In this paper, we describe the construction of a parallel Chinese-English patent sentence corpus which is created from noisy parallel patents. First, we use a publicly available sentence aligner to find parallel sentence candidates in the noisy parallel data. Then we compare and evaluate three individual measures and different ensemble techniques to sort the parallel sentence candidates accordi...

There are several locations within the paper that refer to the incorrect Supporting Information file. The locations of the errors and the correct Supporting Information files are as follows: In the Results and Discussion section, the eighth sentence of the first paragraph under the subheading “Tyramine, octopamine and dopamine evoke complex direct-currents (ID) in OA/TAMac injected oocytes” sho...

Ten participants learned a miniature language (Anigram), which they later employed to verbally describe a pictured event. Using magnetoencephalography, the cortical dynamics of sentence production in Anigram was compared with that in the native tongue from the preparation phase up to the production of the final word. At the preparation phase, a cartoon image with two animals prompted the partic...

We evaluated the hypothesis that listeners can generate expectations about upcoming input using anticipatory deaccenting, in which the absence of a nuclear pitch accent on an utterance-new noun is licensed by the subsequent repetition of that noun (e.g. Drag the SQUARE with the house to the TRIangle with the house). The phonemic restoration paradigm was modified to obscure word-initial segmenta...

This dissertation is a study of rules in Turkish which change grammatical relations or are sensitive to them. It addresses issues of interest to descriptive Turkish grammar and 10 general linguistic theory. Two chapters are devoted to questions about intransitive clauses. Chap' AT 2 examines the claim that impersonal passivizatlon, like personal passivization, involves the advancement of a dire...

This study investigates brain responses to violations of information structure in wh-question-answer pairs, with particular emphasis on violations of focus assignment in it-clefts (It was the queen that silenced the banker). Two types of ERP responses in answers to wh-questions were found. First, all words in the focus-marking (cleft) position elicited a large positivity (P3b) characteristic of...

In automatic voice response systems where a large number of words are inserted into fixed sentences, such as in voiceguided car navigation systems, one of the most important problems is the adjustment of the fundamental frequency (F0) contour of the inserted word to suit the F0 context of the fixed sentence. The effects of intonation and tone on the F0 contours of Chinese words can be described...

Linguists have suggested that one mechanism for the creative extension of meaning in language involves mapping, or constructing correspondences between conceptual domains. For example, the sentence, "The clever boys used a cardboard box as a boat," sets up a novel mapping between the concepts cardboard box and boat, while "His main method of transportation is a boat," relies on a more conventio...