Theories of language acquisition have highlighted the importance of adult speakers as active participants in children's language learning. However, in many communities children are reported to be directly engaged by their caregivers only rarely (Lieven, 1994). This observation raises the possibility that these children learn language from observing, rather than participating in, communicative e...

Chinese input method is one of the most difficult problems in Chinese Language Processing. And to input Chinese word in mobile phone effectively is an even bigger challenge. In this paper, we propose a new Chinese pinyin input method in mobile phone. This method uses a compact statistical bigram based language model. Also, to meet the special requirements of Chinese pinyin input in mobile phone...

Combining modules as rst class data structures with explicit input/output-operations for arbitrary expressions in a purely functional programming language brings the exibility of integrated programming environments under control of the functional language. Compared to conventional module systems, the proposed solution provides enhanced func-tionality in a simpler framework, using the functional...