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Co-learning of recursive languages from positive data

1996

The present paper deals with the co-learnability of enumerable families L of uniformly recursive languages from positive data. This refers to the following scenario. A family L of target languages as well as hypothesis space for it are specified. The co-learner is fed eventually all positive examples of an unknown target language L chosen from L. The target language L is successfully co-learned iff the co-learner can definitely delete all but one possible hypotheses, and the remaining one has to correctly describe L.

Journal of Baltic Linguistics

2012

Rune BENGTSSON. Names of Railway Stations and Halts in Lithuania over 150 Years ; Veslava Čižik-Prokaševa. Lietuvių kalbos laisvųjų antrinių predikatyvų vieta sakinyje ; Antra Kļavinska. Etnonīma pūli / poļaki semantika latgaliešu folklorā ; Bronius MASKULIŪNAS. Refleksyvumo raiška kiprijono Lukausko Pamoksluose ; William R.SchMaLStieg. Some comments on the Nominative Singular of Lithuanian n and r Stem Nouns ; Loreta VAIČIULYTĖ-SEMĖNIENĖ. Vietos antriniai predikatyvai

Estudi comparatiu de l’atenuació pragmàtica en la llengua catalana: converses col·loquials prototípiques-converses col·loquials perifèriques

2017

A comparative study on pragmatic mitigation in a corpus of colloquial conversations in Catalan has been conducted in this work. Its aim objective is to study mitigation in a contrastive way, that is to say, to examine the usage contrast of this pragmatic strategy amongst prototypical colloquial conversations and peripheral colloquial conversations. For this purpose, it was believed appropriate to previously explain conversational genre and colloquial register, that is to say, colloquial conversation and its characteristics. In order to conduct thus study, one’s own corpus has been complied (recorded and transcribed) consisting of five colloquial conversations: two prototypical ones and thre…

Finnish and UK English pre-teen children's text message language and its relationship with their literacy skills

2011

The aim of the study was to demonstrate the style of text language used by Finnish pre-teen texters (n = 65) and determine how their text language related to their traditional literacy skills, and compare descriptively these results with earlier results from work with young English texters. Three kinds of text messages (natural texts, elicited texts and elicited replies) were recorded after cognitive and literacy skills were assessed. Relationships between text language and standard literacy skills were shown to be different between the two languages, and we propose that those differences arise from both the structures of the languages themselves, and the communities of linguistic practice …

Linguistica Lettica, Nr. 8

2001

Language: A Challenging Resource in a Museum of Sámi Culture

2015

Choices made around using language in museums can either reinforce or challenge existing common sense language regimes and cultural hegemonies. The issues around linguistic choices are particularly pronounced for a museum of indigenous culture in a multilingual minority language community. Using the case of the Siida, the National Museum of the Finnish Sami, located in Inari, in Finnish Samiland, we explore some of the issues involved in using language in the museum. Based on a linguistic landscape analysis, we identify three main functions of language in the museum: managing and controlling visitors; narrating and explaining content and being displayed as content/exhibit. We discuss these …

Conceptual knowledge‐based strategy training in single‐digit calculation: a single case intervention study in a child with specific language impairme…

2009

The aim of this single‐case intervention study was to examine whether a conceptual knowledge‐based strategy training would improve the accuracy of single‐digit arithmetical calculation in a child with specific language impairment. The intervention concerned an11‐year‐old Finnish‐speaking child with specific language impairment. He was trained individually once a week for three months. On the basis of his baseline performance single‐digit arithmetical problems were divided into ‘well‐known arithmetical problems’ and ‘error‐prone arithmetical problems’. Error‐prone problems were taught in meaningful relation to well‐known problems, which he repeatedly solved correctly by using arithmetical fa…

Generalization of novel names for relations in comparison settings: the role of conceptual distance during learning and at test

2018

International audience; Relational categories are notoriously difficult to learn. We studied the impact of comparison on relational concept learning with a novel word learning task in 3- and 4-year olds. We contrasted a no-comparison (single) condition and two comparison conditions. In the latter case, the set of learning pairs was composed of either close or far pairs (e.g., close pair: knife1- watermelon, knife2-orange; far pair: ax-evergreen tree, saw-log, for the “cutter for” relation). We also manipulated the transfer stimuli semantic distance (near or distant semantic domain, e.g., a scissor for a piece of paper in the close case, and a shaver for a face in the far domain case). The n…

On Rossija hawamnilin, krestjanisalin mǝrduwǝr tinmukitwǝ ʒawacatin

1933

Revolucionārā cīņa Krievijā un pirmais pasaule karš. Teksts evenku valodā.

Gender and the gynecological examination: women's identities in doctors' narratives.

2007

The authors explore the constructions of gender in male doctors' narratives of gynecological examinations. Focusing on the ways in which gender identities are constructed in the stories of the medical encounter, they argue, first, that gender is more flexible during the visit with a gynecologist than has been suggested. Gendered identities are assumed and put aside as the interaction progresses, with its final stage—the pelvic examination—being constructed with gender removed. Second, they argue that undressing is invested with a special status during the examination. It is a gendered rite of passage between the two different ungendered subject positions of the doctor and the patient. They …