This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To investigate forms and functions of imprecise numerical expressions in biomedical slide talks, tokens were extracted from fifty-two talks ...

Language Acquisition, Vol. 20, No. 4 (October–December 2013), pp. 259-291 (33 pages) Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys) can give rise to two interpretations (collective ...

A hundred-foot road or a hundred-feet road? — Many readers must be familiar with the Indiranagar 100 Feet Road in Bangalore. Many roads in different cities of India have names such as 200-feet road, ...

They go hand in hand, words and numbers, the two fundamental constituents of expression—meaning information and thought. They are inseparable in our everyday lives, and in this essay I explore the ...

Substitution means putting numbers in place of letters to calculate the value of an expression. An expression can be a combination of numbers, letters and operators, grouped together.