Vulnerability: Too Vague and Too Broad?

Vulnerability: too vague and too broad?

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Presuppositional Too, Postsuppositional Too

One of the insights of dynamic semantics in its various guises (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982, Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991, Kamp & Reyle 1993 among many others) is that interpretation is sensitive to left-to-right order. Is order sensitivity, particularly the default left-to-right order of evaluation, a property of particular meanings of certain lexical items (e.g., dynamically interpreted conjunction) o...

Research and development and the polio eradication initiative: too much, too soon...too little, too late?

• Adult Support & Facilitation Full engagement in interaction, conversation, household work, reading, exploration, adventures, etc. Model appropriate thought, speech, and behavior, plus lessons from mistakes Acknowledge effort more than natural ability Clear boundaries between adult and child choices, decisions, space, etc. Consistent limits, rules, expectations with natural consequences when p...

'Too withdrawn' or 'too friendly': considering social vulnerability in two neuro-developmental disorders.

In some neuro-developmental disorders, the combined effect of intellectual disability and atypicalities of social cognition may put individuals at increased vulnerability in their social environment. The neuro-developmental disorders Williams syndrome, characterised by 'hypersociability', and autism spectrum disorders, characterised by 'social withdrawal', are at two extremes of atypical social...

Thrombolysis: too old and too young.