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Frazier, Lyn – 1977
The model of sentence perception proposed by Fodor, Bever and Garrett (1974) emphasizes the importance of grammatical cues signalling clause boundaries, and suggests that segmentation of a sentence into clauses precedes computation of the internal structure of those clauses. However, this model has nothing to say about the many sentences in which…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research
Szolovits, Peter; And Others – 1977
This is a description of the motivation and overall organization of the OWL language for knowledge representation. OWL consists of a linguistic memory system (LMS), a memory of concepts in terms of which all English phrases and all knowledge of an application domain are represented; a theory of English grammar which tells how to map English…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Computer Science
O'Malley, Michael H. – 1973
This paper focuses on linguistic prosodic units related to boundaries between syntactic units. Specifically, rules for predicting the location of such boundaries, and factors affecting their location, are discussed. Examples are given on how prosodies can be used for syntactic analysis. Addressing the question of prosodic units and their…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Intonation, Language Rhythm
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Hunston, Susan – Language Awareness, 1995
Argues for the use of computer-stored corpora in courses in grammar awareness for teachers of mother-tongue English. It is suggested that the ability to do grammar entails a set of skills rather than a body of knowledge and that corpora provide excellent data for doing grammar. Questions regarding the comparison of different methodologies are…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, English
Park, Kyung-Ja; Nakano, Michiko – Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics, 1998
This investigation encompassed a full-scale experiment for both Japanese and Korean university students and looked at the following: the role of grammaticality-judgment tasks (GJT) in second-language acquisition; the learners' behaviors when they were asked to do GJT; and the reasons why the learners made the wrong grammatical judgments.…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Sturt, Patrick; Lombardo, Vincenzo – Cognitive Science, 2005
We recorded participants' eye movements while they read sentences containing verb-phrase coordination. Results showed evidence of immediate processing disruption when a reflexive pronoun embedded in the conjoined verb phrase mismatched the sentence subject. We argue that this result is incompatible with models of human parsing that employ only…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Sentences, Reading, Verbs
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Izumi, Yukiko; Izumi, Shinichi – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This study investigated whether giving learners an opportunity for oral output has any positive effect on the L2 learners' acquisition of a grammatical form. Twenty-four adult ESL learners were randomly assigned to one of three groups: an output group, which engaged in a picture description task that involved input comprehension and output…
Descriptors: Control Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
Goschnick, Hella Eleonore – 1989
this study, an analysis of poetry in Tina Sambal, a Philippine language spoken by about 70,000 persons in northern Zambales province, looks at the characteristics of the different poetic genres and poetic conventions followed in writing songs and poems. Primary emphasis is on phonological restrictions, grammatical liberties, and semantic…
Descriptors: Art Song, Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1968
The goal of these two seventh-grade language units is to provide some basic understanding about the structure and complexity of the English language and about the human ability to handle that language in ordinary speech situations. The first unit inductively presents a set of ordered rules which follow the conventions of modern symbolic logic and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, English Instruction, Grade 7, Grammar
Moravcsik, Edith A. – 1971
The paper constitutes an attempt to provide a nonenumerative characterization of agreeing terms and agreement features. The following pertinent statements turn out to be (near) exceptionless: only coreferential terms agree, and for any given language all agreement features are pronominal ones. Four agreement features, gender, number, definiteness,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns
Pinker, Steven; Birdsong, David – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two studies elicited native speaker and nonnative speaker judgments regarding preferred word order of the idioms known as "freezes." The results support the notion that rules of frozen word order are psychologically real and reflect universal language rules. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, French, Grammar, Idioms
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Pappas, Athina; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
This study investigated the use of generic noun phrases by preschool children and their mothers. Results indicate striking differences in the way generics and non-generics are distributed in the speech of both groups, suggesting generic noun phrases differ in their semantics and conceptual organization from non-generics and may reflect children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Interpersonal Communication, Language Acquisition
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Powers, Susan M. – 1995
An analysis of language acquisition in English and Dutch focuses on a theory of phrase structure. It is argued that the previously posited phrase structure operations of projection and adjunction can be dispensed with in favor of the single operation of "merge." One version of merge is shown to account for a range of data from child English and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Mapping, Dutch, English
Schaefer, Ronald P. – 1986
Semantic noun classes in Emai, an Edoid language of Nigeria, are examined with respect to a process of Reference Point Marking (RPM) in order to explore the relationship between discourse and lexical semantics. Across pre- and post-verbal positions subcategorized by verbs like "rere" ("to be far"), these classes are shown to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Developing Nations, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Wali, Kashi – 1986
It is proposed that LF-movement in in-situ questions is not adequate to express the scope distinctions basic to the semantic interpretations of the direct and indirect question dichotomy in Marathi and Kashmiri, because this question type is more constrained in these languages than in languages like Chinese and Japanese. This theory is illustrated…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Kashmiri, Linguistic Theory
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