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Origins of phrase structure
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Noun Phrase Complementation in Persian
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Primitive computations in phrase construction
The Minimalist Program in current linguistic theory seeks to explain linguistic structure in terms of economy principles, under the assumption that the human language faculty is a perfect system that performs only enough work to satisfy interface requirements. We consider processing costs as a …
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Phrase structure in minimalist syntax
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Geospatial phrase grounding and disambiguation
… in a set of ontologies. GeoCoder parses input phrases and adds location reference individuals to its ontology model. Relationships between location references are recognized based on mid-level structural patterns in the parsed phrase. GeoCoder grounds (or finds possible geometries for) location …
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Investigations of covert phrase movement
… new evidence for the existence of covert phrase movement. These studies contribute to the growing body of evidence that grammatical conditions hold only at interface levels [Chomsky 1993]. Further, I attempt to show that, taken together, the investigations reported here lead to a model of …
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A Nama grammar : the noun-phrase
… has been selected for discussion: the NOUN-PHRASE. This topic has been chosen as nominalization is one of the most important features of Nama grammar. Nominalization is moreover that aspect of Nama syntax which is the most mispresented. This dissertation should not be seen as a theoretical …
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La rétention de la phrase active et la phrase passive chez l'élève francophone de 5e année
… étude de la transformation grammaticale d'une phrase à la forme active en une phrase passive. Il s'agit de voir si le fait de transformer une phrase active en une forme passive influence la rétention.
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Rich Features in Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Název práce: Bohaté rysy ve frázovém strojovém překladu Autor: Kamil Kos Katedra (ústav): Ústav formální a aplikované lingvistiky Vedoucí diplomové práce: RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, Ph.D. e-mail vedoucího: bojar@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Klíčová slova: strojový překlad, hodnocení kvality, kontextový model, …
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The syntax of the Arabic determiner phrase
… the syntactic structure of the Arabic determiner phrase (DP) within the confines of Chomsky's minimalist program. Attention is drawn to a number of the misconceptions many linguists have about this constituent. Some of the issues that linguists overlook include the existence of an indefinite …
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Refinements in hierarchical phrase-based translation systems
The relatively recently proposed hierarchical phrase-based translation model for statistical machine translation (SMT) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in numerous recent translation evaluations. Hierarchical phrase-based systems comprise a pipeline of modules with complex interactions. In …
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The phrase phonology of English and French.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Prosodic phrase boundary perception in adults and infants
… language comprehension. In particular, prosodic phrase boundaries divide the continuous speech stream into chunks reflecting the semantic and syntactic structure of an utterance. This chunking or prosodic phrasing plays a critical role in both spoken language processing and language acquisition. …
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Aspects of Chinese syntax: Ergativity and phrase structure
This thesis is a study of various aspects of Chinese syntax, from a government-and binding perspective, arguing that a range of grammatical problems of Chinese syntax such as the variable position of subject, word order variation, locative inversion, definiteness effects, quantification and scope …
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The Sinitic Nominal Phrase Structure: A Minimalist Perspective
… of the constituents referred to as noun phrases in traditional grammar. In line with Abney’s (1987) Determiner Phrase (DP) Hypothesis, this study investigates the syntactic structures of Sinitic nominal phrases by means of a thorough study of lexical elements, such as numerals, …
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Neural network architectures for Prepositional Phrase attachment disambiguation
… thesis addresses the problem of Prepositional Phrase (PP) attachment disambiguation, a key challenge in syntactic parsing. In natural language sentences, a PP may often be attached to several possible candidates. While humans can usually identify the correct candidate successfully, syntactic …
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The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987.
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Combining phrase-based and tree-to-tree translation
… to select. We combined the outputs from a phrase-based system, Moses [Koehn et al., 2007] and a tree-to-tree system [Cowan et al., 2006]. Our main result is a 0.3 to 0.4 improvement in BLEU score over the best single system used, while also improving fluency and adequacy judgments. In …
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Topicalisation of the noun phrase in colloquial Cairene Arabic
… is here called the "topicalisation" of the Noun Phrase in Colloquial Cairene Arabic (CCA). The Approach is outlined by the Extended Standard Theory TG model, but relevant Functionalist views have been considered to account for Topic-comment alignment in the dialect. Part I, therefore, lays the …
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Cheyenne Verb Agreement in Gpsg (Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar)
… of Amerindian languages, in terms of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). Agreement in this theory works by a mechanism of feature matching among nodes of a tree diagram which represents the structure of units of the language, either words or individual morphemes.
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