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Moon, Nazmoon Falgunee
In [[4]], the authors present the DisCoCirc (Distributed Compositional Circuits) formalism for the English language, a grammar-based framework derived from production rules that incorporates circuit-like representations in order to give a precise categorical theoretical structure to the language. In this paper, we…
Marcel Bodor, Francois Bauduin
This paper presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the "Star of Bethlehem" narrative described in the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 2:1-12), examining the hypothesis, originally proposed by Johannes Kepler, that the reported phenomenon may be associated with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of 7 BCE. The methodology is based…
Marzieh Safari, Fatemeh Mahdavirad
The present study was aimed at a diachronic investigation of conjunction as a grammatical cohesive device in ELT research articles. A total number of 100 research articles concentrating on teaching writing skills in the EFL context, and were released in two extremes of 1980-82 and 2020-22 were selected. The caution was…
Yau Ni Wan, Gail Forey, Winnie Zeng, Francesco Cauteruccio
Background: Hospice refers to specialised end-of-life care that supports patients and families, making it an important area for studying how language shapes experiences and expectations of care. This study compares hospice discourse on websites in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, analysing how NLP-based sentiment and…
Arwa Saleh Alawerdy, Fahd Shehail Alalwi
Cohesion has long been regarded as one of the main components of successful writing. The basic assumption of this concept is that the interpretation of one element in a text is based on the interpretation of another in the same text. It has been noticed that Saudi EFL students seem to lack some basics in writing a…
Biyonka Liang, Lu Zhang, Lucas Janson
A Partial Conjunction Hypothesis (PCH) test combines information across a set of base hypotheses to determine whether some subset is non-null. PCH tests arise in a diverse array of fields, but standard PCH testing methods can be highly conservative, leading to low power especially in low signal settings commonly…
Behnam Karami, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
Visual objects are often defined by multiple features. Therefore, learning novel objects entails learning conjunctions. Visual cortex is organized into separate compartments, each of which is devoted to processing a single feature. A prime example of this is are neurons purely selective to color and orientation…
Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr, David Badre
For flexible goal-directed behavior, prioritizing and selecting a specific action among multiple candidates is often important. Working memory has long been assumed to play a role in prioritization and planning, while bridging cross-temporal contingencies during action selection. However, studies of working memory have…
Royi Rassin, Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty
Verbal omissions are complex syntactic phenomena in VP coordination structures. They occur when verbs and (some of) their arguments are omitted from subsequent clauses after being explicitly stated in an initial clause. Recovering these omitted elements is necessary for accurate interpretation of the sentence, and…
Abdulazeez Ahmad Jaradat, Mohammad Anwar Al-Taher
This research paper proposes that a vocative can be a potential source of coordination, thus it adds to the literature on the grammaticalization of coordinators. Evidence to this proposal is taken from Jordanian Arabic (JA) wherein the vocative particle ja: developed a disjunctive (coordination) function. The…
Fatemeh Akbari, Samaneh Asivandzadehchaharmahali, Abdolvahed Narmashiri
Recent findings suggest that conjunction visual search can be explained through the serial processing of features. However, the roles of several critical factors, including target location in the visual field and age, have yet to be explored. Given their significance in visual search, we aim to investigate their impact…
Stepan Kuznetsov, Alexander Okhotin
A new family of categorial grammars is proposed, defined by enriching basic categorial grammars with a conjunction operation. It is proved that the formalism obtained in this way has the same expressive power as conjunctive grammars, that is, context-free grammars enhanced with conjunction. It is also shown that…
Valeria V. González, Sowgol Sadeghi, Linh Tran, Aaron P. Blaisdell
The conjunction fallacy has currently only been demonstrated in humans. The conjunction fallacy refers to an error in decision-making where the conjunction of two events is estimated to be more likely than each event by itself (Tversky & Kahneman, ). The conjunction fallacy is commonly referred to as the “Linda…
Michael Chong Wang, Alireza Soltani
Real-world choice options have many features or attributes, whereas the reward outcome from those options only depends on a few features/attributes. It has been shown that humans learn and combine feature-based with more complex conjunction-based learning to tackle challenges of learning in complex reward environments.…
Tomás Veloz, Olha Sobetska
Since the seminal paper by Tversky and Kahneman, the 'conjunction fallacy' has been the subject of multiple debates and become a fundamental challenge for cognitive theories in decision-making. In this article, we take a rather uncommon perspective on this phenomenon. Instead of trying to explain the nature or causes…