1 Effects of Verb Bias and Syntactic Ambiguity on Reading in People
... the bias of the main verb. The main verb is biased to take a DO in sentence 1 (e.g., accepted), but biased to take a SC in sentence (2) (e.g., admitted). Garnsey et al. (1997) showed that both syntactic ambiguity and verb bias influenced reading times for college age adults. The Lexical Bias Hypothe ...
... the bias of the main verb. The main verb is biased to take a DO in sentence 1 (e.g., accepted), but biased to take a SC in sentence (2) (e.g., admitted). Garnsey et al. (1997) showed that both syntactic ambiguity and verb bias influenced reading times for college age adults. The Lexical Bias Hypothe ...
Example
... ‘the’ is used to show that two things change to the same degree. Example 1: The less you talked about this matter, the more depressed she became. Example 2: The more I play volley ball, the happier I will be. ‘the’ is used with the superlative form of comparison. Example: The city hall is the tal ...
... ‘the’ is used to show that two things change to the same degree. Example 1: The less you talked about this matter, the more depressed she became. Example 2: The more I play volley ball, the happier I will be. ‘the’ is used with the superlative form of comparison. Example: The city hall is the tal ...
Two Types of Agentive Nominalization in Persian
... xosh-xâb-Ø (N/A) ‘person who easily falls asleep, happy-sleeper; a happy-sleep-Ø-suf kind of bed’ ...
... xosh-xâb-Ø (N/A) ‘person who easily falls asleep, happy-sleeper; a happy-sleep-Ø-suf kind of bed’ ...
Theme - Wsfcs
... Teacher gives students commands in Latin, and they follow the instructions. Teacher shows students pictures of monuments, etc. Relate to monuments around the world (e.g., Arc de Triomphe). ...
... Teacher gives students commands in Latin, and they follow the instructions. Teacher shows students pictures of monuments, etc. Relate to monuments around the world (e.g., Arc de Triomphe). ...
The + adjective
... functions in a sentence: • It can be used as an attributive adjective when it precedes the subject. (e.g. The black boy said to the white boy…) • It can be used as a predicative adjective when it follows the subject or the verb. (e.g. Life is short.) Some adjectives can be used in this position only ...
... functions in a sentence: • It can be used as an attributive adjective when it precedes the subject. (e.g. The black boy said to the white boy…) • It can be used as a predicative adjective when it follows the subject or the verb. (e.g. Life is short.) Some adjectives can be used in this position only ...
Subjects and Verbs
... something in the sentence?” The answer is Gloria. She is the person who wrote the answers on the board. So Gloria is the subject of the second sentence. A subject will always be either a noun or a pronoun. A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. A pronoun is a word—such as I, you, he, ...
... something in the sentence?” The answer is Gloria. She is the person who wrote the answers on the board. So Gloria is the subject of the second sentence. A subject will always be either a noun or a pronoun. A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. A pronoun is a word—such as I, you, he, ...
74. Colloquial Expressions and Idioms 75. Word Formation
... Many students had read this novel. = This novel had been read by many students. *Notice that in the passive voice, the past participle of werden is worden and not geworden. Durch can replace von when the agent is an impersonal force (fire, wind, etc.); but it cannot be used if preceded by a limiting ...
... Many students had read this novel. = This novel had been read by many students. *Notice that in the passive voice, the past participle of werden is worden and not geworden. Durch can replace von when the agent is an impersonal force (fire, wind, etc.); but it cannot be used if preceded by a limiting ...
Adverb
... Formed from two words, but have become so fused together that the two parts have made a word whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual parts: Anywhere, sometimes, however, always ,almost, already ,together,…. 2.1.4.Adverbial phrases. Formed by a group of two or more words functi ...
... Formed from two words, but have become so fused together that the two parts have made a word whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual parts: Anywhere, sometimes, however, always ,almost, already ,together,…. 2.1.4.Adverbial phrases. Formed by a group of two or more words functi ...
Daily Exit Slips Killgallon Grammar Unit 3: Phrases Lesson 1
... the same, chabudwo. Or maybe she said butong, not the same thing at all. It was one of those Chinese expressions that means the better half of mixed intentions. I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. ...
... the same, chabudwo. Or maybe she said butong, not the same thing at all. It was one of those Chinese expressions that means the better half of mixed intentions. I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. ...
PPA 503 – The Public Policy
... Client-centered advice. But: the advice was client centered. ...
... Client-centered advice. But: the advice was client centered. ...
Participial Phrases 1. Participles are adjectives formed from verbs
... The audience was bored by the speaker. The bored audience ...
... The audience was bored by the speaker. The bored audience ...
A Description of the French Nucleus VP Using Co-occurrence
... and (ii) it does not account for the government of clitics by verbs: any clitic pronoun will combine with any verb, and no verb will require some specific pronoun. We leave this major issue for future work. The major challenges in the language we intend to describe are the handling of clitic pronoun ...
... and (ii) it does not account for the government of clitics by verbs: any clitic pronoun will combine with any verb, and no verb will require some specific pronoun. We leave this major issue for future work. The major challenges in the language we intend to describe are the handling of clitic pronoun ...
