This paper presents an approach to acquisition of some lexical and grammatical constraints from large corpora using genetic algorithms. The main aim is to use these constraints to automatically define local grammars that can be used to reduce lexical ambiguity usually found in an initially tagged text. A genetic algorithm for computation of the minimal representation of grammatical features of ...

We examined the production of relative clauses in sentences with a complex noun phrase containing two possible attachment sites for the relative clause (e.g., "Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony."). On the basis of two corpus analyses and two sentence continuation tasks, we conclude that much research about this specific syntactic ambiguity has used complex noun phra...

<p>This research aims to find the use of complex sentences and metaphors in online news article about Covid-19 Asia Times. This employs descriptive qualitative approach examine five articles Indonesia containing seven posted The writer uses Verspoor’s Azar’s theories Lakoff Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory metaphors. result shows that 5 writing authors used 115 40 or (34.8%) which are...

However, there are also many languages in which it is possible to have noun phrases in which there is no noun or pronoun, in which the only constituents of the noun phrase are words that otherwise occur as modifiers of nouns. For example, in the example in (1) from Nkore-Kiga, a Bantu language spoken in Uganda, the subject omuto ‘young’ is a word that normally functions in the language as an ad...

Abstract Previous research on the acquisition of grammatical gender has shown that this property is acquired early in transparent systems such as Russian. However, it not clear to what extent children are sensitive assignment cues and they simply memorize correspondences between frequent lexical items. Furthermore, we do know if bilingual different from monolingual respect. This article reports...

Based on recent findings showing electrophysiological changes in adult language learners after relatively short periods of training, we hypothesized that adult Dutch learners of German would show responses to German gender and adjective declension violations after brief instruction. Adjective declension in German differs from previously studied morphosyntactic regularities in that the required ...

The grammatical relations of noun phrases in sentences are ordered in a hierarchy that is reflected in a wide array of linguistic phenomena. The hypothesis explored in this paper is that this hierarchy is related to the conceptual accessibility of the intended referents of noun phrases that commonly occur in particular relational roles, with relations higher in the hierarchy typically occupied ...