Children and adults are guided by verb-specific syntactic likelihoods, or verb bias, in language comprehension and production. Recent reports showed that verb bias can be altered by new linguistic experience. We investigated the mechanisms underlying this verb bias learning or adaptation. Specifically, we asked whether verb bias learning, like abstract syntactic priming, is driven by error-base...

It has generally been agreed that a verb feature on v necessitates overt short movement of the verb to the head of vP (see Bailyn 1995 for arguments). However, the verb feature on T has been an issue of longstanding debate in Russian linguistics. In order to derive various temporal references, the verb feature on T must be checked by the verb (Chomsky 2001). So the question arises whether this ...

This paper will be a short examination of the notions of support verbs (e.g. ‘make’) and predicative nouns (e.g. ‘estimation’ ). A support verb and a predicative noun form a support verb construction (e.g. ‘Peter made an estimation of the damage’). The governing element in a support verb construction is the predicative noun whereas in a phrase like ‘Peter wanted an estimation of the damage’ , t...

There are at least two kinds of methods of designing (computational) verb proportional-integral-derivative(PID) controllers. The first one is to generalize fuzzy PID controllers by substituting “BE” in fuzzy control rules with non-static computational verbs. The second one is to directly construct evolving functions of verbs in human experiences of dynamic processes. These methods will lead to ...

This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax–semantics interface, and the unsupervised clustering algorithm k-means uses the empirical verb properties to perform an automatic induction of verb classes. Various evaluation measures are applied to compare the clu...

Makassarese language belongs to the Austronesian family, currently spoken as a mother by group of people in South Sulawesi province, eastern Indonesia. This research focuses on personal pronoun organization sentence construction language. The form, position, and function pronouns sentences are explained. It used ‘simak’ (to-observe) method form conversational involved-observation technique incl...

The world's languages draw on a common set of event components for their verb systems. Yet, these components are differentially distributed across languages. At what age do children begin to use language-specific patterns to narrow possible verb meanings? English-, Japanese-, and Spanish-speaking adults, toddlers, and preschoolers were shown videos of an animated star performing a novel manner ...

This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax–semantics interface, and the unsupervised clustering algorithm k-means uses the empirical verb properties to perform an automatic induction of verb classes. Various evaluation measures are applied to compare the clu...