This thesis proposes a new system of category pr0jection where Lexical categories and Nonlexical (or "Functional") categories project in different ways, which is crucially differerlt from the standard views in Wklich all categories project in the same fashion. In Chapte r 1, I in t roduce some of ttle ba sic not ions of Government-Binding Theory withiIl which all of the discussion in this thesi...

Listeners use lexical information and the speech signal to categorize sounds recognize words despite substantial acoustic-phonetic variation in natural speech. In diachronic mergers, where systematic acts neutralize contrasts, role of lexicon becomes less clear. We examined how competition structures phonetic variability (merging) tone categories Cantonese using three experiments. categorized t...

This study was intended first to categorize the L2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. Moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

This paper describes a method for automatically extending the lexicon of wide-coverage parsers. The method is an extension to the automatic detection of coverage problems of natural language parsers, based on large amounts of raw text (van Noord 2004). The goal is to extend grammar coverage, focusing in particular on the acquisition of lexical information for missing and incomplete lexicon entr...

It seems likely that all languages make a distinction between words belonging to functional categories and those belonging to lexical categories, a distinction which roughly coincides with the sets of open and closed class items. Nouns, verbs and adjectives constitute the class of lexical categories in English, conjunctions and other sorts of particles fall into the class of functional categori...

The evolution of competing lexical categories is simulated within a model in which lexical outputs are organized as sequences of articulatory gestures. When exemplar-based categories compete for assignment and storage of incoming exemplars in a production/storage loop, contrast between categories spontaneously emerges and remains stable, driven by the differences in storage consistency between ...

1. Introduction Grammatical categories (e.g., noun, verb, and etc) are the building blocks of grammar, as grammars organize abstract linguistic categories rather than individual lexical items. Learning the categories of words is, thus, fundamental to the acquisition of language. Even theories in which learners are endowed with considerable innate linguistic knowledge allow that children need in...

this study compares and contrasts lexical cohesion in english and persian abstracts of iranian medical students’ theses to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages. for this purpose, one hundred english and persian abstracts were selected randomly and analyzed based on seddigh and yarmohamadi’s (1996) lexical cohesion framework, a version of halliday and hasan’s (1976) and halli...