Towards an Automatic Translation of Medical Terminology and Texts
... which serve the purpose of dividing up the stages of analysis/synthesis between CS and IS into more manageable tasks. The IS level, having no linguistic justification other than that of serving for transfer, can be shaped and restricted according to these demands. In particular, the IS is designed t ...
... which serve the purpose of dividing up the stages of analysis/synthesis between CS and IS into more manageable tasks. The IS level, having no linguistic justification other than that of serving for transfer, can be shaped and restricted according to these demands. In particular, the IS is designed t ...
Linguistics 403/404 Lecture Notes No.4
... For the coming mid-term, we shall be examining polysynthetic languages under the microscope of whether or not movement allows to creep into the morpheme level. As we see for Latin, word order is free since subject/object inflectional marking is strong such that word order doesn’t have to be fixed. W ...
... For the coming mid-term, we shall be examining polysynthetic languages under the microscope of whether or not movement allows to creep into the morpheme level. As we see for Latin, word order is free since subject/object inflectional marking is strong such that word order doesn’t have to be fixed. W ...
Pseudo-incorporation in Dutch Geert Booij
... of Hungarian being SVO. In sentence (2b), a bare noun verset precedes the verb. In this sentence, the NV combination denotes the act of reading one or more poems, that is, poetry. So this sentence does not mean that Mari is reading one, unspecified poem. In sentence (2c), the plural noun verseket is ...
... of Hungarian being SVO. In sentence (2b), a bare noun verset precedes the verb. In this sentence, the NV combination denotes the act of reading one or more poems, that is, poetry. So this sentence does not mean that Mari is reading one, unspecified poem. In sentence (2c), the plural noun verseket is ...
College Readiness Standards — English
... (e.g., compound sentences containing unnecessary commas and phrases that may or may not be parenthetical) Use an apostrophe to show possession, especially with irregular plural nouns Use a semicolon to indicate a relationship between closely related independent clauses ...
... (e.g., compound sentences containing unnecessary commas and phrases that may or may not be parenthetical) Use an apostrophe to show possession, especially with irregular plural nouns Use a semicolon to indicate a relationship between closely related independent clauses ...
Chapter 1 Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé
... hen you want to say that something just happened, you need the passé proche (near past). This tense uses the verb venir (to come) followed by the preposition de and an infinitive verb. However, when you want to tell someone what you’ve accomplished, where you’ve been, and whom you met yesterday, las ...
... hen you want to say that something just happened, you need the passé proche (near past). This tense uses the verb venir (to come) followed by the preposition de and an infinitive verb. However, when you want to tell someone what you’ve accomplished, where you’ve been, and whom you met yesterday, las ...
Basic Sentence Parts
... complete in itself. It does not need a receiver of its action. It may take on adverb modifiers in order to make its meaning clearer. -- Linking verb is a verb that connects the subject of the sentence to a noun, pronoun, adjective or any other of the noun substitute that is related to it. ...
... complete in itself. It does not need a receiver of its action. It may take on adverb modifiers in order to make its meaning clearer. -- Linking verb is a verb that connects the subject of the sentence to a noun, pronoun, adjective or any other of the noun substitute that is related to it. ...
Document
... he excludes from this group those words which have no paradigm. So we can’t include the adjective (wooden) in this group because it has no forms “woodener, woodenest”. The second group is classes which differ by the positional indication. Sledda’s classification is similar to the previous one. He d ...
... he excludes from this group those words which have no paradigm. So we can’t include the adjective (wooden) in this group because it has no forms “woodener, woodenest”. The second group is classes which differ by the positional indication. Sledda’s classification is similar to the previous one. He d ...
2. The lexical composition of verbs
... 'My brothers told me the news.' In some cases the extent of morphophonemic fusion between subject and object markers makes the transitive markers appear quite different from the intransitive ones (e. g. in the Maung language of Australia). In Algonquian languages, the transitivity of the verb determ ...
... 'My brothers told me the news.' In some cases the extent of morphophonemic fusion between subject and object markers makes the transitive markers appear quite different from the intransitive ones (e. g. in the Maung language of Australia). In Algonquian languages, the transitivity of the verb determ ...
Phrases, Clauses, and Commas
... nonessential to the meaning of the sentence, it is considered an interrupter and should be set off by commas Carla Harris, who was offered scholarships to three colleges, will go to Vassar in the fall. • BUT, if the clause is essential to clarifying the meaning, you do not use a comma New Orleans is ...
... nonessential to the meaning of the sentence, it is considered an interrupter and should be set off by commas Carla Harris, who was offered scholarships to three colleges, will go to Vassar in the fall. • BUT, if the clause is essential to clarifying the meaning, you do not use a comma New Orleans is ...
skills 7.final
... To answer the questions below, make up some facts about this creature.Then write a paragraph using each kind of sentence at least once. ...
... To answer the questions below, make up some facts about this creature.Then write a paragraph using each kind of sentence at least once. ...
