In appearance, Husserl’s writings seem not to have had any influence on linguistic research, nor does what the German philosopher wrote about language seem to be worth a place in the history of linguistics. The purpose of the paper is exactly to contrast this view, by reassessing both the position and the role of Husserl’s early masterpiece — the Logical Investigations — within the history of l...

This book describes the theoretical underpinnings and results of Rosetta, a machine translation (MT) project that started at Philips Research Laboratory in the early 1980's; the book focuses on research carried out between 1985 and 1992. While the project was a collective enterprise among a large number of people (as the pen name indicates), the principal authors were Lisette Appelo, Theo Janss...

Abstract: Native speakers of Spanish (children aged 6–7, 10–11 and adults) rated grammatical and ungrammatical groundand figure-locative sentences with high frequency, low frequency and novel verbs (e. g., Lisa llenó/forró/nupó la caja con papel; *Lisa llenó/forró/nupó papel en la caja, ‘Lisa filled/ lined/nupped the box with paper’; ‘Lisa filled/lined/nupped paper into the box’) using a 5-poin...

Abstract: Previous phonetic studies of metrical prominence have primarily focused on its acoustic manifestations, including pitch, intensity, duration, spectral tilt, etc. In this paper we outline our new research program in which we explore jaw displacement patterns as another articulatory reflex of metrical prominence. We present our studies of English and Japanese in some detail, which show ...