We investigated the time course of sentence formulation in Tagalog, a verb-initial language in which the verb obligatorily agrees with one of its arguments. Eye-tracked participants described pictures of transitive events. Fixations to the two characters in the events were compared across sentences differing in agreement marking and post-verbal word order. Fixation patterns show evidence for tw...

Children utilize a range of cues in verb learning. The current studies explore children’s weighting two different for verb-meaning: number syntactic arguments and event location. Naigles (1990) demonstrated that children use bootstrapping mapping transitive intransitive verbs—they hypothesize verbs refer to one-participant events two-participant events. Previous work also indicates are sensitiv...

When infants hear sentences containing unfamiliar words, are some language-world links (such as noun-object) more readily formed than others (verb-predicate)? What if the context renders verb-predicate and noun-object interpretations equally plausible? We examined 14-15-month-olds’ capacity for linking semantic elements of scenes with simple bisyllabic nonce utterances. Each syllable either ref...

A fter perusing the articles and guest editors’ introduction for this issue on extreme data, I googled “extreme,” and hundreds of links bubbled up—from computing, coupons, data, and fatigue, to science, scientists and science fun, to “extreme x” (don’t ask). I then concluded that “extreme” has become an unreliable buzzword, used somewhat indiscriminately for its shock value. That said, the fact...

It has been observed many times that, in English and many other languages, verb learning starts later and proceeds more slowly than noun learning (e.g., Macnamara, 1972). It has been speculated that this is because verbs are generally harder to learn than nouns, at least in part because the wordworld relations between verbs and their referents are harder to detect than those between nouns and t...

This paper describes the techniques used for our system participating in the Document Understanding Conference 2006. We describe a new system, built from scratch, that focuses primarily on collecting models of possible answers for each question from the Internet, and applying those models to select the answer sentences from the documents in the collection. The system performed averagely in the ...

In this article, the researcher discusses present verbs. Present verbs are typically employed in simple tense to describe events that occur on a regular basis present. This article use of twelve news articles CNN.com. The goal research is determine how many used CNN.com and which most often utilized. I chose because one largest mass media world. Mass was first initiated by Ted Turner Reese Scho...

Traditionally. the syntax-semantics interface has been characterized by the projection of verb arguments onto the level of syntax based on (lexical semantic) information associated with the verb (Jackendoff, 1990; Levin, 1993; Van Valin, 1993). The assumption in current approaches is that the rules linking arguments to syntactic positions are universal. This implies that verbs with similar lexi...

In this article, we address the task of comparing and combining different semantic verb classifications within one language. We present a methodology for the manual analysis of individual resources on the level of semantic features. The resulting representations can be aligned across resources, and allow a contrastive analysis of these resources. In a case study on the Manner of Motion domain a...

Complex predicates (CPs) are a highly productive predicational phenomenon in Hindi and Urdu and present a challenge for deep syntactic parsing. For CPs, a combination of a noun and light verb express a single event. The combinatorial preferences of nouns with one (or more) light verb is useful for predicting an instance of a CP. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic method to obtain noun g...