WHAT IS MISSING IN L2 WORD MEANING REPRESENTATION?

Word Meaning , What is Said , and Explicature

In his logic of conversation, Paul Grice made an important distinction between two kinds of act that speakers may perform when uttering a sentence and, correspondingly, two kinds or levels of speaker meaning: (i) saying, hence what is said, and (ii) implicating, hence what is implicated (implicature) (Grice 1975). The distinction between what is said and what is implicated can be seen as one in...

The Acquisition and Representation of Word Meaning

Existing techniques for vector-space semantic representations have provided useful tools for the automatic building of semantic type systems. However, these models tend to pay little attention to the position of each element in the sequence of words. This leads to the loss of valuable information. We present an unsupervised technique that extracts rich representations encoding morphological, sy...

What Medicare Is Missing.

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What Capital is Missing in Developing Countries

What capital is missing in developing countries? We put forward “managerial capital,” which is distinct from human capital, as a key missing form of capital in developing countries. And it has also been curiously missing in the research on growth and development. We argue in this paper that lack of managerial capital has broad implications for firm growth as well as for the effectiveness of oth...