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Comparative economy conditions in natural language syntax
Comparative economy natural language syntax
2015/6/15
The most conceptually drastic change in natural language syntactic theory in recent years is the introduction of economy conditions (ECs). Although there is not a unified formal notion of economy, the...
No Vacuous Quantification Constraints in Syntax
No Vacuous Quantification Constraints Syntax
2015/6/15
Much recent work appeals to a ban on vacuous quantification (NO VACUOUS QUANTIFICATION, henceforth NVQ) that operates not merely as a criterion of non-redundancy in an informal semantic sense but is a...
This paper is a detailed investigation of the syntax and semantics of a single type of cross-linguistically common parenthetical expression, here dubbed Asparentheticals (e.g., Ames, as you know, was ...
Probabilistic Syntax
Probabilistic Syntax
2015/6/12
“Everyone knows that language is variable.” This is the bald sentence with which Sapir (1921:147) begins his chapter on language as an historical product. He goes on to emphasize how two speakers’ usa...
Use of Syntax in Perceptual Compensation for Phonological Reduction
phonological reduction syntactic context phonetic ambiguity decision bias
2015/5/6
Listeners resolve ambiguity in speech by consulting context. Extensive research on this issue has largely relied on continua of sounds constructed to vary incrementally between two phonemic endpoints....
The neurobiology of syntax: beyond string sets
implicit artificial grammar learning fMRI repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation language-related genes CNTNAP2 spiking neural networks
2015/4/21
The human capacity to acquire language is an outstanding scientific challenge to understand. Somehow our language capacities arise from the way the human brain processes, develops and learns in intera...
The Interplay between Prosody and Syntax in Sentence Processing: The Case of Subject- and Object-control Verbs
Prosody Syntax Sentence Processing Subject Object-control Verbs
2015/4/9
This study addresses the question whether prosodic information can affect the choice for a syntactic analysis in auditory sentence processing. We manipulated the prosody (in the form of a prosodic bre...
Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change:Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat
Discourse Syntax Linguistic Change Postverbal Topical Subjects Serbo-Croat
2015/4/9
The extensive discussion of the principles of word order change in the last decades has resulted in a number of proposals on how to deal with the mechanisms and the motivation for this kind of diachro...
About edible restaurants: conflicts between syntax and semantics as revealed by ERPs
language sentence processing conflict semantics syntax ERPs
2015/4/8
In order to investigate conflicts between semantics and syntax, we recorded ERPs, while participants read Dutch sentences. Sentences containing conflicts between syntax and semantics (Fred eats in a s...
Speech is structured into parts by syntactic and prosodic breaks. In locally syntactic ambiguous sentences, the detection of a syntactic break necessarily follows detection of a corresponding prosodic...
This paper is a set of comments on historical syntax papers from a workshop in Manchester in 1997.
SOME SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE SYNTAX OF NOUN PHRASES
SOME SPECULATIONS SYNTAX OF NOUN PHRASES
2015/1/19
In this paper, I will discuss the syntax of noun phrases in natural languages, particularly the word order of noun phrases. Under the Linear Correspondence Axiom (Kayne 1994, Chomsky 1995), I propose ...
PROPERTIES OF NGAANG AND THE SYNTAX OF VERBAL PARTICLES IN CANTONESE
PROPERTIES OF NGAANG THE SYNTAX OF VERBAL PARTICLES CANTONESE
2015/1/19
This article explores various grammatical properties of the postverbal particle ngaang ‘must’ in Cantonese. It is shown that the existence of ngaang ‘must’ is subject to the telicity requirement, the ...
A Theory of Licensing in English Syntax and its Applications
incomplete structure licensing tense focus economy
2015/1/19
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 5-1, 1-25. Assuming that grammar is parsimonious, ‘incomplete’ structures should be preferred. Incomplete structures include those with null projecti...
In his seminal study of lexical decomposition of English verbs, McCawley (1968) proposes that predicates in causative sentences are semantically complex, which can be decomposed into some semantic pri...