This study examined the interpretation of English anaphora by native Spanish speakers and potential transfer pragmatic lexical requirements into English. It further evaluated whether appropriate contextual information might prime preferred such constructions. Pragmatic rules governing co-indexation in constructions differ substantially operate quite differently two languages. require obligatory...

The macro-target of discourse interpretation for computational purposes is the automatic detection of events in a text and their ordering in a temporal scale. Asher and Lascarides’ (2003) ideas on the semantics-pragmatics interface between the lexical and discourse level along with the logic mechanism for inferring rhetorical structure (often nonmonotonically) proposes an interesting way of ach...

Formal semanticists of natural language have traditionally worked with relatively impoverished lexical representations and have generally been conservative in drawing the line between those aspects of interpretation which are determined by lexical information and composition rules, and those which are determined contextually, leaving a substantial amount of work to context. While this strategy ...

This paper is concerned with the standardisation of evaluation metrics for lexical acquisition over precision grammars, which are attuned to actual parser performance. Specifically, we investigate the impact that lexicons at varying levels of lexical item precision and recall have on the performance of pre-existing broad-coverage precision grammars in parsing, i.e., on their coverage and accura...

With a picture-picture experiment, we contrasted competitive and non-competitive models of lexical selection during language production. Participants produced novel noun-noun compounds in response to two adjacently displayed objects that were categorically related or unrelated (e.g., depicted objects: apple and cherry; naming response: "apple-cherry"). We observed semantic interference, with sl...

In recent years, new developments in the area of lexicography have altered not only the management, processing and publishing of lexicographical data, but also created new types of products such as electronic dictionaries and thesauri. These expand the range of possible uses of lexical data and support users with more flexibility, for instance in assisting human translation. In this article, we...

Abstract We introduce the blueprint of Ontogenesis Model L2 Lexical Representation (OM) that focuses on development lexical representations. The OM has three dimensions: linguistic domains (phonological, orthographic, and semantic), mappings between domains, networks model assumes fuzziness is a pervasive property lexicon: most representations are low resolution ontogenetic curve their does not...

This paper reports a case study of acquired surface alexia in Spanish and discusses the most suitable tests to detect this syndrome in a writing system that is very regular for reading at the segmental and supra-segmental levels. Patient MM has surface alexia characterized by quantitatively good performance in reading words and pseudowords; accurate but slow and syllabic reading of words, nonwo...