Interplay between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence
... of words (see Vosse & Kempen, 2000 for a computational model). The approach taken here was to exploit the fact that different types of electrophysiological brain activity (i.e., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]) have been shown to honor the distinction between the processing of syntactic and se ...
... of words (see Vosse & Kempen, 2000 for a computational model). The approach taken here was to exploit the fact that different types of electrophysiological brain activity (i.e., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]) have been shown to honor the distinction between the processing of syntactic and se ...
Implicit Memory for New Associations: An
... Roediger and his colleagues (e.g., Blaxton, 1989; Roediger et al., 1989), in which it is assumed that the degree of datadriven and conceptually driven processing varies across memory tasks. Rather than emphasizing the relative amount of contribution made by these two types of processing to performan ...
... Roediger and his colleagues (e.g., Blaxton, 1989; Roediger et al., 1989), in which it is assumed that the degree of datadriven and conceptually driven processing varies across memory tasks. Rather than emphasizing the relative amount of contribution made by these two types of processing to performan ...
Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies
... Complexity hypothesis in a self-paced reading setting is tested in experimental studies for Japanese (Yamashita, 1997; Mazuka, Itoh, and Kondo, to appear; Miyamoto and Takahashi, 2000) and for Slavic languages, SerboCroatian (Stojanović, 1999) and Russian (Sekerina, 1997), these studies will be pres ...
... Complexity hypothesis in a self-paced reading setting is tested in experimental studies for Japanese (Yamashita, 1997; Mazuka, Itoh, and Kondo, to appear; Miyamoto and Takahashi, 2000) and for Slavic languages, SerboCroatian (Stojanović, 1999) and Russian (Sekerina, 1997), these studies will be pres ...
melanesian pidgin and second language acquisition
... These most fluent speakers of the prevailing pidgin interacted with English-speakers much more than did the laborers they recruited and supervised; many of them seem to have commanded a register closer to standard English as well as a pidgin that had come by the 1870s to incorporate many syntactic a ...
... These most fluent speakers of the prevailing pidgin interacted with English-speakers much more than did the laborers they recruited and supervised; many of them seem to have commanded a register closer to standard English as well as a pidgin that had come by the 1870s to incorporate many syntactic a ...
Starting with complex primitives pays off: complicate locally, simplify
... languages of G and G be the same (i.e., they are weakly equivalent) then any CFG can be lexicalized. This follows from the fact that any CFG can be put in the Greibach normal form (see Linz, 2001) where each rule is of the form A → w B1 B2 . . . Bn where w is a lexical item and the B s are non-ter ...
... languages of G and G be the same (i.e., they are weakly equivalent) then any CFG can be lexicalized. This follows from the fact that any CFG can be put in the Greibach normal form (see Linz, 2001) where each rule is of the form A → w B1 B2 . . . Bn where w is a lexical item and the B s are non-ter ...
Combinatorial structures and processing in Neural Blackboard
... are ‘in situ’ [4]. That is, wherever a concept is activated it always consists of the activation of the assembly of that concept or a part of it. In this view, it is not possible to make a copy of a concept representation and store it elsewhere in the brain to, for example, create a combinatorial st ...
... are ‘in situ’ [4]. That is, wherever a concept is activated it always consists of the activation of the assembly of that concept or a part of it. In this view, it is not possible to make a copy of a concept representation and store it elsewhere in the brain to, for example, create a combinatorial st ...
Phraseology and linguistic theory
... As to the third criterion, it is probably fair to say that there is little work which has defined phraseologisms solely on the basis of some quantitative criterion based on their frequency of occurrence (and/or additional frequency information). True, some scholars have used a threshold of absolute ...
... As to the third criterion, it is probably fair to say that there is little work which has defined phraseologisms solely on the basis of some quantitative criterion based on their frequency of occurrence (and/or additional frequency information). True, some scholars have used a threshold of absolute ...
Optimality Theory and Human Sentence Processing: The
... 1a. Joe kissed Ann and / Mary / today. (NP-coordination) 1b. Joe kissed Ann and / Mary / laughed. (S-coordination) It was assumed that readers prefer to take the ambiguous NP Mary as part of the direct object of kissed as in (1a). Consequently, they will run into trouble when reading the final segme ...
... 1a. Joe kissed Ann and / Mary / today. (NP-coordination) 1b. Joe kissed Ann and / Mary / laughed. (S-coordination) It was assumed that readers prefer to take the ambiguous NP Mary as part of the direct object of kissed as in (1a). Consequently, they will run into trouble when reading the final segme ...
