Research on early word learning reveals that verbs present a unique challenge. While English-acquiring 24-month-olds can learn novel verbs and extend them to new scenes, they perform better in rich linguistic contexts (when novel verbs appear with lexicalized noun phrases naming the event participants) than in sparser linguistic contexts (Arunachalam & Waxman 2011). However, in languages like K...

Linguistic variables are very useful to evaluate alternatives in decision making problems because they provide a vocabulary in natural language rather than numbers. Some aggregation operators for linguistic variables force the use of a symmetric and uniformly distributed set of terms. The need to relax these conditions has recently been posited. This paper presents the induced unbalanced lingui...

This paper presents an overall introduction to the CWMT2008 evaluation and focuses on its two new metrics: BLEU-SBP (Chiang et al., 2008) and linguistic check-point method (Zhou et al., 2008). BLEU-SBP is a revised BLEU with strict brevity penalty. Our experiments validated BLEU-SBP’s effectivity in resolving the nondecomposability problem of both NIST-BLEU and IBMBLEU at sentence level. Lingui...

We examine decision makers ’ use of tacit linguistic intuitions and explicit linguistic knowledge for brand name translations from English to Chinese. We present a market study, which reveals that managers intuitively use linguistic sound and meaning characteristics, that is, which sounds and meanings best fi t for the Chinese translation of the English names. A subsequent experiment shows that...

translation is an indispensable tool for communication between the diverse linguistic groups. it opens new horizons for the people living in a country so that it makes changes and improvements in their society, especially in the literature. through the translation process, some literary principles and elements are introduced into the home literature which did not exist before. these features em...

We will devote our commentary to two topics from Ullman et al. s study: (1) the linguistic assumptions that underlie the Ullman et al. investigation, and (2) the implications of the study for linguistic theory. The paper is a detailed study of the English past tense in aphasia, and is couched in the context of the larger debate between connectionist and non-connectionist models of human linguis...

the benefits of textual input enhancement in the acquisition of linguistic forms have produced mixed results in sla literature. the present study investigates the effects of textual enhancement on adult foreign language intake of two english linguistic forms-subjunctive mood and inversion structures-to explore the role of the type of linguistic items in input enhancement studies. it also invest...

We will devote our commentary to two topics from Ullman et al. s study: (1) the linguistic assumptions that underlie the Ullman et al. investigation, and (2) the implications of the study for linguistic theory. The paper is a detailed study of the English past tense in aphasia, and is couched in the context of the larger debate between connectionist and non-connectionist models of human linguis...