He made sure we viewed with skepticism claims about (Russian) syntax made solely on the basis of current theoretical models. He subjected assumed analyses to doubt in several well-known cases where his counter-proposals were later vindicated by general changes in theory. Two well-known examples involving passivization come to mind, one general and one specific. First, Babby challenged the gener...

A randomized control trial compared the effects of two kinds of vocabulary instruction on component reading skills of adult struggling readers. Participants seeking alternative high school diplomas received 8 h of scripted tutoring to learn forty academic vocabulary words embedded within a civics curriculum. They were matched for language background and reading levels, then randomly assigned to...

Recent findings from English and Russian have shown that grammatical category plays a key role in stress assignment. In these languages, some grammatical categories have a typical stress pattern and this information is used by readers. However, whether readers are sensitive to smaller distributional differences and other morpho-syntactic properties (e.g., gender, number, person) remains unclear...

The paper presents a morpho-lexical environment, designed for the management of rootoriented natural language dictionaries. It also encapsulates the basic morpho-lexical processings: analysis and synthesis of individual word-forms or compounds (idioms and analytic constructions).

The studies of agrammatism show that not all morpho-syntactic elements are impaired to the same degree and that some of this variation may be due to language-specific differences. This study investigated the production of morpho-syntactic elements in 15 Jordanian-Arabic (JA) speaking individuals with agrammatism and 15 age-matched neurologically healthy individuals. Two experiments were conduct...

In this paper, I argue for a new, theory-neutral approach to polarity effects resting upon the idea that the choice of marker for a given feature specification is determined by the choice of marker for a minimally different specification. In paradigms instantiating polarity effects, the matching of morpho-syntactic and phonological features proceeds by natural class based-rules, but is partly o...

This article describes possibilities of using OntoLex as a model for creating an ontology of morpho-syntactic properties of the Russian language. For this purpose we analysed morpho-syntactic properties of Russian, given in LexInfo and then extended it with grammatical categories that are not represented or that are not correctly defined in LexInfo. The introduced supplements and adjustments en...

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging for morphologically rich languages normally requires the use of handcrafted features that encapsulate clues about the language’s morphology. In this work, we tackle Portuguese POS tagging using a deep neural network that employs a convolutional layer to learn character-level representation of words. We apply the network to three different corpora: the original Mac-M...

Tropical Morpho butterfl ies are known for their iridescence. [ 1 ] Extensive research has been dedicated to analyzing the nanoscale architecture of Morpho butterfl y wings to understand their brilliant blue or white–purple iridescence The wing scales of Morpho butterfl ies contain 3D nanostructures that produce blue iridescent colors. Incident light is diffracted from multilayered nanostructur...