Is past tense production better modelled by a Single Mechanism or a Words and Rules model? We present data concerning a phenomenon that has not been considered by either model-regular past tense verbs with contrasting phonotactics. One set of verbs contains clusters at the inflected verb end that also occur in monomorphemic words ('monomorphemically legal clusters', MLC) whereas the other has c...

Languages without overt marking of tense have been commonly analyzedas having covert tense, either in the form a phonologically null morpheme ora post-LF semantic rule. We argue that notion (neo-Reichenbachian) isnot only unnecessary for analysis Cantonese, but also falls short accountingfor temporal reference this language. Following Pancheva & Zubizarreta (2020,2021) on Paraguayan Guarani...

This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3 ; 5 to 8 ; 5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli. We found a striking contrast between sigmatic and non-sigmatic perfective past tense forms. Sigmatic forms (which have a segmentable perfective ...

There has been debate in the field of nursing regarding the benefit of performing structured hourly rounds on patients. Many hospitals, if not already using the system, are beginning to implement structured hourly rounds in their institutions. The decision for hospitals to implement hourly rounding as part of patient care is primarily driven by patient satisfaction scores and efforts to increas...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors used neural network modeling to investigate the possible mechanistic basis of developmental language delay and to test the viability of the hypothesis that persisting delay and resolving delay lie on a mechanistic continuum with normal development. METHOD The authors used a population modeling approach to study individual rates of development in 1,000 simulate...

When irregular verbs are semantically extended or used in novel ways, speakers often find the-ed past tense more natural than the irregular past tense, as in Ross Perot thought he couldn't be sound-bited. Speakers' preference for-ed with denominal verbs like sound-bited is consistent with the predictions of formal grammatical theory. Many theorists regard this as support for the relevance of th...

The aim of this study is threefold: firstly, to describe the acquisition patterns of Greek past tense by children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI); secondly, to investigate the relationship between the phonological salience of past tense in Greek and its acquisition by language impaired learners; thirdly, to establish an account on the nature of the impairment by comparing the acquisitio...

This paper presents results on using a new inductive logic programming method called Foidl to learn the past tense of English verbs. The past tense task has been widely studied in the context of the symbolic/connectionist debate. Previous papers have presented results using various neural-network and decision-tree learning methods. We have developed a technique for learning a special type of Pr...

Generating language that reeects the temporal organization of represented knowledge requires a language generation model that integrates contemporary theories of tense and aspect, temporal representations , and methods to plan text. This paper presents a model that produces event combinations and appropriate connecting words to relate them. We distinguish between inherent and non-inherent aspec...