The use of syntactic structure in general and heads of syntactic constituents in particular has recently been shown to be beneecial for statistical language modeling. This paper provides an insightful analysis of this role of syntactic structure. It is shown that the predictive power of syntactic heads is mostly complementary to the predictive power of N-grams: they help in positions where an i...

A controlled reading experiment reveals that stress-based linguistic rhythm impinges on syntactic ambiguity resolution in silent and oral reading. The results suggest that, at points of syntactic underspecification, the accruing prosodic representation may affect even the earliest stages of structure building, viz. the analysis of syntactic features of an ambiguous word. Such an effect remains ...

This research discusses Mandarin syntactic errors of Indonesian learners, performed at the elementary stage. It aims to categorize and identify them. The researchers follow Corder’s steps in error analysis. paper considers four categories errors: omission, addition, replacement, disorder. Finally, seek explain why students commit such errors. results data analysis show that most are classified ...

As the amount of textual information available through the World Wide Web grows, there is a growing need for high-precision IR systems that enable a user to nd useful information from the masses of available textual data. Phrases have traditionally been regarded as precision-enhancing devices and have proved useful as content-identiiers in representing documents. In this study, we compare the u...

The model theoretic tradition in semantic analysis maintains that determiners denote functions from properties to sets of properties, where in an extensional model a property is a set of individuals. For a determiner d and properties p and q I write ‘d(p,q)’ for ‘[d(p)](q)’ and refer to p as d’s ‘restrictor’ and to q as its ‘nuclear scope’. Barwise and Cooper (1981) and Keenan and Stavi (1986) ...