Analogical effects in reading Dutch verb forms

Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms

This paper proposes a method to correct English verb form errors made by non-native speakers. A basic approach is template matching on parse trees. The proposed method improves on this approach in two ways. To improve recall, irregularities in parse trees caused by verb form errors are taken into account; to improve precision, n-gram counts are utilized to filter proposed corrections. Evaluatio...

Research on Analogical Processes and Reading

Developmental reading courses are typically designed to increase the reading proficiency of college students who are underprepared for collegelevel reading. Existing at U.S. higher education institutions since the beginning of the 20th century (Kingston, 2003), developmental reading has his­ torically been a core part of developmental educa­ tion offerings in twoand four-year colleges (Stahl &K...

Analogical Generalization and Retrieval for Denominal Verb Interpretation

The creativity of natural language poses a significant theoretical problem. One example of this is denominal verbs (those derived from nouns) such as spoon in “She spooned me some sugar”. Traditional generative approaches typically posit a unique entry in the lexicon for this usage, though this approach has difficulty scaling. Construction Grammar has evolved as a competing theory which instead...

Order Variability in German and Dutch Verb Clusters

Neural correlates of Dutch Verb Second in speech production.

Dutch speakers with agrammatic Broca's aphasia are known to have problems with the production of finite verbs in main clauses. This performance pattern has been accounted for in terms of the specific syntactic complexity of the Dutch main clause structure, which requires an extra syntactic operation (Verb Second), relative to the basic Subject-Object-Verb order surfacing in Dutch subordinate cl...