In order to study problems of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) with morphosyntax, we investigated twenty high-functioning Greek-speaking children (mean age: 6;11) and twenty age- and language-matched typically developing children on environments that allow or forbid object clitics or their corresponding noun phrase. Children with ASD fell behind typically developing children in ...

The semantic interpretation of adverbs such as only, also, and even has been a central issue of alternative semantics for focus (Rooth 1985, 1996). Some focus adverbs, including only in English, set a limit to the range of alternative sets by their syntactic position and / or prosodic patterns. In the following example, the syntactic position of only affects the range of alternative sets (as in...

in this paper, we examine the treatment of persian relative clauses in role and reference grammar. rrg is a structural-functional theory which has studied the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in human language systems. the main objectives of this article, on the one hand, are to elucidate syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of farsi relative clauses, and on the other hand, to asse...

There is no consensus on how syntax and semantic/pragmatics should interact in natural language processing. This paper focuses on one issue concerning interaction: order of processing. Two approaches are compared empirically: an interleaved syntax-first approach, in which semantic interpretations is performed at intermediate points during parsing; and a semantics-first approach, in which semant...

Previous research has shown L1 attrition to be restricted to structures at the interfaces between syntax and pragmatics, but not to occur with syntactic properties that do not involve such interfaces ('Interface Hypothesis', Sorace and Filiaci in Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian. Second Lang Res 22: 339-368, 2006). The present study tested possible L1 attrition effects on ...

Spoken language (SL) system development is an increasingly interdisciplinary effort. Speech-to-speech system development, for example, involves speech engineers, software engineers, phoneticians, and a variety of computational linguistic subdisciplines from morphology, syntax and lexicology through semantics and pragmatics, each with their own historically motivated terminology. In our experien...

Deixis expressed by three definite articles is a well-known characteristic of the Pomak varieties, given the absence of grammaticalized definite markers in most Slavic languages. In this paper, we present a practically unknown use of deixis in Slavic languages, namely the use of deictic suffixes in the formation of temporal subordinate conjunctions in Pomak. The deictic suffixes in the temporal...

Local symmetry axis based schemes have been used for generic shape recognition as they lead to articulation insensitive representations. Despite their strengths, purely syntactic level of axial representations precludes the possibility of distinguishing a likely articulation from an unlikely one. In order to overcome this weakness, syntax should be combined with pragmatics and/or semantics. As ...