Broca’s agrammatic aphasia entails a syntactic deficit both in sentence comprehension and in sentence production. This chapter describes the intriguing pattern of deficits in speech production, and shows that this type of inquiry interacts with linguistic theory as well as with knowledge about brain-language relations. The syntactic tree, a syntactic construct that has originally been suggested...

Perceptual systems often force systematically biased interpretations upon sensory input. These interpretations are obligatory, inaccessible to conscious control, and prevent observers from perceiving alternative percepts. Here we report a similarly impenetrable phenomenon in the domain of language, where the syntactic system prevents listeners from detecting a simple perceptual pattern. Healthy...

The numerous different mathematical methods used to solve pattern recognition snags may be assembled into two universal approaches:the decision-theoretic approach and the syntactic (structural) approach. In this paper,at first syntactic pattern recognition method and formal grammars are described and then has been investigated one of the techniques in syntactic pattern recognition called top –d...

The paper focuses on the issues of language structures disambiguation in machine translation.The moodel for establishing semantic content of syntactic structures in the English and Russian languages is proposed. Particular attention is given to syntactic polysemy and ambiguity, and the mechanisms of disambiguation. The phenomenon of syntactic polysemy determines the possible multiple transfer s...

Abstract Although Verb-Object (VO) is the basic unmarked constituent order of predicates in Present-Day English, earlier stages language Object-Verb (OV) preferred pattern some syntactic contexts. OV are significantly frequent Old and Middle still attested up to 1550, when they “appear dwindle away” (Moerenhout & van der Wurff 2005: 83). This study looks at Early Modern English (EModE), usi...

the definition and typological description of the category of voice can be provided in two ways: i) at the level of semantic arguments (or semantic roles), ii) at the level of grammatical relations (or syntactic functions). the most important theoretical concept that is determined in terms of these two levels of representations and enables one to capture the rich variety of voices is that of di...

Since Chomsky's pioneering work on syntactic structures, comparative psychologists interested in the study of language evolution have targeted pattern complexity, using formal mathematical grammars, as the key to organizing language-relevant cognitive processes across species. This focus on formal syntactic complexity, however, often disregards the close interaction in real-world signals betwee...

Odin is an information extraction framework that applies cascades of finite state automata over both surface text and syntactic dependency graphs. Support for syntactic patterns allow us to concisely define relations that are otherwise difficult to express in languages such as Common Pattern Specification Language (CPSL), which are currently limited to shallow linguistic features. The interacti...

Unrestricted text analysis requires an accurate syntactic analysis but structural ambiguity is one of the most difficult problems to resolve. Researchers have tried different approaches to obtain the correct syntactic structure from analyzed sentences but not successful results have been obtained. Two different approaches have traditionally applied to syntactic analysis: constituent grammars an...