whether or not there is a verbal passive construction in persian has been ‎highly controversial. traditional grammarians and most linguists have ‎argued that there is a structural passive construction in persian, similar to ‎that observed in english. within the framework of the minimalist ‎program, but more in the spirit of emonds’s (2006) division of analytic ‎passives into verbal and adjectiv...

The current study examines the syntactic and prosodic characteristics of the maternal speech to two infants between six and ten months. Consistent with previous work, we find infant-directed speech to be characterized by generally short utterances, isolated words and phrases, and large numbers of questions, but longer utterances are also found. Prosodic information provides cues to grammatical ...

Translation is a wonderful area of study especially the literary one. Unlike other kinds renditions, translation needs lot cognitive processing on part translators in that selecting one multi grammatical forms available Arabic not as easy cake considering implied meaning syntactic or morphological structure suggests. It could be stated main problem this research and structures how decide which ...

Age differences in adults' memory for performed actions (e.g., wave hand) are sometimes smaller than age differences in memory for nonperformed phrases. In this study, we examined the conditions under which performance reduces age differences in recall. Younger and older adults performed or read verb-noun phrases that were either related (e.g., actions performed in a kitchen) or unrelated. Perf...

Relationships are an essential part of the design of a database because they capture associations between things. Comparing and integrating relationships from heterogeneous databases is a difficult problem, partly because of the nature of the relationship verb phrases. This research proposes a multilayered approach to classifying the semantics of relationship verb phrases to assist in the compa...

of the parser in recognising the prescribed features. At various points, decisions had to be made about what counted as a given feature. We have taken the category of verb to include auxiliary verbs, and also present and past participles where these are constituents of a verb phrase but not otherwise. Thus \the sun is rising" contains two verbs, while \the rising sun" contains none. In the cate...

Theoretical accounts of the processing of inflectional morphology make implicit, untested assumptions about the activation of verb semantics from inflected verbs. This research used semantic priming to investigate the extent to which regular and irregular past tense forms activate verb semantics, in comparison to the verb stem. The results show that past tense forms activate verb semantics to t...

Purpose This study examines the contribution of number morphology to language comprehension abilities among children with specific impairment (SLI) and age-matched controls. It addresses question whether agreement facilitates accuracy object-initial declarative sentences. According predictions structural intervention account for German, should assist correct interpretation Method German-speakin...

Complex phrases are also brought into the categorization, so that cutlery that is in the drawer and hot water are mass phrases while tree that is in the park and tall person are count phrases. I use ‘mass term’ and ‘count term’ to cover both nouns and more complex noun phrases. (As well, some theorists admit other grammatical categories into the count/mass realm: some verb phrases and some adje...

Social media contains many types of information which is useful to businesses. In this paper we discuss automatic extraction from twitter data the descriptions of problems consumer experience with products and services. We first identify the problem tweets i.e. the tweets containing descriptions of problems. We the extract the phrases that describe the problem. In our approach such descriptions...