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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"center-embedded"”.
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Understanding Doubly Center-Embedded Sentences Through Contrastive Focus
… between prosody and comprehensibility in doubly center-embedded relative clause constructions in English. Lexically identical sentences with contrastive emphasis on NP1, NP2, or VP1, and a baseline version for comparison, were read aloud for recording and judged for comprehensibility. Contrast on …
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Differences Between Full and Reduced Relative Clauses
… be limited, since they did not generalize to the center-embedded clauses tested here. The findings also raise the possibility that other effects may have been attributed to clause structure in previous experiments.
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Total Synthesis of Maoecrystal V
… there are three continuous quaternary carbon center embedded within a rigid pentacyclic scaffold. The first chapter of this thesis covers the isolation, bioactivity, and synthetic efforts from other groups. The second chapter discusses our first generation strategy toward Maoecrystal V. During …
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Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing
… of syntactic phrase length on prosody in double center embedded sentences in French. Data collected in a previous study were reanalyzed using native speaker judgment and automatic methods (forced alignment). Results demonstrate similar prosodic splitting behavior as in English in contradiction to …
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The Cognitive Underpinnings of Legal Complexity
… reveals that some of these structures, such as center-embedded syntax, inhibit recall and comprehension of legal content more than others, suggesting that difficulties in understanding legal content result largely from working-memory limitations imposed by long-distance syntactic dependencies as …