Some restrictions on the order of English premodifying adjectives were already pointed out by Whorf (1956). The first manual corpus studies of the order of premodifying adjectives were carried out by Goyvaerts (1968), Vendler (1968), Quirk and Greenbaum (1973), and Dixon (1982). In all, I have encountered over a hundred of studies concerning the ordering of premodifying adjectives. As a result ...

This paper describes two methods for checking the acceptability of adjective deletion in noun phrases. The first method uses the Google n-gram corpus to check the fluency of the remaining context after an adjective is removed. The second method trains an SVM model using n-gram counts and other measures to classify deletable and undeletable adjectives in context. Both methods are evaluated again...

Attributes such as size, weight or color are at the core of conceptualization, i.e., the formal representation of entities or events in the real world. In natural language, formal attributes find their counterpart in attribute nouns which can be used in order to generalize over individual properties (e.g., big or small in case of size, blue or red in case of color). In order to ascribe such pro...

Abstract The paper presents two experiments of unsupervised classification of Italian noun phrases. The goal of the experiments is to identify the most prominent contextual properties that allow for a functional classification of noun phrases. For this purpose, we used a Self Organizing Map is trained with syntactically-annotated contexts containing noun phrases. The contexts are defined by mea...

By the time children begin to rapidly acquire new word meanings they are already able to determine the grammatical category of novel words based on syntactic and morphological cues. Here we test whether children can leverage this knowledge when inferring the meaning of a novel word. Through a novel word learning experiment we determine that children can use this information, drawing different c...

creates two interpretations. On one reading, the temporal adjective modifies the common noun (N-modifying reading). On the other, it modifies the possession relation (POSS-modifying reading). An explanation for this behavior is offered that appeals to what occurs in possessive sentences like John has a former car (N-modifying reading) and John formerly had a car (POSS-modifying reading). In the...

In this paper, we examine some basic linguistic abilities in a small sample of adults with minimal receptive vocabulary, whose mental verbal age ranges from 1;2 to 3;10. particular, whether the participants our study understand noun phrases consisting modified by an adjective. We use stimuli that they can recognise name. Except for one participant, find that, while all them and adjective isolat...