Effects of negative input for 13 categories of grammatical error were assessed in a longitudinal study of naturalistic adult-child discourse. Two-hour samples of conversational interaction were obtained at two points in time, separated by a lag of 12 weeks, for 12 children (mean age 2;0 at the start). The data were interpreted within the framework offered by Saxton's (1997, 2000) contrast theor...

This article discusses one of the emergent themes of a qualitative research carried out with female adolescents in the neighborhood of Acaba Mundo, in the city of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, and aims at understanding their social representations on sexual initiation concerning gender. The data was collected in four workshops and analyzed on the basis of the social representation theo...

This paper presents a corpus study of parenthetical constructions in two different corpora: the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB, (PDTBGroup, 2008)) and the RST Discourse Treebank (Carlson et al., 2001). The motivation for the study is to gain a better understanding of the rhetorical properties of parentheticals in order to enable a natural language generation system to produce parentheticals as p...

Hints are an important ingredient of natural language tutorial dialogues. Existing models of hints, however, are limited in capturing their various underlying functions, since hints are typically treated as a unit directly associated with some problem solving script or discourse situation. Putting emphasis on making cognitive functions of hints explicit, we present a multi-dimensional hint taxo...

Short questions can be ambiguous even after considering their preceding contexts. Hence, prosody may be useful for disambiguating different types of questions and their uses. For example, question bias has been linked to the presence of certain pitch accents. This paper presents a corpus study of very short questions and the contribution of prosodic cues to discourse disambiguation. This study ...

Today conventional categories of creativity are being deconstructed in the so-called postmodern debate (Kearney, 1988). This paper takes this process deeper, to what we will show is the hidden subtext of gender underlying how creativity has been socially constructed. It also proposes a more contextualized approach to creativity that takes into account both its individual and social dimensions a...

So far, several approaches have been done in detecting and classifying argumentation in persuasive essays. In this paper, we proposed some new features on top of the state-of-the-art researches in argumentation mining. We grouped 68 features into 8 categories; they are structural, lexical, indicators, contextual, syntactic, prompt similarity, word embedding, and discourse features. Instead of h...

This article is meant as a basis for a semantic annotation manual. The annotation will translate the logical structure of written and spoken speech by a language-independent manner. The basis for this thesis can be found in temporal logic of Mark Steedman and the formalism introduced here elaborates on Patrick Blackburn’s hybrid multimodal logic and Dependency Grammar Logic of Geert-Jan Kruijff...

The objective of this study was to learn about strategies to develop binding between patients and Family Health Program (FHP) professionals at a basic health unit in the city of Fortaleza-CE. This descriptive and qualitative study was performed in August and September 2007 in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Study informants were the 12 professionals working in the family health program teams. Data wa...

UNLABELLED This qualitative study had the purpose to increase the discussions about the constitution of competences in the education of nurses so that they can work in the mental healthcare area. GOALS to analyze the representations of the research subjects about mental healthcare competences. METHOD qualitative research. SETTING The nursing department in a public university in the state ...