Abstract We present a number of puzzles arising for the interpretation modified numerals. Following Büring and others we assume that main difference between comparative superlative modifiers is only latter convey disjunctive meanings. further argue inference patterns triggered by disjunction are hard to capture in existing semantic pragmatic analyses these phenomena (neo-Gricean or grammatical ...

It is often remarked that natural language, used naturally, is unnaturally ungrammatical.* Spontaneous speech contains all manner of false starts, hesitations, and self-corrections that disrupt the well-formedness of strings. It is a mystery then, that despite this apparent wide deviation from grammatical norms, people have little difficx:lty understanding the non-fluent speech that is the esse...

The goal of this study was to determine whether bilingual children with specific language impairment (SLI) are similar to monolingual age mates with SLI, in each language. Eight French-English bilingual children with SLI were compared to age-matched monolingual children with SLI, both English and French speaking, with respect to their use of morphosyntax in language production. Specifically, us...

This paper introduces the notion of frequent frames, distributional patterns based on cooccurrence patterns of words in sentences, then investigates the usefulness of this information in grammatical categorization. A frame is defined as two jointly occurring words with one word intervening. Qualitative and quantitative results from distributional analyses of six different corpora of child direc...

This paper presents an overview of the Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation (PENTA) model of speech prosody in response to an extensive critique by Arvaniti and Ladd (2009). PENTA is a framework for conceptually and computationally linking communicative meanings to fine-grained prosodic details, based on an articulatory-functional view of speech. Target Approximation simulates the articul...

ABSTRACT Purpose To present the translation into Brazilian Portuguese and cross-cultural adaptation of Apraxia Speech Rating Scale (ASRS) version 3.5. Methods Validation study restricted to adaptation. The following steps were carried out: synthesis translations; verification applicability scale by judges recruited for this purpose; analysis relevance feasibility calculated Content Validity Ind...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to examine whether the expressive language characteristics of typically developing (TD) children learning English as a second language (ESL) have similarities to the characteristics of the English that is spoken by monolingual children with specific language impairment (SLI), and whether this could result in the erroneous assessment of TD English-language learne...

When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those events. But little is known about exactly what linguistic elements activate modality-specific systems during language processing. While it is known that content words, like nouns and verbs, influence the content of a ment...