This study investigates how the parser employs thematic and contextual information in resolving temporary ambiguities during sentence processing. We report results from a sentence-completion task and from a self-paced reading experiment with native speakers of Greek examining two constructions under different referential context conditions: relative clauses (RCs) preceded by complex noun phrase...

We present an approach to model hidden attributes in the compositional semantics of adjective-noun phrases in a distributional model. For the representation of adjective meanings, we reformulate the pattern-based approach for attribute learning of Almuhareb (2006) in a structured vector space model (VSM). This model is complemented by a structured vector space representing attribute dimensions ...

We investigated the processes of lexical retrieval during the production of adjectival noun phrases (NPs) such as ‘‘the blue kite’’. We used various current assumptions about the scope of grammatical and phonological encoding and about the locus of the classic frequency effect to derive predictions about possible frequency effects in the NP naming task. The predictions were tested in two pictur...

A classic debate in the psychology of language concerns the question of the grain-size of the linguistic information that is stored in memory. One view is that only morphologically simple forms are stored (e.g., 'car', 'red'), and that more complex forms of language such as multi-word phrases (e.g., 'red car') are generated on-line from the simple forms. In two experiments we tested this view. ...

1. T H E P R O B L E M W I T H P A R S E R S A parser is a device that provides a description of the syntactic phrases that make up a sentence. For a speech understanding task such as ATIS, the parser has two roles. First, it should provide a description of the phrases in a sentence so these phrases can be interpreted by a subsequent semantic processor. The second function is to provide a langu...

Two experiments investigated the development of fluency in interpreting adjective-noun phrases in 30- and 36-month-old English-learning children. Using online processing measures, children's gaze patterns were monitored as they heard the familiar adjective-noun phrases (e.g. blue car) in visual contexts where the adjective was either informative (e.g. blue car paired with red car or red house) ...

Three experiments investigated semantic and syntactic effects in the production of phrases in Dutch. Bilingual participants were presented with English nouns and were asked to produce an adjective + noun phrase in Dutch including the translation of the noun. In 2 experiments, the authors blocked items by either semantic category or grammatical gender. Participants performed the task slower when...

The action of reading, understanding and combining words to create meaningful phrases comes naturally to most people. Still, the processes that govern semantic composition in the human brain are not well understood. In this thesis, we explore semantics (word meaning) and semantic composition (combining the meaning of multiple words) using two data sources: a large text corpus, and brain recordi...

The analysis of basic clause structures shows that clauses in Bahasa Siladang consist verbal and non-verbal predication. predicate can be filled by an adjective, noun, numeral or prepositional phrase. the argument structure intransitive requires one NP as only functioning grammatical subject, which agent a patient. Meanwhile, transitive verb two more arguments. presence these arguments sentence...