When infants hear sentences containing unfamiliar words, are some language-world links (such as noun-object) more readily formed than others (verb-predicate)? What if the context renders verb-predicate and noun-object interpretations equally plausible? We examined 14-15-month-olds’ capacity for linking semantic elements of scenes with simple bisyllabic nonce utterances. Each syllable either ref...

Traditional accounts of verb subcategorization, from the classic work of Fillmore on, require either a considerable number of syntactic rules to account for diverse sentence constructions, including crosslanguage variation, or else complex linking rules mapping the thematic roles of semantic event templates with possible syntactic forms. In this paper we exhibit a third approach: we implement, ...

It has been observed many times that, in English and many other languages, verb learning starts later and proceeds more slowly than noun learning (e.g., Macnamara, 1972). It has been speculated that this is because verbs are generally harder to learn than nouns, at least in part because the wordworld relations between verbs and their referents are harder to detect than those between nouns and t...

This paper represents the procedure of building syntactic knowledge base. This study is to construct basic sentence pattern automatically by using the POS-tagged corpus in balanced KAIST corpus, and electronic dictionary for Korean, and to construct syntactic knowledge base with specific information added to the lexicographer's analysis. The summary of work process will be as follows: 1) Extrac...