The Polish Lexicon of Japanese Grammar Terms was published in 2021. It constitutes an attempt at a systemic description grammar, not emphasized by most grammatical sources on the language. Due to limited size paper, being new research but same time introducing methodology lexicon, main concepts related its compilation are presented example topic-prominence phenomenon and morphological marking.

Subjects are preferred antecedents for pronominal reference (Mathews and Chodorow, 1988; Hudson-D’Zmura and Tanenhaus, 1997). Many pronoun resolution algorithms account for this by assuming a hierarchy of syntactic prominence with SUBJECTS > OBJECTS. However, for many verbs in English, syntactic role is conflated with semantic role: That is, syntactic SUBJECTS are often semantic AGENTS and so o...

We argue that the grammatical diversity observed among the world's languages emerges from the struggle between individual cognitive systems trying to impose their preferred structure on human language. We investigate the cognitive bases of the two most common word orders in the world's languages: SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) and SVO. Evidence from language change, grammaticalization, stability of ...

The perception of rhythmic differences among languages relies on varieties in periodicity within prominence groups. But the consensus in phonetic research on rhythm is that existing measures don’t capture true rhythm by that definition instead, they merely measure short-term timing. This work proposes a new rhythm measure, the Generalized Variability Index (GVI), that examines durational contex...

In this study acoustical as well as lexical/syntactic correlates of prominence are analyzed and discussed. Prominence is defined at the word level and is based on listener judgments. Spoken sentences from many different speakers, taken from the Dutch Polyphone corpus of telephone speech, are analyzed. A selection of useful acoustical input features is chosen for classification of word prominenc...

Recent work has suggested that prominence perception could be driven by the predictability of the acoustic prosodic features of speech. On the other hand, lexical predictability and part of speech information are also known to correlate with prominence. In this paper, we investigate how the bottom-up acoustic and top-down lexical cues contribute to sentence prominence by using both types of fea...

According to the widely accepted Lexical Category Prominence Rule (LCPR), prominence assignment to triconstituent compounds depends on the branching direction. Left-branching compounds, that is, compounds with a left-hand complex constituent, are held to have highest prominence on the left-most constituent, whereas right-branching compounds have highest prominence on the second of the three con...

This paper describes work directed towards the development of a syllable prominence-based prosody generation functionality for a German unit selection speech synthesis system. A general concept for syllable prominence-based prosody generation in unit selection synthesis is proposed. As a first step towards its implementation, an automated syllable prominence annotation procedure based on acoust...

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