the present paper is concerned with the structural characteristics and contents of the russian resistance poets from the outset up to the end of the world war ii, 1941-1945. regarding the linguistic and literary structures of the resistance poetry of this period, such features as changes in the lexical structure of poems, outspokenness, proximity of poetry to slogans can be easily observed. sem...

Syntactic trees, or phrase markers, have originally been suggested as a representation of syntax in the mind based on purely linguistic grounds. In this paper, the psychological reality of syntactic trees and hierarchical ordering is explored from another perspective -that of the neuropsychology of language breakdown. The study reported here examined several syntactic domains that rely on diffe...

Machine translation (MT) has been both praised and criticized since the 1930’s when it was first introduced. Today, MT − much improved since then, is a vital tool for the human translator, although not without its problems. One important unresolved issue is the success of MT for different text types. In the present study, we compare the performance of German-English machine translation in four ...

Inducing a grammar from text has proven to be a notoriously challenging learning task despite decades of research. The primary reason for its difficulty is that in order to induce plausible grammars, the underlying model must be capable of representing the intricacies of language while also ensuring that it can be readily learned from data. The majority of existing work on grammar induction has...

In the last 50 years of cognitive science, linguistic theory has proposed more and more articulated structures, while computer science has shown that simpler, flatter structures are more easily processed. If we are interested in adequate models of human linguistic abilities, models that explain the very rapid and accurate human recognition and production of ordinary fluent speech, it seems we n...