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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"syntactic structure"”.
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The use of syntactic structure in relationship extraction
… of relationship extraction that uses surface and syntactic features of text along with entity detection information to perform sentence-level relationship extraction tasks. The tasks are to build and test classifiers for the following relationships: employer-employee, organization-location, …
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Neural representation of speech segmentation and syntactic structure discrimination
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Mutation and the syntactic structure of modern colloquial Welsh
… mutation in modern Welsh, and explore the syntactic structure of this language: I will concentrate on the syntax of Colloquial rather than Literary Welsh. It transpires that mutation phenomena can frequently be cited as evidence for or against certain syntactic analyses. In chapter 1 I …
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Given-New and Salience: The Effects of Two Sentence Production Principles on Syntactic Structure
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Code-mixing across languages: Structure, functions, and constraints
… (CM) from three perspectives: psycholinguistic, syntactic, and functional. This study is concerned mainly with the functional use and syntactic structure of CM across cultures and languages.
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Some Problematic Issues in the Study of Intonation and Sentence Stress
… can have any effect on the form taken by the syntactic structure of the utterance to which it is assigned.
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Prosody in Kichwa
… focusing on the interaction between pitch, morphosyntactic structure, and word order in both elicited and spontaneous speech. Based on data from ten native speakers of the Salasaka community, the study analyzes approximately 150 utterances using Praat and ToBI-style prosodic annotation. The …
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Phonology of consonant-vowel interaction with special reference to Korean and Dependency Phonology
… every module of grammar, i.e. from the internal structure of a segment to syntactic structure.
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Unsupervised grammar induction with Combinatory Categorial Grammars
Language is a highly structured medium for communication. An idea starts in the speaker's mind (semantics) and is transformed into a well formed, intelligible, sentence via the specific syntactic rules of a language. We aim to discover the fingerprints of this process in the choice and location of …
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Induction, Training, and Parsing Strategies beyond Context-free Grammars
… the problem of assigning a sentence its syntactic structure, which may be discontinuous. It proposes a class of models based on probabilistic grammars that are obtained by the automatic refinement of a given grammar. Different strategies for parsing with a refined grammar are developed. …
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Event structure and the encoding of arguments : the syntax of the Mandarin and English verb phrase
… to our understanding of how events are syntactically represented, but also explicates interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, clarifying the relationship between surface form, syntactic structure, and logical form. A theory of argument structure grounded in …
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The syntax of the Arabic determiner phrase
<p>The goal of this thesis is to analyze 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 …
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The identification and function of English prosodic features
… by investigating the relationship between syntactic structure and intonational phrasing. The first study tests and refines a model designed to predict the intonational phrasing of a sentence given the syntactic structure. In further analysis, we demonstrate that specific acoustic cues-word …
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Distinctive Strategies of Older Deaf Students in Comprehending Relativized Sentences in Isolation and in Paragraphs (Syntactic Structures, 10-18 Years, Dominant, Error, Frequency of Use)
Three types of distinctive syntactic structures found in 135 older (10-18 years) deaf students' written relativized sentences were studied to determine their frequency of use. Both the frequency with which deaf students use these strategies and the frequencies of use of each type of strategy were …
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
… to processing difficulty as compared to syntactic prediction. Within the last decades, evidence for a content-addressable memory system underlying human cognition in general has accumulated (e.g., Anderson et al., 2004). In sentence processing research, it has been proposed that this …
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How Plurality Is Encoded in Classifier Languages: A Case Study of Mandarin Chinese
This dissertation sets out to explore the formal structure of noun phrases in Mandarin Chinese and how the proposed structure can be employed to encode plurality in Mandarin Chinese through morpho-syntactic means. The dissertation consists of six chapters. In Chapter 1, I introduce the concept of …
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A General Purpose Semantic Parser Using FrameNet and WordNet®.
Syntactic parsing is one of the best understood language processing applications. Since language and grammar have been formally defined, it is easy for computers to parse the syntactic structure of natural language text. Does meaning have structure as well? If it has, how can we analyze the …
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Classification of semantic relations in different syntactic structures in medical text using the MeSH hierarchy
… recognizing semantic relationships of different syntactic compounds. The compounds, which include noun- noun, adjective-noun, noun-adjective, noun-verb, and verb-noun, were extracted from a set of doctors' notes using a part of speech tagger and a parser. Each compound was labeled with a semantic …
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The ezafat suffix: The syntax-semantics interface
… great importance to understanding the underlying structure of a Dari noun phrase. Much of this thesis uses the methodologies and tools provided by generative syntax to determine the status of Ezafat and to answer a number of questions posed by Ezafat. I hypothesize that Ezafat belongs to a …
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Varieties of clausal complementation
… this dichotomy corresponds to a difference in syntactic structure. I propose that these different structures derive from an operation of promotion to subject position that is constrained by two factors. First, it is constrained by syntactic category: DPs, but crucially not CPs, are eligible for …
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