. The structures for Fine numbers and Catalan numbers are intimately related from the list of Fine...

Catalan structures and Catalan pairs

A Catalan pair is a pair of binary relations (S,R) satisfying certain axioms. These objects are enumerated by the well-known Catalan numbers, and have been introduced in [DFPR] with the aim of giving a common language to most of the structures counted by Catalan numbers. Here, we give a simple method to pass from the recursive definition of a generic Catalan structure to the recursive definitio...

Before and after: sentence-internal and -external discourse relations

This study presents a corpora investigation (online available texts of written and spoken English) regarding the usage of the discourse connectives before and after in multi-sentence discourse. We focus on sentences that begin with a connective and analyse these along with the preceding text. Our results show that two discourse relations have to be derived for these sentences: a sentence-extern...

A Sentence Repetition Task for Catalan-Speaking Typically-Developing Children and Children with Specific Language Impairment

It is common to find that so-called minority languages enjoy fewer (if any) diagnostic tools than the so-called majority languages. This has repercussions for the detection and proper assessment of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) brought up in these languages. With a view to remedy this situation for Catalan, I developed a sentence repetition task to assess grammatical maturity...

30. Basic Patterns and Elements of the Sentence