In syntactic analysis of a long sentence, it is difficult to determine the dependency among clauses. To handle such syntactic ambiguity among clauses, this paper proposes a machine learning-based determination method of clause-dependency. We extract various features from clauses, and experiment using SVM machine learning algorithm. Our experimental results showed that the proposed SVM-based met...

This study presents a view of diachronic change in language, according to which one of the fundamental factors motivating syntactic change is to be found in the conflicting interaction of principles determining the language organization. Specifically, it will be argued that principles of structural nature and principles of perceptual nature are in conflict in languages of the SOV type, because ...

This paper is concerned with two related issues in sentence processing--one methodological and one theoretical. Methodologically, it provides an unconfounded test of the ability of the cross-modal lexical priming task, when used appropriately, to provide detailed evidence about the time-course of antecedent reactivation during sentence processing. Theoretically, it provides a study of the natur...

Recent work on the nature of syntactic ambiguity has focused on the properties of lexical items that may be relevant to resolving such ambiguities. A variety of lexical properties have been proposed as having significant influence on syntactic ambiguity resolution. Ranging from referential properties (Ni, Crain, & Shankweiler 1996), in the context of the Referential Model of language processing...

Tworating studies demonstrate that English speakers willingly produce reduced relatives with internal cause verbs (e.g., Whisky fermented in oak barrels can have a woody taste), and judge their acceptability based on factors known to influence ambiguity resolution, rather than on the internal/external cause distinction. Regression analyses demonstrate that frequency of passive usage predicts re...

A reduced relative—main clause ambiguity occurs in sentences that begin with reduced relative clauses, as in The hangman executed by the government was convicted of treason. This ambiguity has often been the focus of research designed to investigate the processes by which syntactic structures are built during sentence comprehension. Reading time differences between more difficult and less diffi...

Preference logic grammars (PLGs) are introduced in this paper as a declarative means of resolving ambiguity in logic grammars. Preference logic grammars can be thought as extensions of deenite clause grammars (DCGs) and deenite-clause translation grammars (DCTGs). Just as DCGs and DCTGs can be directly translated into logic programs, PLGs can be translated into preference logic programs (PLPs),...

0 Introduction This paper represents the continutation of research into the identiication of the relationship between the head of a relative clause and the clause body, for Japanese. Unlike many languages, a `trace' of the gap associated with the head of a gapping relative clause is not lexically marked in Japanese, and gapping and non-gapping clauses are not explicitly distinguished. Our curre...

Many languages of lowland South America mark remoteness distinctions in their TAM systems. In Amahuaca (Panoan; Peru) multiple are made the past and future. I argue that temporal morphemes (TRMs) can be understood as indications event time relative to utterance matrix environments. dependent clauses, however, picture is more complicated. By exploring adjunct switch-reference show TRMs clauses d...