The present paper describes various syntactic sentence fusion techniques for Bengali language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family. Firstly a clause identification and classification system marks clause boundaries and classifies them as principle clause and subordinate clauses. A rule-based sentence classification system has been developed to categorize sentences as simple, complex an...

Purpose: Two-year-olds produce 3 person singular –s more accurately on verbs in sentencefinal compared to sentence-medial position. This study was designed to determine whether these sentence position effects can be explained by perceptual factors. Methods: For this purpose, we compared 22and 27-month-olds’ perception and elicited production of 3 person singular –s in sentence medial versus fin...

This paper proposes an effective method to extract salient sentences using contextual information and statistical approaches for Text Summarization. The proposed method combines two consecutive sentences into a bi-gram pseudo sentence so that contextual information is applied to statistical sentence-extraction techniques. Salient bigram pseudo sentences are first selected by the statistical sen...

The goal of this study is to examine prosodic accommodation, specifically to test accommodation of prosodic boundaries with native speakers of Seoul Korean. Sixteen native speakers of Seoul Korean participated in a sentence completion task where they were asked to complete a target sentence after reading (in the baseline condition) or listening to (in the test condition) a context sentence. In ...

PURPOSE The authors investigated the ability of deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) to use sentence context to facilitate the perception of spoken words. METHOD Deaf children with CIs (n = 24) and an age-matched group of children with normal hearing (n = 31) were presented with lexically controlled sentences and were asked to repeat each sentence in its entirety. Performance was analyz...

The part between quotation marks is called the quote, the rest is the reporting clause. From (1) it is clear that quotes can be sentence-initial, discontinuous, or sentence-final. One of my conclusions will be that the quote-final construction (1c) is fundamentally different from the other two. Quotative constructions are not restricted to high-frequent reporting verbs such as zeggen ‘say’ and ...

Intonational realisation of topic and focus in child Dutch Aoju Chen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Languages express the topic-focus distinction in different ways (e.g. word order, particles, intonation). In this study we focus on intonation and in particular look at type of pitch accent and phrasing. There has been relatively little discussion on the use of intonation t...

This study compared sentence intonation of L1 Mandarin by native speakers and L2 Mandarin by Cantonese learners, with both acoustic analysis and perceptual experiment. Three types of sentences (i.e., statement, intonation question, and particle question) ending with different tones and in different lengths were investigated. The perceptual experiment showed that declarative intonation in L2 spe...

Recall response durations were used to clarify processing in working-memory tasks. Experiment 1 examined children's performance in reading span, a task in which sentences were processed and the final word of each sentence was retained for subsequent recall. Experiment 2 examined the development of listening-, counting-, and digit-span task performance. Responses were much longer in the reading-...