This paper presents ‘source’ as the distinctive feature for a twofold semantic categorization for Chinese modal expressions. Previous studies have characterized Chinese modals as words used to express the speaker’s opinion or attitude. Yet given the absence of morphological and syntactic distinctions in Chinese, there has been little consensus among different accounts as to within what limit th...

A hybrid modal expansion that combines the free field Green's function and a modal expansion will be presented in this paper based on a review and an extension of the existing modal analysis theories for the sound field in enclosures. The enclosed sound field will be separated into the direct field and reverberant field, which have been treated together in the traditional modal analysis. Studie...

When a child acquires her first modal verbs, is she learning how to map words in the language onto innate concepts of possibility, necessity, and impossibility? Or does also have construct concepts? If are constructed, talk about possibilities play role construction process? Exploring this hypothesis space requires testing children's acquisition vocabulary alongside nonverbal tests their concep...

Such verbs contain two or more prefixes and the imperfective suffix. In a given context they behave as either unambiguous perfective or unambiguous imperfective verbs, so their grammatical status is fully resolved. Now, this behavior fails to be revealed by the standard diagnostic tests used to determine the perfective or imperfective status of Russian verbs (see Section 3): under those tests, ...

In this paper we explore the role of verb frequencies and the number of clusters in soft-clustering approaches as a tool for automatic semantic classification. Relying on a large-scale setup including 4,871 base verb types and 3,173 complex verb types, and focusing on synonymy as a taskindependent goal in semantic classification, we demonstrate that low-frequency German verbs are clustered sign...

In many areas of language acquisition, researchers have suggested that semantic generality plays an important role in determining the order of acquisition of particular lexical forms. However, generality is typically confounded with the effects of input frequency and it is therefore unclear to what extent semantic generality or input frequency determines the early acquisition of particular lexi...

Managerial financial fraud is estimated in the billions of dollars annually in the United States. Since fraud includes obfuscation, misdirection, and fabrication, this study proposes using deception theory as a means of detecting fraud in textual portions of financial statements (10K). A corpus of 101 fraudulent 10Ks was collected from the Securities and Exchange Commission along with 101 match...

This thesis investigates how the syntactical behavior as well as the semantics of verbs can be grounded in the cognitive architecture responsible for action representations. Psychological research on action representation in the human brain is discussed. Based on this, a composite conceptual space for action representation is formalized to model as closely as possible human action representatio...