Ectodermal dysplasia is a hereditary disease characterized by congenital dysplasia of one or more ectodermal structure and other accessory appendages. The oral manifestations are anodontia and poor bony foundation which impairs both esthetic as well as the masticatory function. The prosthodontic management of patients with such dysplastic condition necessitates a multidisciplinary approach. Thi...

This paper attempts to provide a sketch of formalism for Contrastive Topic in Korean and English. Based on the idea that a discourse structure basically consists of question/answer pairs, the proposed formalism shows 1) Korean contrastive topic corresponds to a certain prosody in English and the information structure for contrastive topic in both languages is essentially same, 2) Contrastive to...

1. Preliminaries In general, for languages which allow a flexible order of major constituents, the grammatical variations of simple sentences are truth-conditionally equivalent regardless of the constituent sequences and of the intonational patterns. In Spanish, for instance, the six logically possible variations of sentences containing three constituents, namely, subject, verb, and object are ...

Temporal for-adverbials and in-adverbials are commonly used as a diagnostics for distinguishing between perfective and imperfective aspect, respectively. We observe that in Czech imperfective verbs may combine with in-adverbials as long as the resulting reading is a bounded ability reading. We argue, in line with van Geenhoven (2004); Zucchi and White (2001), that there is no intrinsic grammati...

In 1966, Rosa introduced, among others, αand β-labelings as tools to solve the isomorphic decomposition problem of the complete graph. Ten years later, Sheppard calculated the number of αand β-labeled graphs with n edges. In this paper we use an extended version of the adjacency matrix of a graph to determine the number of gracefully labeled graphs with n edges; furthermore, we also calculate t...

BACKGROUND One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS The breakdown of illocutionary and perlocutionary functions is one of the most prominent external features of cognitive impai...

This paper investigates the use of neural networks for the acquisition of selectional preferences. Inspired by recent advances of neural network models for nlp applications, we propose a neural network model that learns to discriminate between felicitous and infelicitous arguments for a particular predicate. The model is entirely unsupervised – preferences are learned from unannotated corpus da...

The job of observational meteorology is to produce knowledge of the condition of the atmosphere at a desired future time. This problem has not been solved for the scientific weather forecaster in even the most felicitous circumstances. Two gaps are especially noticeable. Firstly, the only weather stations reporting daily are on the land. On the sea, which constitutes four fifths of the earth’s ...

Abstract This paper attempts to identify general, cross-cultural cognitive factors that trigger the default commissive interpretation of assertions about one’s future action. It is argued that the solution cannot be found at the level of the semantics of the English will, or any other future tense marker, but should be sought in the structure of rational intentions, as combined with the pragmat...

We propose a semantic analysis of the particles afinal (European Portuguese) and alla fine (Italian) in terms of the notion of truth unpersistence, which combines both epistemic modality and constraints on discourse structure. We argue that the felicitous use of these modal particles requires that the truth of a proposition p* fail to persist through a temporal succession of epistemic states, w...