Housing in Dundee

The Dundee Treebank

We introduce the Dundee Treebank, a Universal Dependencies-style syntactic annotation layer on top of the English side of the Dundee Corpus. As the Dundee Corpus is an important resource for conducting large-scale psycholinguistic research, we aim at facilitating further research in the field by replacing automatic parses with manually assigned syntax. We report on constructing the treebank, pe...

How to Play Dundee

We consider the following one-player game called Dundee. We are given a deck consisting of si cards of Value i, where i = 1, . . . , v, and an integer m ≤ s1 + · · · + sv. There are m rounds. In each round, the player names a number between 1 and v and draws a random card from the deck. The player loses if the named number coincides with the drawn value in at least one round. The famous Problem...

Dundee Is anaphoric reference cooperative ?

Two experiments investigated whether the choice of anaphoric expression is affected by the presence of an addressee. Following a context sentence and visual scene, participants described a target scene that required anaphoric reference. They described the scene either to an addressee (Experiment 1) or without an addressee (Experiment 2). When an addressee was present in the task, participants u...

Phonetic variation in Standard Scottish English: Rhotics in Dundee

Research on Scottish English /r/ mainly focused on the urban centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh, while the phonetic variation of this sound remains largely unknown in other cities. This paper aims at providing new data to characterize Standard Scottish English and one of its prominent feaures by analyzing the variation of both prevocalic and non-prevocalic /r/ in Dundee. Though age and gender hav...

Determinants of Cyclic Sedimentation in Pottsville Rocks near Dundee, Ohio