Probabilistic synchronous context-free grammar (PSCFG) translation models define weighted transduction rules that represent translation and reordering operations via nonterminal symbols. In this work, we investigate the source of the improvements in translation quality reported when using two PSCFG translation models (hierarchical and syntax-augmented), when extending a state-of-the-art phraseb...

In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three modules (morphology, syntax and syntax-semantics). compared the L3 learners to Norwegian 90) Russian 74) second (L2) English. predicted simultaneous facilitative non-facilitati...

In linguistics, there are various approaches to the selection of sentence elements: members, word classes, theme and rheme, etc. One types division can be syntax analysis, namely, allocation differential syntactic-semantic features elementary syntactic units in structure sentences. It is known that all existing practical theoretical grammars analysis by dividing involved device into primary sec...

Theories of spoken word production agree that semantic and phonological representations are activated in spoken word production. There is less agreement concerning the role of syntax. In this study we investigated noun syntax activation in English bare noun naming, using mass and count nouns. Fourteen healthy controls and 13 speakers with aphasia took part. Participants named mass and count nou...

This research involved the use of word distributions and morphological knowledge by speakers of Arabic learning English connected different allomorphs in order to realize how the morphology and syntax of English gives meaning through using interactive crossword puzzles (ICP). Fifteen chapters covered with a class of nine learners over an academic year of an intensive English program were review...