In three experiments, we investigated whether the production of subject-verb number agreement is affected by the phonological realization of grammatical information. Speakers repeated and completed German or Dutch noun phrases along the lines of The position against the demonstrations. We varied the number of the subject noun (position) and the local noun (demonstrations), as well as the number...

In this paper we will describe a process for mining syntactical verbal subcategorization, i.e. the information about the kind of phrases or clauses a verb goes with. We will use a large text corpus having almost 10,000,000 tagged words as our resource material. Loglinear modeling is used to analyze and automatically identify the subcategorization dependencies. An unsupervised clustering algorit...

This paper argues that Korean lacks a distinct, open category of Adjective; what have been traditionally analyzed as adjectives are a kind of stative verbs. I propose that apparent noun-modifying adjectives in Korean are predicates inside relative clauses. The proposed analysis makes several predictions about the syntax and semantics of noun modifiers in Korean. In particular, it predicts that ...

This note discusses the current development of an approach to parsing designed to overcome some of the problems of existing parsers, particularly with respect to their utility as probabilistic language models. The parser combines lexical and grammatical constraints into a uniform grammatical representation and is readily trainable (since the parser output is indistinguishable from the grammar i...

What are the limits of unconscious language processing? Can language circuits process simple grammatical constructions unconsciously and integrate the meaning of several unseen words? Using behavioural priming and electroencephalography (EEG), we studied a specific rule-based linguistic operation traditionally thought to require conscious cognitive control: the negation of valence. In a masked ...

Children’s ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (e.g., red butterfly) as contrastive was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent placement (on the adjective red, or on the noun butterfly) was compared within a visual context containing two red referents (a butterfly and a fox) when only one of them had a contrast member (a purple butterfly) o...

Brain-based features of meaning (sensory-motor features: sound, color, manipulation, motion, and shape) are used to compare two popular models of adjective-noun semantic composition: element-wise vector addition and multiplication. A large literature (e.g. Fernandino et al., 2015) suggests that perceptual systems contain information that can be extracted using neural decoding (e.g. Anderson, Mu...