Predicative Clauses in Albanian Language

Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems

The emergence of relative clauses in early child language

This paper examines the development of relative clauses in early child language. It is argued that relative clauses constitute a network of related constructions that children acquire in a piecemeal bottom-up way, starting with relative clauses that are only little different from simple sentences which are gradually extended into more complex grammatical patterns. The acquisition process is dri...

The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in a Third Language

As is well known, the study of L2 acquisition provides essential insights about the language learning process in general. Approaching language learning through the study of L1 acquisition alone yields an incomplete and potentially erroneous view of the language faculty. For example, L2 study critically informs such debates as the "maturation of linguistic principles" proposed for L1 learning. P...

Operational Semantics of an Imperative Language in Definite Clauses

We present the “big-step” operational semantics of a small programming language NIL (Natural Imperative Language) in definite clauses, thus building on the fixpoint semantics of logic programs. NIL operates on a state which is just a sequence of counters. As basic statements NIL has incrementation, decrementation and test for null. NIL allows for sequential composition and non-deterministic cho...

The schwa in albanian

In Albanian, the schwa as a phoneme is restricted to the Tosk variety, whereas it is described as a back, rounded vowel in the Gheg variety. The first two formants of schwa-vowels of both Tosk and Gheg speakers (within and outside the Republic of Albania) have been investigated. No differences could be found within the borders of the Republic of Albania, whereas speakers outside the borders dis...