Word order in Hungarian exclamatives

Word Order Acquisition in Persian Speaking Children

Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children. Methods: In the present study, participants were 60 Persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills, and aged between 30-47 months. The 30-minute language samples were audio...

Hungarian Word-Sense Disambiguated Corpus

To create the first Hungarian WSD corpus, 39 suitable word form samples were selected for the purpose of word sense disambiguation. Among others, selection criteria required the given word form to be frequent in Hungarian language usage (frequency rates available in the Hungarian National Corpus (HNC) were used for measurement (Váradi, 2000)), and to have more than one sense considered frequent...

Word final consonant extrametricality in Hungarian

A Degree Account of Exclamatives

This distinction is based on the empirical observation that the latter are subject to two semantic restrictions not applicable to the former. The proposal is this: for the utterance of an exclamation to be expressively correct, its content must be salient, and the speaker must find this content surprising. For the utterance of an exclamative to be expressively correct, its content must addition...

Word order in resultatives