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Answer added in Programming Languages40 R is an excellent statistical tool, but my question is: Can R be used also used as a good general purpose programming language?I use R for corpus linguistics, that is, any sort of string manipulation you can think of. And of course the subsequent data analysis. But I agree wit... [more]
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Answer added in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)8 Can anyone suggest how the effect of different L1s of participants could be treated in a study of acquisition of a linguistic structure?Rajka Smiljanic also has several studies in which L1 is a factor.
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Article: Searching for control: Priming randomness increases the evaluation of ritual efficacy
Cognitive Science 01/2013; · 2.38 Impact Factor -
Article: The use of questions as problem-solving strategies during early childhood.
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ABSTRACT: This study examined the strategic use of questions to solve problems across early childhood. Participants (N=54, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds) engaged in two tasks: a novel problem-solving question task that required asking questions to an informant to determine which card in an array was located in a box and a cognitive flexibility task that required classifying stimuli by multiple dimensions. The results from the question task indicated that there were age differences in the types of questions asked, with 6-year-olds asking more constraint-seeking questions than 4- and 5-year-olds. The number of constraint-seeking questions asked was the only significant predictor of accuracy. Performance on the cognitive flexibility task correlated with both constraint-seeking strategy use and accuracy in the question task. In sum, our results provide evidence that the capacity to use questions to generate relevant information develops before the capacity to apply this information successfully and consistently to solve complex problems. We propose that the process of using questions as strategic tools is an ideal context for examining how children come to gain active and intentional control over problem solving.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 10/2012; · 3.12 Impact Factor -
Article: Evidence from the supernatural: Evaluating ritual efficacy.
Cognition 01/2012; · 3.16 Impact Factor -
Article: A collostructional analysis of the distribution of nouns and verbs in child-directed speech.
Computational Linguistics 01/2012; · 0.72 Impact Factor -
Book: Estatistica para linguistas através do R.
01/2012; Editora UFMG.
