The Associative Read-Out Model (AROM) suggests that associations between words can be defined by the log likelihood that they occur together more often in sentences than predicted by their single-word frequency. Moreover, semantic relations can be defined by associative spreading across many common associates. Here, we addressed developmental effects of associative and semantic priming. Thus, w...

The paper reviews the kinds of representation of syntagmatic grammatical relations typically empl~'ed in grammar models used in computational linguistics. Exemplars of dependencyonly, constituency-only and hybrid constituencydependency approaches will be considered. In a move away fi'om the much discussed question 'Constituency or dependency?', the purpose of the paper is to ask more radically:...

Conventional dictionaries, albeit they often comprise an impressive amount o f para­ digmatic information on various aspects o f linguistic description, usually pay only little attention to the representation o f syntagmatic information. Admittedly, apart hrom spelling conventions and rules o f inflectional agreement, the co-occurrence o f indivi­ dual lexical items will not normally change the...

This paper presents an account of the interpretation of unmarked verb forms in which the entries of unmarked forms are uniformly unspecified for agreement features. The entries of impersonal verbs directly sanction agreement-neutral syntagmatic structures. However, the entries of unmarked personal verbs sanction structures with negative agreement values, as a consequence of an inflectional bloc...

The relationship of the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift to recall was examined in college-aged adults and young children. Forced experience (priming) with taxonomic or functional modes of categorization produced modest effects on children's recall and powerful effects on their style of recall, as measured by taxonomic and functional intrusions. No comparable effects were observed with adults, de...

The present PET study investigates the role of prosodic clues (pitch, pause) in processing the oral speech syntactic structure. The stimuli used were syntactically simple sentences and sentences with different syntagmatic segmentation. They were presented binaurally to twelve right-handed, musically untrained native Russian speakers. One condition reflected automatic perceptual processing, the ...

This paper designs a novel lexical hub to disambiguate word sense, using both syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of words. It only employs the semantic network of WordNet to calculate word similarity, and the Edinburgh Association Thesaurus (EAT) to transform contextual space for computing syntagmatic and other domain relations with the target word. Without any back-off policy the result on...