Many phonological phenomena are conditioned by extra-phonological, especially morpho-syntactic information. The goal of this talk is to suggest that whenever there are concurrent representational and procedural solutions for the transmission of morpho-syntactic information , advantage is to be given to the latter. Indeed, we argue that procedural analyses allow for a control outside of the phon...

The paper reports on work in progress to develop a tag set for Hungarian. The rich morphological structure of the language makes tagging feasible only after a full-scale morphological analysis, which results in a magnitude of patterns that do not easily translate into a corpus tag set of manageable size. The paper analyses the extent and types of morpho-syntactic ambiguity found in a 21m word s...

This study explores morpho-syntactic reading comprehension in 19 Spanish children who received a cochlear implant (CI) before 24 months of age (early CI [e-CI]) and 19 Spanish children who received a CI after 24 months (late CI [l-CI]). They all were in primary school and were compared to a hearing control (HC) group of 19 children. Tests of perceptual reasoning, working memory, receptive vocab...

Since most Korean postpositions signal grammatical functions such as syntactic relations, generation of incorrect Korean postpositions results in producing ungrammatical outputs in machine translations targeting Korean. Chinese and Korean belong to morphosyntactically divergent language pairs, and usually Korean postpositions do not have their counterparts in Chinese. In this paper, we propose ...

The proposed morpho-syntactic analyzer parses controlled Japanese texts such as articles in newspapers, technical magazines and professional journals and public documents that are transcribed wherever applicable by using Joyo Kanji (frequently used Chinese characters). The analyzer parses sentences in controlled Japanese texts into morpho-syntactic units, further dividing them into the content ...

In this paper, we investigate the role of morphology in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) from English to the highly inflectional Slovenian language. Translation to an inflectional language is a challenging task because of its morphological complexity. Rich morphology increases data sparsity and worsens the quality of statistical machine translation. The idea of the paper is to...

This paper investigates the morpho-syntactic features of language contact in endangered Greek dialect Romeyka with Turkish. We analyze use borrowed negative existential jok to (a) determine its role Romeyka’s negation patterns (b) examine effects through cross-linguistic comparisons Turkish and forms as spoken Greece (c) apply identified grammatical Myers-Scotton’s linguistic explanations for c...