Optimality Theory and Human Sentence Processing: The Case of Coordination
... the VP must have non-canonical word order. In English and Dutch, VPs do not normally begin with an NP in a nonembedded clause. The canonical word order in main clauses in these languages is SVO. Because, in (5), the first constituent following the conjunction is an NP, if the coordinate structure is ...
... the VP must have non-canonical word order. In English and Dutch, VPs do not normally begin with an NP in a nonembedded clause. The canonical word order in main clauses in these languages is SVO. Because, in (5), the first constituent following the conjunction is an NP, if the coordinate structure is ...
Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure
... utterances. More generally, the argument structure frames for verbs predicted by theories of the "mental lexicon" are only recoverable for natural discourse to the degree that the verb is unusual. For the more common verbs such as to get exceptions and special uses abound to the point of invalidatin ...
... utterances. More generally, the argument structure frames for verbs predicted by theories of the "mental lexicon" are only recoverable for natural discourse to the degree that the verb is unusual. For the more common verbs such as to get exceptions and special uses abound to the point of invalidatin ...
Activation of phonological codes during reading: Evidence
... & Radeau, 1990). For each of the story-words, we constructed two yoked stimulus foils : a nonword homophone foil (pseudohomophone) and a nonword spelling control foil (control). For each of the frequency group, half (15) of the pseudohomophones and half (15) of the controls were orthographically sim ...
... & Radeau, 1990). For each of the story-words, we constructed two yoked stimulus foils : a nonword homophone foil (pseudohomophone) and a nonword spelling control foil (control). For each of the frequency group, half (15) of the pseudohomophones and half (15) of the controls were orthographically sim ...
Connotative Meaning
... of meaning in a language without any reference to the context of situation The study of linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences is the field of semantics. Linguistic semantics deals with the conventional meaning conveyed by the use of words, phrases and sentences of a language. ...
... of meaning in a language without any reference to the context of situation The study of linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences is the field of semantics. Linguistic semantics deals with the conventional meaning conveyed by the use of words, phrases and sentences of a language. ...
Lect 17 theories1
... 3. Substratist (1880s): borrow words from lexifier but retain grammar and phonology of the substrate (creole as hybrid). 4. Baby-talk/Foreigner simplification (1930s): imperfect second language learning plus simplification of input. 5. Polygenesis (1950s): substrate influence combined with super ...
... 3. Substratist (1880s): borrow words from lexifier but retain grammar and phonology of the substrate (creole as hybrid). 4. Baby-talk/Foreigner simplification (1930s): imperfect second language learning plus simplification of input. 5. Polygenesis (1950s): substrate influence combined with super ...
Perception of tone contrasts in Cantonese as a heritage
... testing, accuracy on non tone trials (all p<.001) • Marginal R2: 35.49% ...
... testing, accuracy on non tone trials (all p<.001) • Marginal R2: 35.49% ...
Word Relationship 1 Running head: EFFECTS OF WORD
... led to avid research in the field in the past 30 years. The topic of this research is to examine the relationship between word relatedness and reaction time in the lexical decision task. Many researchers have studied the concept of word relatedness in different ways. Word relatedness is usually dete ...
... led to avid research in the field in the past 30 years. The topic of this research is to examine the relationship between word relatedness and reaction time in the lexical decision task. Many researchers have studied the concept of word relatedness in different ways. Word relatedness is usually dete ...
Theoretical Basis for this Curriculum
... experience actively engaged in organizing and interpreting new experience. However, schemata are not fixed, but expand and evolve as new information is acquired (Anderson and Pearson, 1984). It is this dynamic nature of the schema which is most salient for reading comprehension models. Sharkey (1990 ...
... experience actively engaged in organizing and interpreting new experience. However, schemata are not fixed, but expand and evolve as new information is acquired (Anderson and Pearson, 1984). It is this dynamic nature of the schema which is most salient for reading comprehension models. Sharkey (1990 ...
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... Describe Berko’s “wug test.” What does it demonstrate? Does children’s syntactic comprehension correlate to their syntactic production? Explain. How do kids use word order to tell who does what to whom? How does this relate to their comprehension of passive sentences (such as “Bill was killed by Joh ...
... Describe Berko’s “wug test.” What does it demonstrate? Does children’s syntactic comprehension correlate to their syntactic production? Explain. How do kids use word order to tell who does what to whom? How does this relate to their comprehension of passive sentences (such as “Bill was killed by Joh ...