The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) German environmental language. analysis focusses on lexical, morphological structural knowledge verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within VP, orthograp...

since the verbs of and have similar use and play an important role in arabic grammar, it was useful to study both and discuss about their functions. following the discussion we found that there is five different functions for :first, it is an imperfect verb, (that give the noun an nominative case and the comment an objective case) arabic grammar experts disagree if it has a verb function or a n...

The current study explores infants! use of prosodic cues coincident with phrases in processing fluent speech. After familiarization with two versions of the same word sequence, both 6and 9-month-olds showed a preference for a passage containing the sequence as a noun phrase over a passage with the same sequence as a syntactic non-unit. However, this result was found only in one of the two group...

Finding the correct attachment site for prepositional phrases (PPs) is one of the hardest problems when parsing natural languages. An English sentence consisting of a subject, a verb, and a nominal object followed by a prepositional phrase is a priori ambiguous. The PP in sentence 1 is a noun attribute and needs to be attached to the noun, but the PP in 2 is an adverbial and thus part of the ve...

The current study explores infants’ use of prosodic cues coincident with phrases in processing fluent speech. After familiarization with two versions of the same word sequence, both 6and 9-month-olds showed a preference for a passage containing the sequence as a noun phrase over a passage with the same sequence as a syntactic non-unit. However, this result was found only in one of two groups, t...

This paper proposes a system of mapping classes of syntactic structures as instruments for automatic text understanding. The system illustrated in Japanese consists of a set of verb classes and information on mapping them together with noun phrases, tense and aspect. The system. having information on direction of possible inferences between the verb classes with information on tense and aspect,...