VOICE SPECIFICATION IN PHRASE STRUCTURE

A Voice-Enabled Phrase-Based Translation System

Prosodic Structure, Performance Structure and Phrase Structure

It is natural to expect phrase structure to be important in predicting prosodic phrasing. Yet there appears to be a concensus that syntactic phrases do not correspond well to prosodic phrasing, and independent structures have been proposed to account for prosody. I propose that the problem with phrase structure lies with the particular measures of boundary strength applied to syntactic structur...

Noun Phrase Structure

In discussing the structure of noun phrases crosslinguistically, I will assume a rather rough characterization of noun phrases, as syntactic constituents which serve as arguments of verbs. There are a variety of ways in which this is inadequate as a precise definition and there are a number of legitimate questions about exactly what ought to be considered a noun phrase, but these issues are som...

Chapter : Phrase Structure Grammar *

To understand the properties of modern phrase structure grammars, it is useful to place their development in a wider formal and historical context. Phrase structure grammars and associated notions of phrase structure analysis have their proximate origins in models of Immediate Constituent (IC) analysis. Although inspired by the programmatic syntactic remarks in Bloomfield (), these models w...

\Grammarless" Phrase Structure Grammar

We sketch an axiomatic reformalization of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG)|a deenition purely within the language of mathematical logic of the theory GPSG embodies. While this treatment raises a number of theoretical issues for GPSG, our focus is not the reformalization itself but rather the method we employ. The model-theoretic approach it exempliies can be seen as a natural step in...