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...

This paper focuses on verb sense disambiguation cast as inferring the VerbNet class to which a verb belongs. To train three different supervised learning models –Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt), Naive Bayes and Decision Tree– we used lexical, co-occurrence and typed-dependency features. For each model, we built three classifiers: one single classifier for all verbs, one single classifier for polysemou...

The particle verb construction (PVC), also referred to in the literature as phrasal verb or separable complex verb, occurs in most if not all of the Germanic languages. The work presented here deals with a comparison of the transitive PVC in English and German. In English, the construction occurs in two alternating word orders (They called off the concert vs. They called the concert off ). In G...

This project deals with verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in the context of statistical machine translation, with the purpose of finding out if and to what degree they affect translation quality in English and German. Its main goal is to identify which types of VPCs cause translation errors and to find possible solutions to this problem. VPCs are a type of multiword expressions (MWEs), meaning...

the commercial profile of the amoco cd mgcl2 supported polypropylene catalyst is presented. the development, the unique method of preparation/production, with emphasis on particle morphology, and the parameters affecting particle size (ps), particle size distribution (psd), and particle shape are discussed in detail. the outstanding performance of the catalyst, tailoredmade for the amoco-chisso...

In the Gender and Work project (GaW), historians are building a database with information on what men and women did for a living in the Early Modern Swedish society, i.e. approximately 1550–1800 [1]. This information is currently extracted by researchers manually going through large volumes of court records and church documents, searching for relevant text passages describing working activities...

PURPOSE Expressive syntax is a particular area of difficulty for individuals with Down syndrome (DS). In order to better understand the basis for sentence formulation deficits often observed in children and adults with DS, the authors explored the use and comprehension of verbs differing in argument structure. METHOD The authors examined verb and argument structure retrieval in 18 individuals...

In recent years, the internet has become a popular medium for pregnant women seeking pregnancy-related information (Gao et al., 2012; Lagan, Sinclair & Kernohan, 2010; Romano, 2007; Song, West, Lundy & Smith-Dahmen, 2012). This study which utilized a qualitative approach explores Israeli women’s online information seeking during pregnancy. Israel is an especially interesting and important case ...

purpose: neuromyelitis opitca (nmo) is an autoimmune disease that relates to deposition of anti-aquaporin-4 (aqp4) igg in the central nervous system (cns). however, called seronegative nmo when patients are negative for aqp4 antibody. nevertheless, nmo is most probably an antibody mediated disease. the aim of this study was to assess the association between seronegative nmo disease and variatio...