Elicited narrative studies have shown that the underlying pragmatic factor of empathy is relatively preserved in aphasic speakers of Japanese and English (7 Japanese and 14 English-speaking aphasics of varied diagnostic types). Occasional "reversal errors" can be explained in terms of a conflict between the normal encoding of the empathic characteristics of an event and the syntactic limitation...

This paper presents a syntactic method to check so-called assignable clauses of annotated Java programs. Assignable clauses describe which variables may be assigned by a method. Their correctness is crucial for reasoning about class specifications. The method that we propose is incomplete, as it only makes a syntactic check and it does not take aliasing or expression evaluation into account, bu...

This paper argues in favor of a linguisticallyinformed error classification for SMT to identify system weaknesses and map them to possible syntactic, semantic and structural fixes. We propose a scheme which includes both linguistic-oriented error categories as well as SMT-oriented edit errors, and evaluate an English-Spanish system and an English Basque system developed for a Q&A scenario in th...

We propose a novel way of incorporating dependency parse and word co-occurrence information into a state-of-the-art web-scale ngram model for spelling correction. The syntactic and distributional information provides extra evidence in addition to that provided by a web-scale n-gram corpus and especially helps with data sparsity problems. Experimental results show that introducing syntactic feat...

This research was purposed to find out the syntactic translation errors from source language (Bahasa Indonesia) target (English) in communication students’ abstract of Universitas Bengkulu. The method that used by researcher this qualitative along with content analysis approach. error sources were classified as morphological, lexical and based on Sager’s theory. However, focused abstracts thesi...

The acquisition of clitics still remains a highly controversial issue in Greek literature despite the bulk studies performed. Object have been shown to be early acquired by monolingual children terms production rates, whereas only proficient bilingual achieve target-like performance. Crucially, errors gender marking are persistent for and even when adult-like rates achieved. This study aims rea...

A time-based approach to agrammatic speech is presented. The paper consists of three parts. In the first part, the literature which deals with agrammatic comprehension as a problem of disrupted timing, that is, as a slow-down of syntactic computation and/or a rapid decay of the results of syntactic processing, is reviewed. In a second part, the hypothesis that similar timing problems cause diff...

This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)–S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish–L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces: (i) LEXICON–SYNTAX: the verb is unaccusative (U...

Automatic analysis of impaired speech for screening or diagnosis is a growing research field; however there are still many barriers to a fully automated approach. When automatic speech recognition is used to obtain the speech transcripts, sentence boundaries must be inserted before most measures of syntactic complexity can be computed. In this paper, we consider how language impairments can aff...

This article presents the methods, results, and precision of the syntactic annotation process of the Rhapsodie Treebank of spoken French. The Rhapsodie Treebank is an 33,000 word corpus annotated for prosody and syntax, licensed in its entirety under Creative Commons. The syntactic annotation contains two levels: a macro-syntactic level, containing a segmentation into illocutionary units (inclu...