Yes to Realism! No to Non-naturalism!

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

Dewey on Naturalism, Realism and Science

Generating Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions

An indirect answer to! a Yes-No question conversationally implicates the speaker's evaluation of the truth of the questioned proposition. We present the approach to generation used in our implemented system for generating and interpret~ing indirect answers to Yes-No questions in English. Generation of a discourse plan is performed in two phases: content planning and plan pruning. During content...

No NO means yes to sickle red cell adhesion.

In fact, patients with these conditions are particularly prone to developing refractoriness to platelet transfusions, and treatment of bleeding in this situation represents a major clinical problem. The data presented by Colucci et al provide a rationale for hoping that DDAVP can be effective in these emergencies as well as in preparation of patients for surgery or invasive procedures. Much wor...

Can you predict responses to yes/no questions? yes, no, and stuff

We analyze what functions as a YES response and a NO response for different yes/no questions. This problem is surprisingly complex: respondents do not always produce overt yes or no lexical items in response to a yes/no question. In addition, when respondents don’t include a clear yes or no word, they may mean to communicate a clear YES or NO meaning, or something else. We find that the classif...