By 24 months, most children spontaneously and correctly use adjectives. Yet prior laboratory research that has studied lexical acquisition in young children reports that children up to 3-years-old map novel adjectives to object properties only in very limited situations (Child Development 59 (1988) 411; Child Development 64 (1993) 1651; Child Development 71 (2000) 649; Developmental Psychology ...

In order to build technology that has the ability to answer questions relevant to national and global security, e.g., on food insecurity in certain parts of the world, one has to implement machine reading technology that extracts causal mechanisms from texts. Unfortunately, many of these texts describe these interactions using vague, high-level language. One particular example is the use of gra...

Although the traditional focus of research into degree modification has been the adjectival extended projection, it has long been recognized that degree modification or something quite like it is possible in other categories as well (Bolinger 1972, Abney 1987, Deutjes 1997, Kennedy and McNally 2004, a.o.). The conditions under which it is possible, though, and mechanisms that bring it about rem...

The Problem: Words in natural language sentences exhibit regularities in where they can appear in a sentence. These regularities are captured as parts of speech: nouns name things in the world; verbs represent actions and events; adjectives and adverbs describe properties of nouns and manners of verbs. Natural language has tremendous freedom in sharing meaning between these parts of speech (con...

The perceived prominence of three parts of speech (POS), nouns, verbs and adjectives, in three utterance positions, initial, intermediate and final, were examined in a perceptual experiment to see whether previously observed reductions in prominence of intermediate items were the result of positional effects or because words in this position belonged to the same POS, namely verbs. It was found ...

1. Adjectives and parts of speech systems Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, lexical classes are among the most frequently overlooked...

The article concerns the Latin Grammar by Emilia Kubicka, published in 2019. book presents rules of pronunciation, conjugation, declension nouns, adjectives, numerals, pronouns, and indeclinable parts speech such as adverbs prepositions. However, grammar does not present all principles that govern structure sentences, has numerous errors.