Two experiments investigated whether lexical retrieval for speaking can be characterized as a competitive process by assessing the effects of semantic context on picture and word naming in German. In Experiment 1 we demonstrated that pictures are named slower in the context of same-category items than in the context of items from various semantic categories, replicating ®ndings by Kroll and Ste...

It is commonly said that adjectives are a kind of word that people use for emitting their opinion. This is because this lexical category designates the qualities of an entity. However, there are different ways to express an explicit opinion besides the use of adjectives. People also can choose verbs, nouns, adverbs and even groups of words that have complex meaning, like idioms or other multi-w...

Much attention has been paid to English verbal gerunds in generative grammar, but most of the studies dealt with the abstract 'functional' category empty categories, derivational deep structure analyses, and things like that, which all ignored the Lexical Integrity Prniciple in the sense of Pollard and Sag (1994), Sag and Wasow (1999), Bresnan and Mchombo (1995), and Sells (1995). Only recently...

Building on the use of local contexts, or frames, for human category acquisition, we explore the treatment of contexts as categories. This allows us to examine and evaluate the categorical properties that local unsupervised methods can distinguish and their relationship to corpus POS tags. From there, we use lexical information to combine contexts in a way which preserves the intended category,...

This paper considers the link between lexical category and lexical semantics, examining variation in the category of property concept (PC) words (Dixon, 1982; Thompson, 1989)—words introducing the descriptive content in translational equivalents of sentences whose main predicate is an adjective in languages with large open classes of them. Francez and Koontz-Garboden (2015) conjecture that nomi...

dependency trees 2 dependency trees that describe at least one possible sentence. An abstract dependency tree can consist of four node types: • Category (interior) nodes. • Lexical (leaf) nodes.

In this paper we outline a lexical organization for Turkish that makes use of lexical rules for innections, derivations, and lexical category changes to control the proliferation of lexical entries. Lexical rules handle changes in grammatical roles, enforce type constraints, and control the mapping of subcategorization frames in valency-changing operations. A lexical inheritance hierarchy facil...

In this paper we outline a lexical organization for Turkish that makes use of lexical rules for innections, semantically predictable derivations, and lexical category changes to control the proliferation of lexical entries. Lexical rules handle changes in grammatical roles, enforce type constraints, and control the mapping of subcategorization frames in valency-changing operations. A lexical in...

A primary goal for models of speech perception is to describe how listeners achieve reliable comprehension given a lack of invariance between the acoustic signal and individual speech sounds. For example, individual talkers differ in how they implement phonetic properties of speech. Research suggests that listeners attain perceptual constancy by processing acoustic variation categorically while...

Requiring only category names as user input is a highly attractive, yet hardly explored, setting for text categorization. Earlier bootstrapping results relied on similarity in LSA space, which captures rather coarse contextual similarity. We suggest improving this scheme by identifying concrete references to the category name’s meaning, obtaining a special variant of lexical expansion.