the literature on collocations ive do nor find any clear suggestion on how to predict which collocations n,ay be more problematic for the translators and fl tcarners. this article attempts to categorize collocations in six types regardless of their syntactic patterns. front syntactic point of vie1v, this study is limited to adj + n and n + n structures, whiclt contain the most con1n1on collocat...

We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach (Goddard & Wierzbicka 2014) to the lexical-semantic analysis of English evaluational adjectives and compare the results with the picture developed in the Appraisal Framework (Martin & White 2005). The analysis is corpus-assisted, with examples mainly drawn from film and book reviews, and supported by collocational and statistical informa...

Research on syntactic ambiguity resolution in language comprehension has shown that subjects’ processing decisions are influenced by a variety of heterogeneous factors such as e.g. syntactic complexity, semantic fit and the discourse frequency of the competing structures. The present paper investigates a further potentially relevant factor in such processes: effects of syntagmatic lexical chunk...

Sense tagging is probably one of the challenges that corpus linguists have to face in the near future. So far, computerisation of this task has yielded very modest results despite numerous efforts, and sense tagging is turning out to be a touchy task. Difficulties stem from various sources, extracting disambiguating information from the context. However, one of the main problems that lies upstr...

Untranslated words still constitute a major problem for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), and current SMT systems are limited by the quantity of parallel training texts. Augmenting the training data with paraphrases generated by pivoting through other languages alleviates this problem, especially for the so-called “low density” languages. But pivoting requires additional parallel texts. We...

Identifying collocations in a sentence, in order to ensure their proper processing in subsequent applications, and performing the syntactic analysis of the sentence are interrelated processes. Syntactic information is crucial for detecting collocations, and vice versa, collocational information is useful for parsing. This article describes an original approach in which collocations are identifi...

This paper studies the effect of word frequency and neighbourhood density on lexical tone merge in Dalian Mandarin. Monosyllabic words with two lexical falling tones (i.e. Tone1 and Tone 4) are produced by 60 native speakers from two different generations (middle-aged vs. young). The stimuli consist of three conditions: high neighbourhood density with high word frequency (HDHF), high neighbourh...

This investigation studied the influence of lexical factors, known to impact lexical access in adults, on the word retrieval of children. Participants included 320 typical and atypical (word-finding difficulties) language-learning children, ranging in age from 7 to 12 years. Lexical factors examined included word frequency, age-of-acquisition, neighborhood density, neighborhood frequency, and s...

A large body of literature has characterized unimodal monolingual and bilingual lexicons and how neighborhood density affects lexical access; however there have been relatively fewer studies that generalize these findings to bimodal (M2) second language (L2) learners of sign languages. The goal of the current study was to investigate parallel language activation in M2L2 learners of sign languag...