ERP (Event Related Potential) measurement using the violation paradigm of Japanese verb conjugation was conducted in order to investigate the mental and neural mechanisms involved in the processing of different conjugation patterns. A LAN-like component followed by a P600 was elicited for the anomaly of using a tense-bearing form with the negative ending, while only P600 was observed for the an...

This paper provides an analysis of the typologically unusual patterns of case assignment in Tlapanec. The theoretical approach relies on a sub-analysis of the markers and on postulating an interaction of markedness constraints. These constraints are implemented in a more general concept of grammar in which morphology applies after syntax, as is the case in Distributed Morphology. According to t...

Abstract The shared-syntax account of bilingual syntactic representations suggests that similar structures from different languages are represented as one in the mind. In this study, we examined degree morpho-syntactic similarity needed for to be shared mind by comparing passive Greek and English. Contrary English, non-active morphology is not restricted passives “by phrase” considered marked. ...

Abstract When a communicator faces word-formulation problem, they may use placeholder (PH) such as whatchamacallit to avoid producing target expression or delay it. A PH is dummy element used fill in the syntactic slot of item that unable unwilling produce (e.g. due memory lapse). Previous studies have generally been concerned with grammatically stable PHs , you-know-what ), ‘grammatically stab...

Objective: The aim of the work is to compare results research on oral language people with neurodegenerative diseases. On basis literature, and available information, methodologies in subject test are presented. Speech variables that have been considered studies were presented, including linguistic, phonetic phonological features, prosodic, acoustic, lexical, semantic, syntactic morpho-syntacti...

Stanford Dependencies (SD) provide a functional characterization of the grammatical relations in syntactic parse-trees. The SD representation is useful for parser evaluation, for downstream applications, and, ultimately, for natural language understanding, however, the design of SD focuses on structurally-marked relations and under-represents morphosyntactic realization patterns observed in Mor...

In the framework of statistical machine translation (SMT), correspondences between the words in the source and the target language are learned from bilingual corpora on the basis of so-called alignment models. Among other things these are meant to capture the differences in word order in different languages. In this paper we show that SMT can take advantage of the explicit introduction of some ...