In this paper, we present a stochastic language modeling tool which aims at retrieving variable-length phrases (multigrams), assuming bigram dependencies between them. The phrase retrieval can be intermixed with a phrase clustering procedure, so that the language data are iteratively structured at both a paradigmatic and a syntagmatic level in a fully integrated way. Perplexity results on ATR t...

This article demonstrates that very young children have knowledge of a range of syntactic categories. Speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance (MLUs) ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: Determiner, Adjective, Noun, Noun Phrase, Preposition, and Prepositional Phrase. Performance was evaluated...

Suffixes can surface or can be suppressed depending on context in Korean. Shin (1982) argues that the case markermarked phrases deliver new information, while the case marker-suppressed phrases given information. The tonal pattern of the Accentual Phrase in Korean, LHLH, is not specific to morphological constituents within the phrase but is a property of the phrase (Jun 1993). Given that prosod...

Collocational prepositional phrases like ten koste van (at the expense of), met het oog op (with an eye on), and onder het mom van (under the pretext of) are patterns of the form P-NP-P, which have a non-compositional semantics and which are syntactically rigid or idiosyncratic. We present a number of linguistic tests which set such items apart from regularly built prepositional phrases. To fin...