Similarity In Difference

Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr,Ora Matushansky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288349

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Adjectives by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr,Ora Matushansky Pdf

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and Serbocroatian). The theoretical issues explored include: the syntax of attributive and predicative adjectives, the syntax of nominalized adjectives and the identification of adjectives as a distinct lexical category in Mandarin Chinese. A further four contributions examine different aspects in the semantics of adjectives in English, French, and Spanish, dealing with superlatives, comparatives, and aspect in adjectives. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

Author : Christer Lundh,Satomi Kurosu
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262027946

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Similarity in Difference by Christer Lundh,Satomi Kurosu Pdf

A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East–West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality across regions. Since Malthus, an East–West dichotomy has been used to characterize marriage behavior in Asia and Europe. Marriages in Asia were said to be early and universal, in Europe late and non-universal. In Europe, marriages were supposed to be the result of individual choices but, in Asia, decided by families and communities. This book challenges this binary taxonomy of marriage patterns and family systems. Drawing on richer and more nuanced data, the authors compare the interpretations based on aggregate demographic patterns with studies of individual actions in local populations. Doing so, they are able to analyze simultaneously the influence on marriage decisions of individual demographic features, socioeconomic status and composition of the household, and local conditions, and the interactions of these variables. They find differences between East and West but also variation within regions and commonality across regions. The book studies local populations in Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Japan, and China. Rather than a simple comparison of aggregate marriage patterns, it examines marriage outcomes and determinants of local populations in different countries using similar data and methods. The authors first present the results of comparative analyses of first marriage and remarriage and then offer chapters each of which is devoted to the results from a specific country. Similarity in Difference is the third in a prizewinning series on the demographic history of Eurasia, following Life under Pressure (2004) and Prudence and Pressure (2009), both published by the MIT Press.

Author : Anil Bhatti,Dorothee Kimmich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Identity (Philosophical concept)
ISBN : 9382381961

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Similarity by Anil Bhatti,Dorothee Kimmich Pdf

Papers presented in three conferences, supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Excellence Cluster 16: 'Cultural Foundation of Integration' at the University of Konstanz, and the Institute of German Studies and the Forum Scientairum at the Univesity of Tubingen.

Author : Stefano Arduini,Robert Hodgson
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788884983749

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Similarity and Difference in Translation by Stefano Arduini,Robert Hodgson Pdf

Revised version. These essays study the grand paradox of similarity and difference from four different methodological standpoints: rhetoric, epistemology, semiotics, and culture. Paperback. 6 x 9 in. 542 pages

Author : Stephen W. Link
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429620065

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The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity by Stephen W. Link Pdf

Two experimental procedures prompted the empirical development of psychophysical models: those that measure response frequency, often referred to as response probability; and those that measure response time, sometimes referred to as reaction time. The history of psychophysics is filled with theories that predict one or the other of these two responses. Yet the persistent reappearance of empirical relationships between these two measures of performance makes clear the need for a theory that both predicts and relates these two measures. Most likely, both response measures are the result of a single process that generates empirical laws relating response time and response probability. It is this process — its theory, description, and application — that is the topic of The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity. Originally published in 1992, the author of this book has set out to provide a theoretical foundation for formulating new theories that systematize earlier results and to stimulate new concepts and introduce new tools for exploring mental phenomena and improving mental measurement.

Author : Danny Law
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270474

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Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference by Danny Law Pdf

This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretical, historical, contact, typological, socio- and anthropological linguistics. This linguistically complex situation involves serious engagement with issues of methods for distinguishing contact-induced similarity from inherited similarity, the role of social and ideological variables in conditioning the outcomes of language contact, cross-linguistic tendencies in language contact, as well as the effect that inherited similarity can have on the processes and outcomes of language contact.

Author : Håkan Ringbom
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853599347

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Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning by Håkan Ringbom Pdf

This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages.

Author : Amos Tversky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 026270093X

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Preference, Belief, and Similarity by Amos Tversky Pdf

Amos Tversky (1937–1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.

Author : Peter Mark Roget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : English language
ISBN : UGA:32108010876343

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Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget Pdf

Author : Haowen Yan,Jonathan Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319097435

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Spatial Similarity Relations in Multi-scale Map Spaces by Haowen Yan,Jonathan Li Pdf

How does one determine how similar two maps are? This book aims at the theory of spatial similarity relations and its application in automated map generalization, including the definitions, classification and features of spatial similarity relations. Included also are calculation models of spatial similarity relations between arbitrary individual objects and between arbitrary object groups, and the application of the theory in the automation of the algorithms and procedures in map generalization.

Author : Stella Vosniadou,Andrew Ortony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521389356

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Similarity and Analogical Reasoning by Stella Vosniadou,Andrew Ortony Pdf

Similarity and analogy are fundamental in human cognition. They are crucial for recognition and classification, and have been associated with scientific discovery and creativity. Any adequate understanding of similarity and analogy requires the integration of theory and data from diverse domains. This interdisciplinary volume explores current development in research and theory from psychological, computational, and educational perspectives, and considers their implications for learning and instruction. The distinguished contributors examine the psychological processes involved in reasoning by similarity and analogy, the computational problems encountered in simulating analogical processing in problem solving, and the conditions promoting the application of analogical reasoning in everyday situations.

Author : Jenn Kepka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : OCLC:1085365158

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Oregon Writes by Jenn Kepka Pdf

This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon. Created through a grant from Open Oregon in 2015-16, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand.

Author : Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387362182

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Handbook of the Sociology of Gender by Janet Saltzman Chafetz Pdf

During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those of the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses specifically on socio logical theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed across the full array of social processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked authors to include cross-national and historical material as much as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric. Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age cohort lines.

Author : Valerie V. Cross,Thomas A. Sudkamp
Publisher : Physica
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783790817935

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Similarity and Compatibility in Fuzzy Set Theory by Valerie V. Cross,Thomas A. Sudkamp Pdf

Assessing the degree to which two objects, an object and a query, or two concepts are similar or compatible is a fundamental component of human reasoning and consequently is critical in the development of automated diagnosis, classification, information retrieval and decision systems. The assessment of similarity has played an important role in such diverse disciplines such as taxonomy, psychology, and the social sciences. Each discipline has proposed methods for quantifying similarity judgments suitable for its particular applications. This book presents a unified approach to quantifying similarity and compatibility within the framework of fuzzy set theory and examines the primary importance of these concepts in approximate reasoning. Examples of the application of similarity measures in various areas including expert systems, information retrieval, and intelligent database systems are provided.

Author : M. Lynne Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139437455

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Semantic Relations and the Lexicon by M. Lynne Murphy Pdf

Semantic Relations and the Lexicon explores the many paradigmatic semantic relations between words, such as synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy, and their relevance to the mental organization of our vocabularies. Drawing on a century's research in linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and computer science, M. Lynne Murphy proposes a pragmatic approach to these relations. Whereas traditional approaches have claimed that paradigmatic relations are part of our lexical knowledge, Dr Murphy argues that they constitute metalinguistic knowledge, which can be derived through a single relational principle, and may also be stored as part of our extra-lexical, conceptual representations of a word. Part I shows how this approach can account for the properties of lexical relations in ways that traditional approaches cannot, and Part II examines particular relations in detail. This book will serve as an informative handbook for all linguists and cognitive scientists interested in the mental representation of vocabulary.