PURPOSE Grammatical encoding (GE) is impaired in agrammatic aphasia; however, the nature of such deficits remains unclear. We examined grammatical planning units during real-time sentence production in speakers with agrammatic aphasia and control speakers, testing two competing models of GE. We queried whether speakers with agrammatic aphasia produce sentences word by word without advanced plan...

Lexical-Functional Grammar (Kaplan and Bresnan, 1982) f-structures are bilexical labelled dependency representations. We show that the Naive Bayes classifier is able to guess missing grammatical function labels (i.e. bilexical dependency labels) with reasonably high accuracy (82–91%). In the experiments we use f-structure parser output for English and German Europarl data, automatically “broken...

We present a novel scheme for wordbased Japanese typed dependency parser which integrates syntactic structure analysis and grammatical function analysis such as predicate-argument structure analysis. Compared to bunsetsu-based dependency parsing, which is predominantly used in Japanese NLP, it provides a natural way of extracting syntactic constituents, which is useful for downstream applicatio...

postposing is a feature of spoken language. it is a process that postposes a preverbal constituent to a position after the verb, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence. in this study we focus on this linguistic phenomenon and its relation to factors such as grammatical weight, definiteness, animacy and information structure. to investigate the occurrence of this process and its in...

critical discourse analysis has proved to be of great help in analyzing the form and meaning of literary works. certain scholars such as norman fairclough have greatly improved such studies. the present study deals with one of the political letters of mas'ud i of ghazni to arsalan khan written by his secretary abul-fazl bayhaqi. the complete version of the letter has been recorded in bayhaqi’s ...

The term Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) first appeared in print in the 1982 volume edited by Joan Bresnan: The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations, the culmination of many years of research. LFG differs from both transformational grammar and relational grammar in assuming a single level of syntactic structure. LFG rejects syntactic movement of constituents as the mechanism by which...

This study attempted to investigate the impact of teacher’s code-switching on the acquisition of a problematic grammatical structure, namely, object relative clauses, by intermediate EFL learners. Moreover, a secondary objective of the study was to determine the EFL learners’ attitudes and opinions regarding the effectiveness of teacher’s code-switching in their learning of a specific aspect of...

Arabic language is very rich in derivations, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. The problem of determining the correct meaning of a word in a non-vowelized Arabic sentence is not a trivial task since Arabic is very rich in the polysemy phenomena. This paper attempts to reveal the word sense ambiguity, by building a semantic parser powered by a statistical semantic analyzer, which may aid i...

Title of dissertation: THE STRUCTURE OF MEMORY MEETS MEMORY FOR STRUCTURE IN LINGUISTIC COGNITION Matthew Webb Wagers Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor Colin Phillips Department of Linguistics This dissertation is concerned with the problem of how structured linguistic representations interact with the architecture of human memory. Much recent work has attempted to ...