1. Introduction This paper investigates the effect of changing syntactic categories on speaker choice, using the needs to be done ∼ needs doing alternation as the testing ground. The two alternants in this alternation have different syntactic properties , and so we hypothesize that the syntactic preferences of the alternation's environment influence alternant choice. Our hypothesis is that, all...

In the present study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to compare auditory sentence comprehension in 16 children with developmental dyslexia (age 9-12 years) and unimpaired controls matched on age, sex, and nonverbal intelligence. Passive sentences were presented, which were either correct or contained a syntactic violation (phrase structure) or a semantic violation (selectional ...

Chemical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the basic step for consequent information extraction tasks such as named entity resolution, drug-drug interaction discovery, extraction of the names of the molecules and their properties. Improvement in the performance of such systems may affects the quality of the subsequent tasks. Chemical text from which data for named entity recognition is extracte...

The paper deals with some features of Late Classical Chinese based on material from «Lunheng» (1st century AD), specifically, the process 被 bèi grammaticalization and its possibility to be a distinctive context for noun lexemes. In modern Chinese, is passive marker in sentences such as O SV. There also short form like V, which initial stage formation construction, while full appears late mediev...

INTRODUCTION Functional MR imaging is increasingly being used for presurgical language assessment in the treatment of patients with brain tumors, epilepsy, vascular malformations, and other conditions. The inherent complexity of fMRI, which includes numerous processing steps and selective analyses, is compounded by institution-unique approaches to patient training, paradigm choice, and an eclec...

The aim of this research is to find out the second semester students’ ability in TOEFL Listening Comprehension at Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Cipto Hadi Pranoto. method applied descriptive qualitative research. It revealed that Longman Introductory Course Book by Deborah Phillips for Test show level difficulties Part A (short conversation) 75 % comprising from 55 moderate, skill 1(restatement),...