PURPOSE To investigate the use of conjunctions in the spontaneous speech of three years old children with typical language development, who live in Santa Maria - RS. METHODS 45 children, aged 3:0;0 - 3:11;29 (years:months;days) from the database of the Center for the Study of Language and Speech (CELF) participated of this study. The spontaneous speech of each child was transcribed and follow...

PURPOSE To verify the use of conjunctions in narratives, and to investigate the influence of stimuli's complexity over the type of conjunctions used by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical language development. METHODS Participants were 40 children (20 with typical language development and 20 with SLI) with ages between 7 and 10 years, paired by age range...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is actually to obtain the efficiency using inputs and outputs, which can determine efficient and inefficient units with the help of performance calculations such that the efficiency for efficient DMUs is one and less than one for inefficient DMUs [1]. In some cases, the ranking of the decision-making units are not important for decision-makers, and they are only ...

Subjects searched sets of items for targets defined by conjunctions of color and form, color and orientation, or color and size. Set size was varied and reaction times (RT) were measured. For many unpracticed subjects, the slopes of the resulting RT X Set Size functions are too shallow to be consistent with Treisman's feature integration model, which proposes serial, self-terminating search for...

This paper aims to introduce the process used to create a “Parallel Learners’ Corpus of Spanish and English” (CPATEI) by integrating the theories and techniques of Corpus Linguistics, and to investigate the conjunctions used by the Spanish learners in Taiwan. The collected data in CPATEI are contributed by learners of Spanish from two universities in Taiwan, including Spanish compositions and t...

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We contribute to the theory of implications and conjunctions related by adjointness, in multiple-valued logics. We suggest their use in Zadeh s compositional rule of inference, to interpret generalized modus ponens inference schemata. We provide new complete characterizations of implications that distinguish left arguments, implications that satisfy the exchange principle, divisible conjunction...

The operation of negation on combinations of natural categories was examined in two experiments. In the first, category membership ratings of lists of items were obtained for pairs of concepts considered individually and in two logical combinations: conjunctions (e.g., "Tools which are also Weapons") and negated conjunctions--forms of those conjunctions in which the modifier noun category was n...