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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"determiners"”.
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Verbal ability, previous practice and load on short-term memory as determiners of differences in a complex learning task: an experimental study
Traditional psychometric theory and practice classify people according to broad ability dimensions but do not examine how these mental processes occur. Hunt and Lansman (1975) proposed a 'distributed memory' model of cognitive processes with emphasis on how to describe individual differences based …
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L’acquisition des Catégories Fonctionnelles : Étude comparative du développement du DP français chez des enfants et des apprenants adultes
… The first analysis deals with the omissions of determiners and investigates the status of early Functional Categories (FCs). The children and the adults differ with respect to the underlying grammar of DPs at the initial state: only the children go through a stage where determiners are generally …
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Decompositionality and identity
… leaves a trace. I propose that restrictors of determiners can merge with them counter-cyclically. Copies of determiners without their restrictors turn into syntactic objects that receive the same interpretation as that assigned to a trace.
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La adquisición de la categoría funcional determinante y los sustantivos nulos del español infantil.
… of the morphological paradigm of the Spanish determiners. In this respect, a number of studies focus on the presence of functional categories (e.g. the Determiner Phrase) versus lexical categories (e.g. nouns) in the first stages of primary and non primary language acquisition. In this thesis …
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A General Semantic Model of Negation in Natural Language: Representation and Inference
… well as conjunction and disjunction of complex determiners, adjectives, adverbs, common nouns, proper nouns, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, prepositions, and prepositional phrases can be represented and reasoned with. Areas of future research involve extending the model to handle modal …
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Washback of the image
Tests are claimed to be powerful determiners of what teachers do in the classroom. Several studies have been conducted on washback. Washback is the term used to describe the impact that tests have on teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to examine the washback of the IMAGE at an …
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A modifier-based philosophy of whole number
… are treated as names, syncategoremata, determiners, and predicates are considered and rejected based on their failure to provide number-words with the necessary compositional semantics. This leaves only modifiers as plausible candidates to play number-words' role in natural language. …
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The secret life of pronouns
… I provide an argument in favor of existence of Determiners in Russian.
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… principle within the phrase, the nature of determiners and modifiers as well as how the concepts of definiteness and indefiniteness are realized in Tonga. The study based its conclusion on the data collected from both primary and secondary sources. Monze and the confines of the University of …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… principle within the phrase, the nature of determiners and modifiers as well as how the concepts of definiteness and indefiniteness are realized in Tonga. The study based its conclusion on the data collected from both primary and secondary sources. Monze and the confines of the University of …
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Adjectival definiteness marking: Lithuanian in a typological context /
… in the field of nominal determination alongside determiners, demonstratives, phrasal clitics, and other means of marking the category of (in)definiteness. The ADM in contemporary Lithuanian is analysed through several cross-sections. The research is data-driven, based on empirical evidence, both …
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Self-Regulating Learning Strategies for Students with Learning Differences
… of the literature includes discussions of the determiners of self-regulated learning, the process of demystifying learning differences, and offers instructional methods for teachers who want to help their students become more self-regulatory. The subjects in this study include students in my …
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The Logic of Subtractives or, Barely anyone tried almost as hard as me
… start with subtractive modified quantificational determiners, like "almost every" and "barely any." We then push this analysis further, showing it very naturally extends to degree constructions like comparatives and equatives, and captures the facts better other options. This extension also …
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Design and implementation of a sector-based airspace model for the MIT Extensible Air Network Simulation
… level winds and airspace congestion, two major determiners of flight time. The replacement flight time model presented divides the airspace into discrete sectors based on existing divisions in air traffic control. Each sector has its own wind conditions and capacity limitations which affect …
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Semantic and pragmatic language development in typical acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, and Williams syndrome with reference to developmental neurogenetics of the latter
… interpretation of the indefinite and definite determiners, as well as 'that', anaphors 'another' and 'same', and free relative clauses. The results in this thesis suggest that in typically developing (TD) children the late acquisition of determiner 'the' is due to the late maturation of the …
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The expression of topic continuity by noun and pronoun phrasing and zero anaphora in first-year research writing
… hierarchies in the use of nouns (with or without determiners) vs. pronouns vs. zero for referring back to antecedents were discovered, and the similarities and differences across the NES and Chinese ESL participants are compared. Possible factors for the dispreferences for both groups of …
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A linguistic analysis of the articular infinitive in New Testament Greek
… Greek article differs from the other kinds of determiners in that it often is used without its semantic weight as a determiner. In such cases the article appears as a pure function word. Chapters three and four demonstrate how this thesis arises from an inductive study of the articular …
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Comparative quantifiers
… down to level of the formation of comparative determiners. The proposal is based on concepts that are independently needed to analyze comparative constructions. Three main pieces will be argued to form the semantic and syntactic core of comparative quantifiers: a degree function expressed by …
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N-gram models of agreement in language
… etc) and the other of grammatical words (determiners, prepositions, modal auxiliaries, etc.) - then language can be viewed as the interlacing of two lexical streams: a content word sequence and a grammatical word sequence. Two words are said to be “super-adjacent” if they are next to each …
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