Abstract Usage-based linguistics postulates that multi-word expressions constitute a substantial part of language structure and use, are formed through repeated chunking stored as exemplar wholes. They also re-used to produce new sequences by means schematization. While there is extensive research on in many spoken languages, little known about the status mainstream U.S. variety American Sign L...

We present additional analysis and results of our approach in the supplementary material. First, we analyze the verb prediction performance in Sec. 1. In Sec. 2, we present t-SNE [2] plots to visualize the verb and role embeddings. We present several examples of the influence of different roles on predicting the verb-frame correctly. This is visualized in Sec. 3 through propagation matrices sim...

Verbs are the centerpiece of the sentence, and understanding of verb meanings is essential for language acquisition. Yet verb learning is said to be more challenging than noun learning for young children for several reasons. First, while nouns tend to denote concrete objects, which are perceptually stable over time, verbs tend to refer to action events, which are temporally ephemeral, and the b...

We present a factorized compositional distributional semantics model for the representation of transitive verb constructions. Our model first produces (subject, verb) and (verb, object) vector representations based on the similarity of the nouns in the construction to each of the nouns in the vocabulary and the tendency of these nouns to take the subject and object roles of the verb. These vect...

unlike the languages we know, some of the arabic sentences form without any verbs. arab grammarians call these sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate without any linking verbs, nominal sentences. examining theses sentences indicates that their predicate is composed of one of the following words or structures: 1. noun, 2. prepositional phrase, 3. an adverb of time or place, 4. a nomi...

Background: The purpose of this study was to describe advertisements of children's entertainment products in a popular magazine, Parents, and to determine if they illustrated behavior that was physically active or sedentary. Methods: The sample was comprised of Parents magazines (January 2010 to December 2015). Coding involved determining if the advertisement was promoting sedentary or active b...