This paper reports results on grammatical induction for French. We investigate how to best train a parser on the French Treebank (Abeillé et al., 2003), viewing the task as a trade-off between generalizability and interpretability. We compare, for French, a supervised lexicalized parsing algorithm with a semi-supervised unlexicalized algorithm (Petrov et al., 2006) along the lines of (Crabbé an...

In natural language generation the grammatical component has to be systematically interfaced to the other components of the system, for example, the planning component. Grammatical formalisms can be studied with respect to their suitability for generation. The tree adjoining grammar (TAG) formalism has been previously studied in terms of incremental generation. In this paper, the TAG formalism ...

Four experiments used the head-turn preference procedure to assess whether infants could extract and remember information from auditory strings produced by a miniature artificial grammar. In all four experiments, infants generalized to new structure by discriminating new grammatical strings from ungrammatical ones after less than 2 min exposure to the grammar. Infants acquired specific informat...

Double R Grammar is a linguistic theory of the grammatical encoding and integration of referential and relational meaning in English. Double R Grammar is fundamentally a Cognitive Linguistic theory (Langacker, 1987, 1991; Lakoff, 1988; Talmy, 2003) and the use of the term “grammar” encompasses both meaning and structure as it does in Cognitive Grammar (also known as Cognitive Semantics). Gramma...

In Wve experiments, participants Wrst read grammatical sentences of English and later rated identical, structurally similar, or novel sentences for grammatical acceptability. The experimental method was modeled after “mere exposure” and artiWcial grammar learning paradigms in which preference ratings are enhanced by prior experience with the material. Participants rated sentences as more gramma...

Anterior negativities obtained when a grammatical rule is violated may reflect highly automatic first-pass parsing processes, the detection of a morphosyntactic mismatch, and/or the inability to assign the incoming word to the current phrase structure. However, for some theorists these negativities rather reflect some aspect of working memory processes. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) obt...

The robustness of probabilistic parsing generally comes at the expense of grammaticality judgment – the grammaticality of the most probable output parse remaining unknown. Parsers, such as the Stanford or the Reranking ones, can not discriminate between grammatical and ungrammatical probable parses, whether their surface realisations are themselves grammatical or not. In this paper we show that...

Unlike Lexical Projections, Functional Projections (Extended Projections) are more of an ‘abstract’ in nature. Therefore, Functional Projections seem to be acquired later than Lexical Projections by the L2 learners. The present study investigates Iranian L2 learners’ acquisition of English Extended Projections taking into account their level of grammatical proficiency. Specifically, the aim is ...