Research has shown that givenness is one of several factors that influence the choice of word order with the Dative Alternation in languages such as English. This paper investigates to what extent Norwegian children between the ages of 4;2 and 6;0 are sensitive to this factor in production. In order to test this, an experiment was carried out in which the children were prompted to produce struc...

This study investigated the effect of more than two consecutive NPs bearing the nominative case-marker -ga on the processing difficulty associated with Japanese multiply center-embedded sentences. Experiment 1 found that NP-ga sequences are rated substantially less favorably for processability ratings than their matched counterparts; thus, theories that predict processing load must offer an acc...

We show that generation of contextually appropriate syntactic variation can be improved using a model based on automatically extracted features. We adapt a model for predicting dative alternation from (Bresnan et al. 2005); this model incorporates lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features. We evaluate the effect of using different types of feature on this classification task and show ...

Down syndrome (DS) is the most prevalent form of mental retardation caused by genetic abnormalities in humans. This has been successfully modeled in mice to generate the Ts65Dn mouse, a genetic model of DS. This transgenic mouse model shares a number of physical and functional abnormalities with people with DS, including changes in the structure and function of neuronal circuits. Significant ab...

Introduction: In the quest for search of novel pharmacotherapy from medicinal plants psychiatric disorders, it has progressed appreciably past few decades and their therapeutic potential been evaluated in a variety murine models. Cassia singueana Del. is commonly used plant Nigeria management insanity as lactation enhancer. Aim: The main aim this study was to evaluate cognitive extract against ...

In other words, the valence alternations in Modern Greek we focus on in this paper are the ones involving direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional complements. Such alternation patterns in Modern Greek characterize mainly the behaviour of verbal predicates which participate in the so-called Locative Alternation phenomena. The rest of the paper is structured as follow...

Spontaneous rhythmic activity is a ubiquitous phenomenon in developing neural networks and is assumed to play an important role in the elaboration of mature circuitry. Here we describe the day-by-day evolution of spontaneous activity in the embryonic mouse spinal cord and show that, at a specific developmental stage, 2 distinct rhythms coexist. On embryonic days E12.5 and E13.5, we observed a s...

We present a method that uses alternation data to add new entries to an existing bilingual valency lexicon. If the existing lexicon has only one half of the alternation, then our method constructs the other half. The new entries have detailed information about argument structure and selectional restrictions. In this paper we focus on one class of alternations, but our method is applicable to an...