Japanese Bare Nouns (JBNs) appear to behave like indefinites in some contexts, and mass nouns in some other contexts. For example, when accomplishment verbs have JBNs as their theme, they are modified by both in-adverbs and for-adverbs. This paper first claims that JBNs are weak indefinites and introduce a variable to be bound by Existential Closure. Second, it shows how telic predicates are de...

Two experiments were carried out to determine the perceptual mechanism which distinguishes geminate consonants of Japanese by Korean learners of Japanese. The first investigated the categorical perception of Japanese geminate consonants. In this experiment, we carried out a listening test to measure perceptual characteristics by Korean learners. The second was an interview of Korean learners on...

This pilot study used a reversal theory framework to examine metamotivational dominance of rugby players on the Māori All Blacks (MABs) squad of New Zealand and the Japanese National Team (JNT). Since the two groups have different cultural team demographics, cultural identity was also examined. Twenty six players from the MABs and 31 from the JNT completed questionnaires on metamotivational dom...

Background Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ) is a remarkable tool to assess impairments in the mother-infant bonding. The purpose of the present study was to review the factorial structure of the PBQ cross different versions. Materials and Methods The search strategy was implemented on databases of Medline (via PubMed), Scopus, Cochran library and Web of Science through electronic database...

This paper addresses the automatic generation of a typographic font from a subset of characters. Specifically, we use a subset of a typographic font to extrapolate additional characters. Consequently, we obtain a complete font containing a number of characters sufficient for daily use. The automated generation of Japanese fonts is in high demand because a Japanese font requires over 1,000 chara...

In order to pursue research on generating referring expressions in a situated collaboration task, we set up a data-collection experiment based on the Tangram puzzle. For a pair of participants we recorded every utterance in synchronisation with the current state of the puzzle as well as all operations by the participants. Referring expressions were annotated with their referents in order to bui...

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