A distinguishing property of human intelligence is the ability to flexibly use language in order to communicate complex ideas with other humans in a variety of contexts. Research in natural language dialogue should focus on designing communicative agents which can integrate themselves into these contexts and productively collaborate with humans. In this abstract, we propose a general situated l...

Prior research has suggested that the identification and encoding of letter positions within strings might be influenced by orthography. Letters in transparent languages (e.g., Greek) with regular grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences are processed sequentially, whereas letters deep English) parallel. In three experiments, we used a visual search paradigm to test this hypothesis on Russian—a rela...

this empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in sistan. code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. in this framework persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

The NoC is a specific flavour of interconnection networks. Interconnection networks have been studied for more than two decades and a solid foundation of design techniques is available. We will give a short introduction to the terminology, principles, theory of interconnection networks that are relevant for this thesis. Furthermore, we describe specific characteristics of NoCs in comparison wit...

Our Journal's tendency towards the real world in applied linguistics and literary studies should have significant epistemological and methodological consequences in researching the fields. The interest in the real world makes the problems we may have in our everyday lives our 'points of departure' in research. According to my experience of research in our universities throughout their history, ...