A parameter-free underspecification approach to complementizer agreement

A Uniform Approach to Underspecification and Parallelism

We propose a unified framework in which to treat semantic underspecification and parallelism phenomena in discourse. The framework employs a constraint language that can express equality and subtree relations between finite trees. In addition, our constraint language can express the equality up-to relation over trees which captures parallelism between them. The constraints are solved by context...

“parameter Free Π1–induction and Restricted Exponentiation” and “a Model Theoretic Approach to Parameter Free

This work falls into two parts. In the first part, we characterize the sets of all Π2 and all B(Σ1) (= boolean combinations of Σ1) theorems of IΠ1 in terms of restricted exponentiation; and use these characterizations to prove that both sets are not deductively equivalent. In the second part, we investigate how these results generalize to IΠ2 . We present a new model–theoretic approach to IΠ − ...

Underspecification and Neutrality: a unified approach to syncretism

In this paper I discuss the phenomenon of syncretism in German and show that current type-based approaches are unable to combine the treatment of feature indeterminacy with the virtues of underspecification. I will then propose a revised organisation of the inflectional type hierarchies suggested by Daniels (2001), drawing on a systematic distinction between inherent and external (case) require...

Context-Free Representational Underspecification for NLG

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...