The roles and effects of changes in syntax on comprehension and processing effort, and the relationships between these two, comprise a large and separate field of inquiry, with the general belief now in place that such changes and variations bring about varied psycholinguistic and discursive implications for comprehension, manifesting themselves differently in different genres.The current study...

An expectation-based system, NGP, f o r parsing Engl ish noun groups i n to the Conceptual Dependency representat ion is descr ibed. The system is a par t of ELI (Engl ish Language I n t e rp re te r ) which is used as the f ron t end to several na tu ra l language understanding systems and is capable of handl ing a wide range of sentences of considerable complex i ty . NGP processes the input ...

Abstract The study focuses on the interaction between length of exposure and instruction in L2 English acquisition process L1 Spanish school children. Two target structures involving noun premodification are targeted: noun–noun (NN) compounds adjective–noun (AN) strings. Four groups participants have been studied for 3 years: a group that has exposed to specifically designed teaching program ta...

Sixteen children (17 age mates, 17 vocabulary mates) with specific language impairment (SLI) participated in two studies. In the first, they named fantasy objects. All groups coined novel noun-noun compounds on a majority of trials but only the SLI group had difficulty ordering the nouns as dictated by semantic context. In the second study, the children described the meaning of conventional nou...

Objectives: Based on recent studies, verb naming is more impaired than noun naming in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD). Noun and verb retrieval problems has been well documented in patients with cortical damage. To explore the possible contribution of cortex and subcortex areas in word finding test performance, we studied verb and object naming in patients with cortical and subcortical lesi...

Complex predicates (CPs) are a highly productive predicational phenomenon in Hindi and Urdu and present a challenge for deep syntactic parsing. For CPs, a combination of a noun and light verb express a single event. The combinatorial preferences of nouns with one (or more) light verb is useful for predicting an instance of a CP. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic method to obtain noun g...