In this paper, I draw on data from Russian to argue for an asymmetry between Goal and Source prepositional phrases. Source prepositional phrases are structurally ambiguous; they can occur both as arguments and adjuncts in certain syntactic contexts. Goal prepositional phrases are unambiguously arguments. I claim that Source prepositions have lexically specified semantics, which determines their...

Single words, familiar phrases (idioms and speech formulas), and novel sentences (matched to the familiar phrases in length, frequency, and structure) were selected for a picture-matching auditory comprehension task and administered to left- and right-brain damaged (LBD, RBD) subjects. The groups did not differ in single word comprehension. A 2 x 2 ANOVA revealed opposite patterns on the two ot...

This work is a study of the delimitation of complex prepositions (CP) as lexical units, items of a computational lexicon that includes compounds and phrases. In addition, given the utmost importance of spotting noun phrases (NP) in document retrieval systems, parsing prepositional structures such as “Prep1 N Prep2 X” prevents the fragment “N Prep2 X” from being detected as a noun phrase, i.e. t...

Evidence is provided that the patterns of pauses that occur during the process of writing simple word phrases constitute a substantial temporal signal that reflects the structure of the chunks in working memory. This temporal signal is apparent in un-aggregated data for individual participants in single trials. Five and six word phrases, with word lengths of one to six letters were used. Pause ...

Sentences and phrases that represent a certain meaning often exhibit patterns of variation where they differ from a basic structural form by one or two words. We present an algorithm that utilizes multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) to generate a representation of groups of phrases that possess the same semantic meaning but also share in common the same basic word sequence structure. The MSA en...

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We describe an investigation aimed at furthering the understanding of how speakers communicate discourse structural information using intonational features. We used the read and spontaneous speech of two speakers from the Boston Directions Corpus (BDC) to automatically identify elements of discourse structure based on intonational features. Unlike previous acoustic-prosodic analyses of discours...

Nominalization is a linguistic phenomenon in which events usually described in terms of clauses are expressed in the form of noun phrases. Extracting event structures is an important task in text mining applications. To achieve this goal, clauses are parsed and the argument structure of main verbs are extracted from the parsed results. This kind of preprocessing has been commonly done in the pa...

RÉSUMÉ. Le modèle classique des processus de décision markoviens repose implicitement sur une structure de préférence induite par l’existence de coûts scalaires additifs et l’utilisation d’un certain critère d’évaluation des politiques (total, total pondéré, moyenne, ...). Cette structure de préférence s’appuie sur des hypothèses fortes permettant de vérifier les principes de la programmation d...

« Twictée » vise à développer les compétences orthographiques des élèves de l’école et du collège, grâce l’échange, entre classes distantes, phrases dictées corrections justifiées, au moyen réseau Twitter. Cet article interroge convergences divergences perceptions numérique qu’ont enseignants participant ce dispositif. Par l’analyse contenu thématique trois séries d’entretiens 19 cycle 3 deux 4...