Fikkert (1994) analyzed a large corpus of Dutch children's early language production, and found that they often add targetless syllables to their words in order to create bisyllabic feet. In this note we point out a methodological problem with that analysis: in an important number of cases, epenthetic vowels occur at places where grammatical morphemes (e.g. plural and diminutive suffixes) may b...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the clinical and economic impact of colonoscopic referral for small and diminutive polyps detected at CT colonography (CTC) screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS A decision analysis model was constructed incorporating the expected polyp distribution, advanced adenoma prevalence, colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, CTC performance, and costs related to ...

OBJECTIVE Diagnostic imaging by CT colonography and capsule endoscopy is used to detect colonic lesions. Controversy exists regarding the work-up of subcentimetric lesions. The aim of this study was to identify risk indicators for advanced neoplasia (AN) in subcentimetric polyps. DESIGN Colonoscopies were classified on the basis of the largest lesion found. AN was defined as high-grade dyspla...

Abstract We survey templatic diminutive formation in Hungarian. conclude that there is an intricate system of endings are added to bases which truncated if they contain more than one vowel. Bases also subject vowel length changes both directions, as well the palatalization last consonant. The forms not harmony occurring suffixes prevails regular additive morphology language. Nevertheless, these...

This study examines the link between distributional patterns in the input and infants’ acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies. In two Headturn Preference experiments, Dutch-learning 24-month-olds (but not 17-month-olds) were found to track the remote dependency between the definite article het and the diminutive suffix -je while no such evidence was obtained for the remote dependency between ...

In this paper a new analysis is presented of the allomorphy of the Dutch diminutive suffix. There is one long allomorph (-etje) and four short allomorphs (-tje, -pje, -kje and -je). With respect to the choice between the long and short versions, this article compares two types of analyses, which appeal to the structural organisation of the stem (rather than to the segmental properties of the st...

The acquisition of diminutives by a single child between the ages of 1;5 and 2;5 is studied. The data cover the very first uses of diminutives. The child's use of diminutive word forms is analyzed quantitatively and compared with her mother's use. This comparison reveals a high correspondence between the child's and the mother's use, i.a. in terms of the frequency of the various allomorphs in t...

there are several suffixes in creating diminutive words with endearing meanings in the russian language. structures and their meaning variations, make it difficult for iranian pupils to comprehend its concepts which leads to a multitude of errors in translating and instructing this important issue. many foreign and russian researchers and linguists have studied and gone through diminutive words...

BACKGROUND Prior cost-effectiveness models analyzing computed tomography colonography (CTC) screening have assumed that patients with diminutive lesions (or=6 mm. The purpose of the current study was to assess the potential harms, benefits, and...