Although the semantic analysis and the grammatical distribution are treated as separate issues in linguistic theories, there is a close interconnection between the two in that the differences in the lexical meanings are often realized at the levels both of the grammatical function and of the lexical collocation. This is the basic assumption utilized when we design and develop Knowledge Base of ...

The extensive research done on the interrelationship between different social factors such as social class, gender and age and different linguistic variables has shown that these factors have important effects on the way language is used. Among these factors a special importance can be placed on age due to the role it plays in revealing different patterns of language use, such as the age-gradin...

Multistate capturerecapture models are a natural generalization of the usual one-site recapture models. Similarly, individuals are sampled on discrete occasions, at which they may be captured or not. However, contrary to the one-site case, the individuals can move within a ® nite set of states between occasions. The growing interest in spatial aspects of population dynamics presently contribute...

Based on a study of verb translations in the Europarl corpus, we argue that a wide range of MWE patterns can be identified in translations that exhibit a correspondence between a single lexical item in the source language and a group of lexical items in the target language. We show that these correspondences can be reliably detected on dependency-parsed, word-aligned sentences. We propose an ex...

Context-free grammars cannot be identified in the limit from positive examples (Gold, 1967), yet natural language grammars are more powerful than context-free grammars and humans learn them with remarkable ease from positive examples (Marcus, 1993). Identifiability results for formal languages ignore a potentially powerful source of information available to learners of natural languages, namely...

This article examines nonmathematical linguistic complexity as a source of differential item functioning (DIF) in math word problems for English language learners (ELLs). Specifically, this study investigates the relationship between item measures of linguistic complexity, nonlinguistic forms of representation and DIF measures based on item response theory difficulty parameters in a state fourt...

Multistate processes provide a convenient framework when interest lies in characterising the transition intensities between a set of defined states. If, however, there is an unobserved event of interest (not known if and when the event occurs), which when it occurs stops future transitions in the multistate process from occurring, then drawing inference from the joint multistate and event proce...

Two lexical decision experiments were conducted to determine whether there is a specific, localized influence of the item frequency of consecutive trials (i.e., first-order sequential effects) when the trials are not related to each other. Both low-frequency words and nonwords were influenced by the frequency of the precursor word (Experiment 1). In contrast, high-frequency words showed little ...