<p>The aim of this research is to find out The Use Compound Words and Grammatical Cohesion in the Online News Headline Column Jakarta Post. method used analyze headlines descriptive qualitative form data from online news column Post by examining each headline containing compound words grammatical cohesion. writer uses Delahunty Garvey’s theory examine Halliday Hasan After analyzes “The Po...

Structural priming occurs when interlocutors copy the syntactic structure of their partners’ utterances, and is diagnostic of their underlying representations. We trained adult participants on an artificial ‘alien’ language in which nouns appeared with adjectives or numerals in two-word phrases; participants then used that language to communicate with an alien interlocutor. Input languages had ...

Across languages subject-verb agreement errors have been established when subjects are producing complex (NP PP) noun-phrases (see Bock, 1995, for an overview). Very recently, Haskell & MacDonalds (2002) proposed a locality-based principle, the principle of proximity, to explain a variety of agreement errors in production. They base they argument partly on preferences in verb number marking in ...

Combination of grammatical roles in relative clauses (RC) is determined by a multitude of factors (Fox and Thompson 1990, Pu 2007, Ming and Chen 2009). This study shows that four factors (discourse functions of RCs, grounding mechanism, information status, and animacy of head nouns) interact with one another to determine which combination is favored in a Chinese discourse. 1. Introduction The p...

Models of interference in sentence processing claim that object relative clauses are harder to process than subject relatives due to interference between the subject and object noun phrase. The interference effect for object relatives at the verb should be more pronounced when the two noun phrases retrieved from memory are similar. To test this, two eye tracking experiments manipulated whether ...

In this paper, we show that the lexical function model for composition of distributional semantic vectors can be improved by adopting a more advanced regression technique. We use the pathwise coordinate-descent optimized elastic-net regression method to estimate the composition parameters, and compare the resulting model with several recent alternative approaches in the task of composing simple...

LEXTER is a software package for extracting terminology. A corpus of French language texts on any subject field is fed in, and LEXTER produces a list of likely terminological units to be submitted to an expert to be validated. To identify the terminological units, LEXTER takes their form into account and proceeds in two main stages : analysis, parsing. In the first stage, LEXTER uses a base of ...

We compare speech production and find morphosyntactic change among children adolescents speaking two closely related varieties of Quechua in Cuzco, Peru, Chuquisaca, Bolivia. languages traditionally employ Object-Verb (OV) word order main clauses, but robust case marking permits other orders, especially to focalize new information through constituent fronting. In not we that schoolchildren ofte...

The field of linguistics has seen a growing interest in the statistics of everyday language. In studying how we acquire language and why some of its aspects are more difficult for us than others, it is critical to understand the linguistic environment to which we are exposed. However, gathering statistics over syntactic structures, even with a syntactically tagged corpus, can be difficult and t...

In this paper, we present empirical data from a corpus study on the linear order of subjects and objects in German main clauses. The aim was to establish the validity of three well-known ordering constraints: given complements tend to occur before new complements, definite before indefinite, and pronoun before full noun phrase complements. Frequencies of occurrences were derived for subject-fir...