Objectives: Nouns and verbs are the central conceptual linguistic units of language acquisition in all human languages. While the noun-bias hypothesis claims that nouns have a privilege in children’s lexical development across languages, studies on Mandarin and Korean and other languages have challenged this view. More recent cross-linguistic naming studies on children in German, Turkish,...

Our long-term goal is to contribute to the integration of formal and lexical semantics. Our more immediate theoretical starting point is the idea of “text as theory”, within a model-theoretic semantic framework. We describe a set of empirical problems in the domain of genitive modifiers which offer a challenge to theories of the integration of lexical, compositional, and contextual information....

This paper describes LINGUA an architecture for text processing in Bulgarian. First, the pre-processing modules for tokenisation, sentence splitting, paragraph segmentation, partof-speech tagging, clause chunking and noun phrase extraction are outlined. Next, the paper proceeds to describe in more detail the anaphora resolution module. Evaluation results are reported for each processing task.

When a reader encounters a noun, she tends to rapidly associate the noun with a mental referent (representation of entity in question). Our computational model confirms that a memory-based account is sufficient to account for a high rate of success at preliminary referent retrieval. Definite noun phrases ("The dog") can be used anaphorically to refer to referents already mentioned in the text, ...

The tendency for languages to use harmonic word order patterns—orders that place heads in a consistent position with respect to modifiers or other dependents—has been noted since the 1960s. As with many other statistical typological tendencies, there has been debate regarding whether harmony reflects properties of human cognition or forces external to it. Recent research using laboratory langua...

The identification of noun groups in text is a well researched task and serves as a pre-step for other natural language processing tasks, such as the extraction of keyphrases or technical terms. We present a first version of a noun group chunker that, given an unannotated text corpus, adapts itself to the domain at hand in an unsupervised way. Our approach is inspired by findings from cognitive...

Functional neuroimaging research has recently revealed brain network interactions during performance on creative thinking tasks-particularly among regions of the default and executive control networks-but the cognitive mechanisms related to these interactions remain poorly understood. Here we test the hypothesis that the executive control network can interact with the default network to inhibit...

This study investigated the presence of noun or verb bias in 15 MandarinEnglish bilingual pre-school children. The naturalistic bilingual child-caregiver interactions were tape-recorded for 30 minutes each time. The study also addressed the relationship between children‟s language production and the salient positions of the caregivers‟ language input. The findings show that the bilingual childr...

russian language, with regard to its grammar, is a language with its own special complexities, hardly found in other languages. although languages are different from each other, they have some similarities as well. the iranian learner, while learning russian, analyzes the sentences using patterns similar to his/ her native language patterns. occasionally, such native patterns cause the learner ...