The present study investigated the contribution of lexico-semantic associations to impairments in establishing reference in schizophrenia. We examined event-related potentials as schizophrenia patients and healthy, demographically matched controls read five-sentence scenarios. Sentence 4 introduced a noun that referred back to three possible referents introduced in Sentences 1-3. These referent...

We are often required to interpret discordant emotional signals. Whilst equivalent cognitive paradigms cause noticeable conflict via their behavioural and psychophysiological effects, the same may not necessarily be true for discordant emotion. The skin conductance (SCR) and heart rate (HR) of participants were measured during a classic Stroop task and one in which the emotions conveyed by lexi...

This paper reviews and summarizes six diier-ent types of extra-grammatical phenomena and their corresponding recovery principles at the syntactic level, and describes some techniques used to deal with four of them completely within an Extended GLR parser (EGLR). Partial solutions to the remaining two by the EGLR parser are also discussed. The EGLR has been implemented.

The question of whether it is possible to characterise grammatical knowledge in probabilistic terms is central to determining the relationship of linguistic representation to other cognitive domains. We present a statistical model of grammaticality which maps the probabilities of a statistical model for sentences in parts of the British National Corpus (BNC) into grammaticality scores, using va...

this study aimed to investigate how iranian efl learners performed in producing sentences containing idioms and whether they had any problems in producing such sentences. this query, subsequently, raised the question of whether idioms influenced the participants’ grammaticality judgment on idiom-containing sentences. for this purpose, firstly, the writings of 24 learners were investigated for a...

This paper describes our approach to the 2016 QATS quality assessment shared task. We trained three independent Random Forest classifiers in order to assess the quality of the simplified texts in terms of grammaticality, meaning preservation and simplicity. We used the language model of Google-Ngram as feature to predict the grammaticality. Meaning preservation is predicted using two complement...

In this article, by means of lexico-semantic and lexico-stylistic analysis, it is proved that the emotive context performs a special meaning-generating function in literary text, influencing meaning text as whole reader’s understanding it.
 Purpose. The purpose article to identify role semantic structure text.
 Methods. Methodologically, an interdisciplinary one, based on use both gen...