This study compares lexical retrieval amongst monolinguals and intermediate bilinguals and advanced bilinguals. It also investigates the possible effects of their language learning strategies on their respective lexical retrieval advantage. The study used a mixed methods design and the groups consisted of 20 Persian near-monolinguals, 20 Persian-English intermediate level bilinguals, and 20 Per...

Nick Asher: (Invited): Constraints in Discourse: Part of a more general theory of rationality? SDRT promotes two central ideas relevant to constraints in discourse: (1) dynamic semantic update is constrained by discourse structure; (2) discourse coherence is a scalar phenomenon and so discourse structure construction should proceed by maximizing discourse coherence given the resources available...

We present a study that investigates that factors that determine what makes a good lexical substitution. We begin by observing that there is a correlation between the corpus frequency of words and the number of WordNet senses they have, and hypothesise that readers might prefer common, but more ambiguous words over less ambiguous but also less common ones. We identify four properties of a word ...

Despite intergovernmental calls for greater policy coherence to tackle rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there has been a striking lack of coherence internationally and nationally between trade and health sectors. In this commentary, I explore the arguments by Lenucha and Thow in relation to barriers for greater coherence for NCDs, apply them to regional trade ag...

Sub-categorized arguments introduced by the French preposition pour has been under-studied in previous work, as can be seen from the incompleteness of existing lexical-syntactic resources in that regard. In this paper, we briefly introduce the various types of sub-categorization in pour, which are to be distinguished from occurrences of pour as a discourse connective. We describe how we added a...

In this paper we present a dialogue model which has as its main goat to place in context the utterance generated by the speaker. The dialogue model considers that an intervention generates one or more ilocutive acts which are handled as flmctions. These functions subcategorize to or are subcategorized by other functions in the dialogue. The model uses an exchange schema with the purpose of expr...

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Dividing documents into topically-coherent units and discovering their topic might have many uses. We present a system that proceeds in two steps: (1) the input text is segmented at places where there is a probable topic shift, (2) lexic...

In this paper a version of LFG will be developed, which has only one level of representation and is equivalent to the modified version of [2], presented in [3]. The structures of this monostratal version are f-structures, augmented by additional information about the derived symbols and their linear order. For these structures it is possible to define an adequate concept of direct derivability ...

Computational stylometry, as in authorship attribution or profiling, has a large potential for applications in diverse areas: literary science, forensics, language psychology, sociolinguistics, even medical diagnosis. Yet, many of the basic research questions of this field are not studied systematically or even at all. In this paper we will go into these problems, and suggest that a reinterpret...