Topic, logical subject and sentence structure in Hungarian

Deaccentuation in Hungarian and its logical background

New information in a sentence is expressed by prosodic prominence in many languages. However, the reverse is less obvious: given information and the lack of emphasis do not necessarily go hand in hand. This is especially true of languages that are not flexible with respect to their sentence-internal accentuation patterns, i.e in which a nucleus shift is not (always) possible. Based on predictio...

The Development of Sentence Interpretation in Hungarian

Opinion Sentence and Topic Relevant Sentence Extraction by Using Coherent Structure among the Sentences

We developed a new sentence extraction framework, the Sliding Window Framework, by using coherent structure among the sentences. Coherent structure means that the sentences that relate to a certain topic in an article are written in clusters to preserve the logical organization. To use the structure, our method makes blocks that consist of sentences in a window of a certain size, then estimates...

Location Of The Topic Sentence, Level Of Language Proficiency, and Reading Comprehension

Logical form of Hintikka’s sentence

In the article some arguments for Hintikka claim from [5], that sentences like: “Some relative of each villager and some relative of each townsman hate each other” have branching logical form non expressible in elementary logic, are considered and then refuted. Attention is focused mainly on referential and inferential arguments proposed in [9].