The acquisition of English noun and verb morphology is modeled using a single-system connectionist network. The network is trained to produce the plurals and past tense forms of a large corpus of monosyllabic English nouns and verbs. The developmental trajectory of network performance is analyzed in detail and is shown to mimic a number of important features of the acquisition of English noun a...

The goals of this research were to determine whether speakers adjust the stress patterns of words within sentences to create an alternation between strong and weak beats and to explore whether this rhythmic alternation contributes to the characteristics stress differences between two major lexical categories of English. Two experiments suggested that speakers do alter lexical stress in accordan...

this article is an attempt first to introduce translation as a linguistic-cultural process, and then to seek the impact of the english language on persian modal auxiliaries. parallel corpora of persian translated and original texts derived from the area of educational psychology were analyzed based on the theoretical framework of house (1997, 2001). the results show us that although the discour...

Italiano. Si è analizzata la selezione dell’ausiliare da parte dei verbi intransitivi, all’interno di un gruppo di neologismi italiani. I verbi studiati sono stati tratti da elenchi di neologismi disponibili online. Si è quindi verificata la loro presenza e il loro comportamento sul corpus itTenTen. Tali verbi hanno dimostrato una evidente preferenza per l’ausiliare avere. English. We analyzed ...

This study focuses on the neural processing of English sentences containing unergative, unaccusative and transitive verbs. We demonstrate common responses in bilateral superior temporal gyri in response to listening to sentences containing unaccusative and transitive verbs compared to unergative verbs; we did not detect any activation that was specific to unaccusatives. Our findings indicate th...

Abstract: Native speakers of Spanish (children aged 6–7, 10–11 and adults) rated grammatical and ungrammatical groundand figure-locative sentences with high frequency, low frequency and novel verbs (e. g., Lisa llenó/forró/nupó la caja con papel; *Lisa llenó/forró/nupó papel en la caja, ‘Lisa filled/ lined/nupped the box with paper’; ‘Lisa filled/lined/nupped paper into the box’) using a 5-poin...

This paper examines the syntactic properties of Serbian modal verb trebati ‘need’, which appears in environment ‘NP – ‘need’ finite da-clause’. I show that is a raising and preverbal NP (raised) subject. Trebati (φ-)agrees with only optionally, surprising since other verbs agree their subjects obligatorily. Furthermore, subject free to remain embedded clause, suggesting operation not triggered ...

The main part of this dissertation consists of four loosely connected chapters on the semantics of modals. The chapters inform each other and employ similar methods, but generally each one is self-contained and can be read in isolation. Chapter 2 introduces new semantics for epistemic modality. I argue that the epistemic modal base consists of the propositions that can be obtained by the interl...