Recall that dendrites are locally connected continua which contain no simple closed curve.
Such situations frequently involve continua of possible readings, and we have to decide which readings are acceptable and which constitute or betoken disease.
A central question is whether the three dimensions of lexical competence discussed above reflect three separate, if related, developmental continua along which vocabulary learning proceeds.
First, language proficiency and professional development need to be perceived as continua.
It has been argued that these dimensions may reflect three vocabulary-learning continua along which lexical development can be described.
The separation into continua is only illustrative: in fact, as we will see below, there may be degrees of overlap and parallelism between continua.
There are now seven discrete eigenvalues in the gap between the continua.
Hues are sensory, can be compared when being named, and are on continua.
