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Sentence Types and Complement Types in English
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Constraints on the distribution of subject contact causes
… is closely associated with a limited number of sentence types: in particular, there and have existentials, it-cleft clauses and equative copular constructions. Consequently, in previous work the emphasis has been on identifring a class of sentences that permit the Subject Contact Clause and …
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Retrieval mechanisms in sentence comprehension
… mechanisms to understand syntactically complex sentences with multiple embeddings. Systematically designed sentence stimuli tested whether the relevant memory mechanism differs when reanalysis is required. Results indicated that sentence length and syntactic ambiguity affected overall accuracy …
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ENGLISH READING ABILITY IN YOUNG DEAF SIGNERS AN INVESTIGATION OF SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
… unskilled signers were assessed on four English sentence structures (actives, passives, pronouns, reflexive pronouns) using a four-alternative forced choice sentence-to-picture-matching task, providing a window into how ASL skill is related to English sentence comprehension. Of interest was the …
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An investigation of the reliability of L2 learners' grammaticality judgments
… grammaticality judgment task and a written sentence combining task. Three proficiency groups, low, intermediate and high, took part in the experiment and were compared with a control group. Significant correlations were found across proficiency groups and on various sentence types. High …
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Pruning the right branch : working memory and understanding sentences
… was conducted to examine the relation between sentence memory and working memory, and to determine whether memory for sentences is a function of the number of clauses in the sentence, or the number of new discourse referents. Subjects heard sentences of different lengths (2 - 5 clauses) and …
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An Intelligent Agent Based Spoken Dialog System for Content Based Image Retrieval
… model. The semantic analysis algorithm processes sentences according to their sentence types to achieve uniform processing. We tested this idea by building a spoken dialog interface for a content-based image retrieval system. An evaluation of the system was conducted, and a relatively robust …
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The Copula in Arabic: Description and Analysis
… Arabic, stating strategies used to form copular sentences, indicating possible complements of the copula and clarifying contexts in which the copula is absent. Second, the thesis classifies copular sentences in MSA into four types: equational sentences, predicational sentences, specificational …
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A study of agrammatism with special reference to Hebrew
… in which it is possible to construct passive sentences without trace. In addition to passive and obJect relative clause sentences, other sentence types were also used. The results did not support the trace deletion hypothesis of Grodzinsky. An alternative version of his hypothesis, according …
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Development of a Hindi Version of Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V)
… stimuli matched the original CAPE-V in terms of sentence types and sounds tested. Data were collected in two groups- the first in English and Hindi in bilingual speakers (16 males and 15 females) with normal voice quality. The CAPE-V ratings in both languages were compared to assess the validity …
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Transformer-Maze
… the different mental representations of various sentence types and the computational resources required to build those representations. Psycholinguists have a number of tools available to them, the most prevalent being eye-tracking and self-paced reading (SPR). However, a lesser-known tool called …
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Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension
… using tachistoscopic presentation, 75 sentences representing 15 different sentence types were read by subjects. Each type varied in structure and in the clarity of markers, used to indicate interruptions or deviations from SVO structure. Comprehension time was measured. The results …
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Bolstering Opportunity and Prejudicial Expectation Effects on Recall When Appraising Performance Potential
… your expectancy or well-known prejudicial stereotypes). Typically, the likelihood of pursuing one strategy or the other is manipulated in experimental settings by first providing an artificial expectation, then altering the structure of the person-memory task or adjusting the rate of information …
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From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
… is new to the addressee. The thetic subtypes selected for this study are the following: existentials (e.g. There are apples in the kitchen); presentatives (e.g. Heres your book); weather statements (e.g. It rains); physical sensation statements (e.g. My HEAD hurts) and hot news (e.g. …
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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech
… appear. Chapter Five deals with grammatical sentence types and their possible use in communicating cognitive states. It also examines modal auxiliary verbs and their possible relationship to the modal and deontic operators used in the cognitive state model. In Chapter Six, theories of …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… 3. Chapters 4 and 5 survey word classes and sentence types respectively. The following four chapters are concerned with nominals. Nominal inflection is described in chapter 6 and the different types of free pronouns are discussed in chapter 7. In chapter 8 there is a description of nominal …
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TEMPORAL PROPERTIES IN JAPANESE (TENSE, CONDITIONALS).
… theory. The analysis focuses on the following sentence types: simple sentences, complex sentences (without conditional sentences), conditional complex sentences and sentences with an embedded clause. We will show here a few examples of problems as to temporal interpretations. In simple …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… 3. Chapters 4 and 5 survey word classes and sentence types respectively. The following four chapters are concerned with nominals. Nominal inflection is described in chapter 6 and the different types of free pronouns are discussed in chapter 7. In chapter 8 there is a description of nominal …
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Why young children fail to understand ‘before’ and ‘after’
… - that signal the order of events in two-clause sentences, and to establish the reasons for difficulties with these linguistic devices. Chapter 1 reviews the literature that is considered relevant to the experimental work. In the experimental work (Chapters 2 to 4), children’s comprehension and …
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The Evolution of American Expository Prose Style as Exemplified by the Easy Chair Columnists of HARPER'S MAGAZINE
… content, role of author in society, diction, sentence styles, construction schemes, tropes, finite verbs, and general quality of writing. Methods for examining these features combined strict quantitative techniques with subjective observations which might generally result from careful, …
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