the body-part term dast ‘hand’ is investigated in this article as used in the first part of 160 farsi compound nouns. the questions are: how is the semantic change pattern of hand used in persian compound nouns? also how the collective mind and social/ cultural memory of persian linguistic society can be accounted for and compared with chinese and english? the aim is investigation of semantic c...

This article tests Diessel’s ‘integration’ path of development of adverbial clauses (cf. Diessel, 2004), with special focus on the acquisition of ‘causal’ adverbial clauses, in the context of the overall development of grammatical/semantic complexification in a French child’s longitudinal corpus of spontaneous speech (Madeleine, Paris Corpus) from 10 months to 4;01 years old. Three main pattern...

The temporal interpretation of utterances is crucial to many applications of natural language understanding. The interpretation of utterances clearly depends on both the linguistics or semantic context and the non-linguistic or pragmatic context. We describe an approach by which the semantic context can be optimally used in interpreting events. We propose structured event representations or sch...

– complementizer agreement in Eastern Dutch dialects – agreement in gapless relative clauses in German – case assignment in English for-to infinitives – Apparently non-local case assignment and agreement in German • Przepiórkowski (1999): – Raising across prepositions in Polish – Case agreement with numeral phrases in Polish 3 Empirical arguments in the literature semantic properties

In this talk I will describe two attempts at introducing syntactic structure into semantic models using neural network architectures. The first study focuses on a particular grammatical construction, namely relative clauses, and centers around the design of a new dataset for testing compositional distributional models. The dataset is called RELPRON, and consists of pairs of terms and properties...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a significant difference in the use of syntactic and semantic information, or the combination of both in Chinese learners’ processing strategies of English subject and object relative clauses. It also aims at determining whether a relationship exists in Chinese speakers’ L1 and L2 processing strategies. Thirty three advanced and 27 le...

An auditory sentence comprehension task investigated the extent to which the integration of contextual and structural cues was mediated by verbal memory span with 32 English-speaking six- to eight-year-old children. Spoken relative clause sentences were accompanied by visual context pictures which fully (depicting the actions described within the relative clause) or partially (depicting several...

This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence completion task to assess which alternative interpretations are dominant as the relative clause unfolds; Study 2 compared reading times in object relative clauses containing different animacy configurations to unambiguous passive...