Informationally Given phrases following an instance of focus are generally realized in a compressed pitch range and are assumed to lack prosodic prominences above the word level. In this paper, we address the question of the metrical representation of postfocal constituents in Tuscan Italian. The results of a production experiment show that, despite their being realized with a low and flat F0 c...

This thesis surveys the interaction between non-verbal predication in matrix clauses and processes of head-movement. Focusing mainly on the syntax of Modern Irish nominal predicates, it is claimed that matrix non-verbal predication can occur without any verbal support. When this happens, non-verbal predicates bear inflectional features directly and behave just like verbs with respect to process...

In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of phrasal verbs, discussing their characteristics and the challenges that they present for possible treatments. We also discuss the treatment for phrasal verbs in a particular grammar, the LinGO-ERG, and the coverage it provides. Possible ways of extending the coverage of this grammar are analysed and proposed, taking into account the regular pattern...

Recent research using the phenomenon of illusory vowels has raised our awareness of the extent to which speech perception is modulated by the listener’s native-language phonological knowledge. However, most of the focus has been limited to word-level phonological knowledge. In this article, we suggest that the perceptual system recruits segmental phonological knowledge that makes crucial refere...

Approaches to natural language processing that use a phrasal lexicon have the advantage of easily handling linguistic constructions that might otherwise be extragrammatical. However, current phrasal lexicons are often too rigid: their phrasal entries fail to cover the more flexible constructions. FLUSH, for Flexible Lexicon Utilizing Specialized and Hierarchical knowledge, is a knowledge-based ...

Phrasal Verbs are an important feature of the English language. Properly identifying them provides the basis for an English parser to decode the related structures. Phrasal verbs have been a challenge to Natural Language Processing (NLP) because they sit at the borderline between lexicon and syntax. Traditional NLP frameworks that separate the lexicon module from the parser make it difficult to...

Both general and domain-specific search engines have adopted query suggestion techniques to help users formulate effective queries. In the specific domain of literature search (e.g., finding academic papers), the initial queries are usually based on a draft paper or abstract, rather than short lists of keywords. In this paper, we investigate phrasal-concept query suggestions for literature sear...

We present new direct data analysis showing that dynamically-built context-dependent phrasal translation lexicons are more useful resources for phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) than conventional static phrasal translation lexicons, which ignore all contextual information. After several years of surprising negative results, recent work suggests that context-dependent phrasal tr...

Thesaurus, which links between linguistic expressions (or concepts) based on various semantic relations, is one of the most fundamental semantic resources in a broad range of NLP tasks. A lot of work has been carried out relying on thesauri, such asWordNet (Miller, 1995) and automatically created versions of it. The entries of most existing thesauri are either single words or word sequences inc...

Individuals with agrammatic aphasia and children with syntactic SLI (Specific Language Impairment) have difficulties understanding object relative clauses, difficulties that have been ascribed to a deficit in phrasal movement. The aim of the current study was to explore the nature of this deficit in movement in the two populations, and to examine whether the underlying deficit in the two popula...