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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Proper Names"”.
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Individuation, identity and proper names in cognitive development
… component of the human mind and is critical to proper name reference (i.e. a proper name, like lvfax, refers to a unique individual, namely Max). Philosophers have proposed that sortals-concepts which refer to kinds of individuals-support these abilities (Gupta, 1980; Hirsch, 1982; Macnamara, …
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Framework for joint recognition of pronounced and spelled proper names
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Counterfactuals in Context: Felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names
… for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names in which essential changes to an individual are counterfactually posited using contrastive focus in either the antecedent or consequent clause. The felicity conditions proposed are an adaptation of Heim's (1992) CCP Semantics into …
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The analysis and acquisition of proper names for robust text understanding
In this thesis we consider the problems that Proper Names cause in the analysis of unedited, naturally-occurring text. Proper Names cause problems because of their high frequency in many types of text, their poor coverage in conventional dictionaries, their importance in the text understanding …
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Naming Particulars: A Thirteenth-Century Debate on Whether Individuals Have Proper Names
… bizarre question: Can individuals really have proper names? While scholarly studies have appeared previously on philosophers in the fourteenth century who discussed this question (most notably John Buridan), I show that the question was widespread in the thirteenth century and involved many …
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Processing of proper names in Mandarin Chinese : a behavioral and neuroimaging study
Proper names have been considered as a universal language class (Bright, 2003; Müller 2004). The distinction between proper names and common nouns has been postulated since several thousand years in ancient Greek and in Chinese philosophy of language (e.g., Kripke, 1972; Wu, 1997). Furthermore, …
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Strategies for translating proper names into lithuanian in the film series “x-men” /
… gaps between different societies, with proper names serving as essential elements in conveying identity, characteristics, and cultural nuances in texts, particularly in the field of film. This paper examines 102 proper names from the fiction film series “X-Men” and their translation into …
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Proper names in Pamvo Berynda's "Leksikon slavenorosskij i imen tlkovanie" of 1627
Abstract not available.
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"A Thousand Names They Called Him": Naming and Proper Names in the Work of S.Y. Agnon
This dissertation offers a study of proper names and naming as a conceptual and thematic anchor in the work of S.Y. Agnon. Proper names, I argue, constitute an underexplored and highly fruitful prism through which to read literature, and specifically Agnon's fiction. My study consists of a series …
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Labels and Tags: A New Look at Naming
… The need arises for a distinction between proper names on the basis of the kinds of objects to which they refer. This distinction can provide the theoretical tools needed to solve the problems of empty names, negative existential statements, cognitive significance and substitution failure. …
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Situations and individuals
I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be definite articles that take NP complements elided in the phonology; referential and bound variable pronouns are analyzed as …
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Lexical retrieval in spelling
… with regards to the distinction between proper names and common nouns. The ability of two patients to write/read proper names semantically was studied. Differences in the representational properties of proper names may result in them being selectively spared or impaired.
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Is Superman a Sense or a Superhero?
… Saul, which involves swapping coreferential proper names in simple sentences such as (1) Benito dresses as Clark Kent, and (1*) Benito dresses as Superman. While the traditional Frege's puzzle suggests that such substitutions do not change the truth value of a sentence, Saul's puzzle suggests …
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Interactions with context
… make pragmatic presuppositions when they use proper names. I appeal to these presuppositions in giving a treatment of Frege's puzzle that is consistent with the claim that coreferential proper names have the same semantic value. I outline an explanation of the way presupposition carrying …
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The oriental context for the end of Greek rule in the Hellenistic Age
… partnership of Seleucus and Apama.Proper names are used as they normally occur: Greek proper names are latinized if that has become the general usage: e.g. Seleucus not Seleukos. Mithridates of Parthia is differentiated by the 'i' in his name from Mithradates of Pontus for the sake …
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Rule based learning of word pronunciations from training corpora
… 95.3% phoneme accuracy for English words. For proper names, it achieves 50.5% exact word accuracy, 69.2% word accuracy, and 92.0% phoneme accuracy, which outperforms the compared neural network approach.
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Using automatic speech recognition to evaluate Arabic to English transliteration
… an increased need for transliteration of Arabic proper names for people, places, technical terms and organisations. There are a variety of available Arabic to English transliteration systems such as Unicode, the Buckwalter Arabic transliteration, and ArabTeX. The transliteration tables have been …
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The role and standardisation of geographical names on maps : Oman as a case study
… to the use and management of geographical names such as lack of databases and the contradiction of geographical names caused by having more than one establishment dealing with geographical names. This study seeks to consider these and contribute to developing the use of the existing …
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Adult Age Differences in Processing Narrative Text: Managing Character Representations
… disappeared, suggesting that age deficits in proper name learning, in part, contributed to the age differences in character accessibility observed in Experiment 1. Notably, the results with older adults revealed that named characters were, in general, more accessible than noun-designated …
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A Proposal for an American English/persian Transcription Scheme as A Bibliographic Control Tool
… control mechanism. Interpretation of proper names from one language into another has always been one of the major problems facing operators (i.e., catalogers, indexers and bibliographers) of bibliographic control systems. The motivation for this study grew from the realization that the …
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