In a series of experiments, the authors investigated whether naming latencies for homophones (e.g., /nlambdan/) are a function of specific-word frequency (i.e., the frequency of nun) or a function of cumulative-homophone frequency (i.e., the sum of the frequencies of nun and none). Specific-word but not cumulative-homophone frequency affected picture-naming latencies. This result was obtained i...

This paper explains the principles of dependency analysis by reduction and its correspondence to the notions of dependency and dependency tree. The explanation is illustrated by examples from Czech, a language with a relatively high degree of word-order freedom. The paper sums up the basic features of methods of dependency syntax. The method serves as a basis for the verification (and explanati...

Abstract Previous research has provided evidence for cross-language phonological activation during visual word recognition. However, such findings mainly came from alphabetic languages, and readers’ familiarity with the two scripts might differ. The present study aimed to test whether can be observed in Chinese, a logographic script, without confounding factor of script as readers read same dif...

We describe the design of an LFG-based generation system that provides a framework for empirical studies on the choice among grammatical paraphrases (i.e. syntactic alternations), as an effect of interacting soft constraints. To be able to study the relevant variation, we extend the XLE generation architecture so it no longer departs from standard f-structures, but from a more abstract level of...

This paper introduces the notion of ‘co-testability transformation’. As opposed to traditional testability transformations, which replace the original program in testing, co-testability transformations are designed to be used in conjunction with the original program (and any additional co-transformations as well). Until now, testability transformations have only been used to improve test data g...

We address the question of which syntactic representation is best suited for role-semantic analysis of English in the FrameNet paradigm. We compare systems based on dependencies and constituents, and a dependency syntax with a rich set of grammatical functions with one with a smaller set. Our experiments show that dependency-based and constituent-based analyzers give roughly equivalent performa...

Copula constructions are problematic in the syntax of most languages. The paper describes three different dependency syntactic methods for handling copula constructions: function head, content head and complex label analysis. Furthermore, we also propose a POS-based approach to copula detection. We evaluate the impact of these approaches in computational parsing, in two parsing experiments for ...