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Recognition using visual phrases
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Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases
… introduce novel data showing that the measure phrases that appear in overt pseudopartitive constructions have more complex internal structure than previously assumed. Specifically, they may contain adjectives, including superlative inflection in which case a definite article may introduce the …
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Missing noun phrases in Navajo.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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A case study in the syntax of agreement : Hebrew noun phrases and Benoni verb phrases
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1989.
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Descriptive Phrases: Understanding Natural Language Metadata
… (sets of) objects. We call them ``descriptive phrases''. This thesis deals with a problem of understanding natural language metadata for its further use in semantics aware applications. This thesis contributes by portraying descriptive phrases, using the results of analysis of several collected …
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Mayday Trigger Phrases in the Fire Service
… participants were presented with trigger phrases in a random order to evaluate their decision-making. Participants were asked if they would proceed, withdraw, or call a mayday when faced with an additional condition. The study focused on male career firefighters from British Columbia and …
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Interpreting Complex Noun Phrases in Mandarin Chinese
It has been observed that word order and intonational prominence in MC NPs tend to correlate with definite and indefinite readings of the NPs. Based on recurring interpretive patterns in MC, I show that in MC, definite readings are expressed by lexical and constructional meaning, the interpretation …
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Cyclicity and the scope of wh-phrases
This thesis argues that in a constituent question with a universal quantifier, syntactic reconstruction of the wh-phrase below the quantifier is the source of scope ambiguities. In particular, I argue, based on the interaction of PL-readings with binding conditions A and B, that syntactic …
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On the temporal interpretation of noun phrases
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Generating Paraphrases with Greater Variation Using Syntactic Phrases
… approach to generate almost 90% acceptable paraphrases. However, most of the sentences had little variation from the original input sentence. Leveraging syntactic information, this thesis project presents an approach that successfully generated more varied paraphrase sentences than the approach …
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Distributed exponence: The Construction of Remote Tense Phrases
… affixes and agreement morphology in its verb phrases, and also syntactic movement. In the non-future tenses tense and agreement are suffixed to the verb. But in future graded tenses the tense-agreement complex is prefixed to the verb. I conclude that excorporation is a potential explanation. …
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Grounding natural language phrases in images and video
Grounding language in images has shown it can help improve performance on many image-language tasks. To spur research on this topic, this dissertation introduces a new dataset which provides the ground truth annotations of the location of noun phrase chunks in image captions. I begin by introducing …
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Split noun phrases and the theory of case
… with two puzzles in the syntax of French noun phrases. I first examine the distribution of the sub nominal clitic pronoun en. I argue that Case theory is the module of the grammar responsible for the well-known contrast in grammaticality between genitive en and quantitative en when they appear …
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Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
This dissertation asserts that passionate love is not a feeling, but a process of acculturation to a complete system of information. Niklas Luhmanns work on love as a system of communication is put in dialogue with the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj iek to demonstrate that …
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Discourse-givenness of noun phrases : theoretical and computational models
… models of discourse-givenness of noun phrases for English and German. Definitions are based on Bach's (1987) work on reference, Kibble and van Deemter's (2000) work on coreference, and Kamp and Reyle's Discourse Representation Theory (1993). For the experiments, the following corpora …
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Controlling Emotional Text to Speech Using Complex Adverbial Phrases
<p>This study investigates the usage of adverbial modifiers from audiobook data as a resource for training speech synthesizers with a greater range of speech descriptions. The Tacotron2 text-to-speech (TTS) model was used for the purposes of this study. Utilizing the LibriTTS dataset, the Tacotron2 …
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Phonological phrases--their relation to syntax, focus, and prominance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… language (L2) acquisition of Mandarin nominal phrases by Japanese and English learners. Four nominal prope1iies shared by Mandarin and Japanese are the classifier projection (ClP), the incompatibility of . \ . the numeral-classifier phrase with the plural marker, adjectival possessives and the …
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Learning, using examples, to translate phrases and sentences to meanings
Before we can create intelligent systems that exhibit the versatility of the human intellect, we must understand how our command of language enables the uniquely broad scope of our reasoning ability. To pursue such an understanding, we must discover the ways by which language gives rise to …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was …
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