Abstract How do native speakers process texts with anomalous learner syntax? Second-language learners of Norwegian, and other verb-second (V2) languages, frequently place the verb in third position (e.g., *Adverbial-Subject-Verb), although it is mandatory for these languages to appear second (Adverbial-Verb-Subject). In an eye-tracking study, Norwegian read sentences either grammatical V2 or un...

Roland, Douglas William (Ph.D., Linguistics) Verb Sense and Verb Subcategorization Probabilities Thesis directed by Associate Professor Daniel S. Jurafsky This dissertation investigates a variety of problems in psycholinguistics and computational linguistics caused by the differences in verb subcategorization probabilities found between various corpora and experimental data sets. For psycholing...

We present a factorized compositional distributional semantics model for the representation of transitive verb constructions. Our model first produces (subject, verb) and (verb, object) vector representations based on the similarity of the nouns in the construction to each of the nouns in the vocabulary and the tendency of these nouns to take the subject and object roles of the verb. These vect...

This paper discusses recent research on methods for estimating configuration parameters for the Matrix Comparator used for linking unstandardized or heterogeneously standardized references. The matrix comparator computes the aggregate similarity between the tokens (words) in a pair of references. The two most critical parameters for the matrix comparator for obtaining the best linking results a...

Predictive syntactic processing plays an essential role in language comprehension. In our previous study using Japanese object-verb (OV) sentences, we showed that the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) responses to a verb increased at 120-140 ms after the verb onset, indicating predictive effects caused by a preceding object. To further elucidate the automaticity of the predictive effects in the...

In Czech corpora compound verb groups are usually tagged in word-by-word manner. As a consequence, some of the morphological tags of particular components of the verb group lose their original meaning. We present a method for automatic recognition of compound verb groups in Czech. From an annotated corpus 126 definite clause grammar rules were constructed. These rules describe all compound verb...

"Clinical linguistics analyzes and describes communication language impairment in patients, a field which aphasia phonetic features have been widely studied. In this paper, I propound syntax-semantics analysis by means of the linking algorithm shown Role Reference Grammar (Van Valin LaPolla 1997; Van 2005), will be applied to sample transcriptions from corpus compiled Peraita Grasso (2010) with...

This paper presents examples in which hlk ‘walk, go’ and ʔth ‘come’ appear multi-verb constructions conforming to the definition of asymmetrical serial verb (SVCs). In these constructions, do not be used with their concrete lexical senses as verbs constituting predicate a separate clause. Rather, they are found V1 position minor contributing an aspectual nuance immediacy major V2 position. Broa...

Children use syntax to guide verb learning. We asked whether the syntactic structure in which a novel verb occurs is meaningful to children even without a concurrent scene from which to infer the verb's semantic content. In two experiments, 2-year-olds observed dialogues in which interlocutors used a new verb in transitive ("Jane blicked the baby!") or intransitive ("Jane blicked!") sentences. ...

When native English speakers say active and passive sentences, verb stems are longer in passive sentences than in their active counterparts (Stromswold et al., 2002; Rehrig et al., 2015) because phrase-final lengthening and polysyllabic shortening cause the verb stem vowel to be longer in passives (Aveni et al., 2016; Mayro et al., 2016). Eye-tracking and gating studies of unaltered sentences r...