Vietnamese compounds and phrasal constructions are investigated for phonetic correlates of lexical stress. Two series of experiments on the acoustic and perceptual characteristics of Vietnamese compound words and their phrasal counterparts are reported here and in a companion paper (Nguyen & Ingram, this volume), involving paradigmatic (same position within a syntactic frame) and syntagmatic co...

Many existing information retrieval models do not explicitly take into account information about word associations. Our approach makes use of first and second order relationships found in natural language, known as syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations, respectively. This is achieved by using a formal model of word meaning within the query expansion process. On ad hoc retrieval, our approac...

A noun-compound is a compressed proposition that requires an audience to recover the implicit relationship between two concepts that are expressed as nouns. Listeners recover this relationship by considering the most typical relations afforded by each concept. These relational possibilities are evident at a linguistic level in the syntagmatic patterns that connect nouns to the verbal actions th...

The ATR vowel harmony patterns observed in Kinande have received persistent attention for their non-canonical properties, such as a combination of stem control and dominance, dominance reversal, optional extension the harmonic domain from that prosodic word to nominal phrase (DP). A full optimality-theoretic account complex has, however, not yet been developed. We fill this gap argue Syntagmati...

This work is focused on the problem of genre specificity within English language academic discourse today. The goal research to reveal and analyze system relations regularly steadily showing themselves one definite student essay, their significance role in official university communicative space. abovesaid can be found at both structural level, i.e. special text arrangement essays, conceptual l...

We present a novel method for mapping thematic trends called "Classification by Preferential Clustered Link" (CPCL). This method clusters relevant textual units (terms) from a corpus of texts, based on meaningful linguistic relations (syntactic variations) identified amongst the units. Terms related through syntactic variations are represented in the form of a graph and are first clustered into...

Recent years have witnessed a renewal of interest in variable morph ordering, the situation where the position of a morph in the word is not constant. These situations present a challenge to extant inferential-realisational approaches to morphology (Stump, 2001), insofar as these adopt implicitly or explicitly an a-morphous approach to morphological composition (Anderson, 1992). In this paper w...

In this paper, we present an unsupervised hybrid textmining approach to automatic acquisition of domain relevant terms and their relations. We deploy the TFIDFbased term classification method to acquire domain relevant terms. Further, we apply two strategies in order to learn lexico-syntatic patterns which indicate paradigmatic and domain relevant syntagmatic relations between the extracted ter...

In this paper I propose a general approach to the study of constraints on cooccurrence of grammatical categories and present one case study of a functionally infelicitous combination from the domain of TAM categories, the present perfective. It is argued that constraints on co-occurrence of particular categories can be accounted for in terms of local markedness and markedness hierarchies. This ...