BACKGROUND AND AIMS Impaired generation of verbs relative to nouns has been reported in Parkinson's disease (PD) and has been associated with the frontal pathophysiology of PD. The aim of the present study was to measure noun/verb generation abilities in PD and to determine whether noun/verb generation is affected by stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN). PATIENTS AND METHODS 8 partici...

Noun compounds, consisting of two nouns (the head and the modifier) that are combined into a single concept, differ in terms of their plausibility: school bus is a more plausible compound than saddle olive. The present study investigates which factors influence the plausibility of attested and novel noun compounds. Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs) are used to obtain formal (vector) represe...

Linguistically, a noun classifier is a morpheme or word used to classify a noun according to its inherent semantic features. Noun classifiers in Chinese are obligatory as a category of its own and used to specify a noun when it is used with a determiner or a numeral. In other words, classifiers are never used independently. It must occur with a numeral (e.g., yi “one”, er “two”, san “three”) an...

In discussing the structure of noun phrases crosslinguistically, I will assume a rather rough characterization of noun phrases, as syntactic constituents which serve as arguments of verbs. There are a variety of ways in which this is inadequate as a precise definition and there are a number of legitimate questions about exactly what ought to be considered a noun phrase, but these issues are som...

In this paper we investigate the impact of candidate terms filtering using linguistic information on the accuracy of automatic keyphrase extraction from scientific papers. According to linguistic knowledge, the noun phrases are most likely to be keyphrases. However the definition of a noun phrase can vary from a system to another. We have identified five POS tag sequence definitions of a noun p...

Abstract This study investigates native German speakers’ and bilingual Turkish/German sensitivity to constraints on verbal agreement with pseudo-partitive subjects such as eine Packung Tabletten (“a pack of pills”). Although number the first noun phrase (headed by a container noun) is considered be norm, second (containee) also possible. We combined scalar acceptability ratings stochastic const...