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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"information structure"”.
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A Role and Reference account of information structure in Somali
<p>This thesis is a study of focus structure in Somali within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). Focus is an important phenomenon in Somali, and this thesis investigates the different types of focus which occur in Somali, the effects of the focus markers on other features in the …
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A meta-information structure for representing arguments in science text
… language science text which can be called metainformation. Meta-information is described as being the organisational-, rather than the conceptual properties of an author's 'message' in text. Conceptual information is that subject-related output from a document which readers assimilate or …
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The Role of a Mediating Information Structure in a Contextualized System
Results indicated that a form-based system can be contextualized to serve multiple purposes and has sufficient flexibility to evolve as the needs of the community emerge and change.
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The syntax-pragmatics interface in L2 : aspects of information structure teaching and learning in a Saudi ESL context
… in context, as they often fail to package information appropriately or deviate significantly from native norms. While there are many reasons due to which contextual organisation of information can be problematic for second language (L2) learners, this thesis sheds light on the …
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Information Structure and Constituent Order in EIMI + Participle (Periphrasis) Constructions: A Test Case in the Pseudepigrapha and Apostolic Fathers
… such constructions can be described by the same information structure (IS) principles, regardless of whether they are periphrastic or not, casting doubt on the traditional category of periphrasis. They all behave as though they are a copula with an embedded participial clause and the variations …
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Word order and information structure in Romeyka: A syntax and semantics interface account of order in a minimalist system
… this dissertation, I investigate word order and information structure in the light of recent developments within the minimalist program. I specifically pursue a principled explanation of word order within the biolinguistic perspective. In that sense, I entertain the thesis that all properties of …
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Syntactic focus structure processing : behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from L1 and L2 French
… What do the acquisition and processing of information structure tell us about the acquisition and processing of language in general, and what do the acquisition and processing of information structure tell us about the nature of information structure as a syntactic and pragmatic phenomenon? …
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Information Structures in Nash and Leader-Follower Strategies
The role of information structures in some Nash and Leader-Follower games is examined. By preserving the information structure of the full order singularly perturbed game, while solving the reduced order ones, reduced order near optimal strategies are obtained and well-posedness is shown for two …
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Acoustic cues for the perception of the information status of words in speech
… speakers highlight new or semantically focused information by prosodic enhancement–greater pitch, greater duration, and greater intensity–as compared to words that are already given in, or inferable from the prior discourse context. If speakers signal discourse meaning in their speech, then …
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Focus and discourse stress
… which is typically understood to mark new information or contrasts in sentences. Learners may have difficulties communicating in English if they fail to perceive or express the main point of utterances by means of stress. Previous theoretical linguistic analyses have missed both the …
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Topics in Marma (မာရမာ)
… morphemes and their roles in shaping discourse structures in Marma information structure (topic-focus articulation). Marma has “agglutinative morphology”, meaning words are formed by stringing together morphemes in specific sequences. We observed prefixation, suffixation, and infixation in …
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Robustness of Bayesian Nash Equilibria
… is altered by allowing perturbations in the information structure.
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Paired speech and gesture generation in embodied conversational agents
… of real-estate properties, discourse information structure, intentional and attentional structures, and a mechanism to update the common ground between the user and the agent. Algorithms have been implemented to analyze the discourse information structure, contrast, and surprising …
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The use of focus markers in second language word processing
… has also led to more interest in the L2’s information structure, the way in which information is organised and packaged into informational units, both within and between clauses. On a practical level, the information structure of a language can offer the means to assign focus to a certain …
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Secondary Voltage Control Using Partial Information Structures
… a method of voltage control which uses a partial information structure. In this method, the information available to the controller is the set of voltages at a small set of busses in the system called pilot points. The information from the pilot points is then used in a hierarchical control …
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Word Order in Old Catalan
… the position of the verb, the subject and the information structure of the Old Catalan of this text, it is concluded that Old Catalan was an SVO language that shared several features with its modern counterpart, such as the invariable location of informational focus to the right of the verb. …
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An Investigative Comparison Between Four Approaches to Discourse Analysis Using MT Esther as a Test Case
… as a test case: the tagmemic, distributional, information structure, and interclausal approaches. Whereas traditional exegesis tends to focus on grammar and syntax at the level of the word, clause, or sentence, discourse analysis seeks to account for larger textual relationships, including …
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Visualizing information spaces to enhance social interaction
… where to go, what to see, and who to talk to. In information spaces like the World Wide Web (WWW), however, people cannot easily gain a sense of being with others, determine patterns of activities, nor find appropriate others to interact with. Our solution, LiveWeb, visualizes the underlying …
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Dynamic multi-person optimization with weakly coupled agents
… have studied LQG teams featuring a nonclassical information pattern, nonlinear deterministic differential games, LQG nonzero-sum games and Markov decision problems. In the case of LQG teams, we showed the existence of finite-dimensional linear controllers (FDLCs) which approximate the optimal …
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Revisiting prosodic reconstruction
… prosodic parallels with corresponding simpler structures without movement. I propose to model this recurrent observation by ordering syntax-prosody mapping before copy deletion. In order to account for the partial fronting data, the idea is extended to the mapping between prosody and …
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