Research into vocabulary knowledge often differentiates between breadth (how many words a person knows) and depth well the are known). Both theoretical categories essential for understanding language learners’ lexical development, but how different aspects of interconnect has not received same attention as each individual dimension, especially in terms productive knowledge. This study analyses ...

This dissertation concerns the morphophonological alternation of lexical items, determined by syntactic position. It considers three types of inflection, positional allomorphy and certain examples of phenomena collectively called "contraction", and argues that the notion of lexical insertion into d-structure, underlying many current syntactic theories, has difficulty in accounting for these cas...

The success of a Machine Translation (MT) application depends on its ability to perform lexical selection , that is, to choose lexical items in the target language that most closely match the lexical items in the input source. This task is particularly dif-cult in cases, such as those which arise in translating from English to Chinese and Korean, where the target language imposes lexical constr...

We use the term " argument structure " to refer to the syntactic configuration projected by a lexical item. It is the system of structural relations holding between heads (nuclei) and their arguments within the syntactic structures projected by nuclear items. While a lexical entry is more than this, of course, argument structure in the sense intended here is nothing other than this. Argument st...

We examined associative priming of words (e.g., TOAD) and pseudohomophones of those words (e.g., TODE) in lexical decision. In addition to word frequency effects, reliable base-word frequency effects were observed for pseudohomophones: Those based on high-frequency words elicited faster and more accurate correct rejections. Associative priming had disparate effects on high- and low-frequency it...

The most recognized unit in visual language is the “panel,” though meaningful units do exist that are both smaller and larger than panels. This is similar to spoken languages, where lexical items can be both above or below the level of the “word.” This paper will address these varying levels of representation in visual language to lead toward a general understanding of what it means to have “vi...

For analyzing the structure of a sentence we will use constituent analysis, a hierarchical model introduced by Chomsky [1]. In this framework, sentences are modeled in the form of a parse tree (see Figure 1), where leaves are lexical items, or terminals, and internal nodes are constituent labels. The constituent labels form grammatical types from the lexical items, and lexical items form the se...