An analysis of the temporal (prospective) form (silent and filled hesitations, repetitions, incomplete phrases, context-related comments, interjections), syntactic form, and lexical (retrospective) form (verbal deviations, open and closed class phrases) of spontaneous language production of early and middle stage Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's patients was made. Results showed that ...

This paper seeks to establish that measure phrases in the extended AP and PP—such as six feet tall and twenty minutes before midnight—have a direct counterpart in the verbal domain. These verbal measure phrases, exemplified in English in e.g. He slept several hours, constitute a natural class distinct from other DP adverbials and characterized by obligatorily narrow scope, low structural positi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine if randomized variable practice, a central component of concurrent treatment, would be effective and efficient in treating childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Concurrent treatment is a treatment program that takes the speech task hierarchy and randomizes it so that all tasks are worked on in one session. Previous studies have shown the treatment...

Deverbal nouns exhibit both nominal and verbal syntactic behaviour: they operate as concrete nouns, but also participate in verbal constructions where they require arguments and accept aspectual modification. We first describe the phenomenon and discuss theoretical analyses proposed in the literature, and then propose a methodology for applying the theoretical results to parsing of nominal phra...

Webjspell is an Internet multipurpose tool for Portuguese morphological analysis and spell checking. It provides examples of phrases, frequencies, verbal conjugation tables, word suggestions, and Internet pages spell checking. This article describes Webjspell features, and results.

The present paper extends understanding of differences in expressing actions by verbal nouns in corpora of written vs. spoken Czech, namely in the Czech part of the Prague CzechEnglish Dependency Treebank and in the Prague Dependency Treebank of Spoken Czech. We show that while the written corpus includes more complex noun phrases with more explicit expression of adnominal participants, noun ph...