The complementary learning systems account of declarative memory suggests two distinct memory networks, a fast-mapping, episodic system involving the hippocampus, and a slower semantic memory system distributed across the neocortex in which new information is gradually integrated with existing representations. In this study, we investigated the extent to which these two networks are involved in...

Abstract The current study explores how multilingual speakers with three typologically different languages (satellite-framed, verb-framed and equipollent-framed) encode gauge event similarity in the domain of caused motion. Specifically, it addresses whether, to what extent, acquisition an L2-English L3-Japanese reconstructs lexicalization conceptualization patterns established L1-Cantonese whe...

We introduce a simple method to build Lexicalized Hidden Markov Models (L-HMMs) for improving the precision of part-of-speech tagging. This technique enriches the contextual Language Model taking into account a set of selected words empirically obtained. The evaluation was conducted with different lexicalization criteria on the Penn Treebank corpus using the TnT tagger. This lexicalization obta...

It is commonly accepted that the process of pidginization leads to a loss of inflectional morphology, but this loss is often not total. Lexifier inflections instead follow a cline of reduction: full retention – partial retention – partial lexicalization – full lexicalization – full loss. This article examines the retention of inflection in 29 languages that reflect a history of pidginization in...

Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques can be applied in generating virtual documents dynamically using information from a database (Dale et al, 1999). One of the applications of NLG techniques to generate documents dynamically is the web-based interactive virtual museum, VIGAN. NLG is used to generate the descriptions of the objects in a virtual museum dynamically based on the profile an...

English and Korean differ in how they lexicalize the components of motion events. English characteristically conflates Motion with Manner, Cause, or Deixis, and expresses Path separately. Korean, in contrast, conflates Motion with Path and elements of Figure and Ground in transitive clauses for caused Motion, but conflates motion with Deixis and spells out Path and Manner separately in intransi...

1.1 Introduction This paper proposes the lexicalization of context in HPSG. Instead of phrasal amalgamation of contextual information from a phrase's daughters , which is speciied by the Principle of Contextual Consistency of Pollard and Sag 1994, we propose lexical amalgamation of context from a word's arguments by means of lexical constraints. The Principle of Contextual Consistency is replac...

The objective of this work is to conduct a corpus-based diachronic investigation lexicalization patterns motion events as well attention manner in Arabic narrative writing. Motivated by the scarcity research on events, study aims identify main linguistic constructions used express novels and more importantly investigate whether shift salience has taken place last hundred years. draws Talmy’s fr...

We present an ILP model of concept-totext generation. Unlike pipeline architectures, our model jointly considers the choices in content selection, lexicalization, and aggregation to avoid greedy decisions and produce more compact texts.

This study turns to the pathway of change whereby an originally intransitive manner-of-speaking predicate (e.g. babble, whisper, shout) comes function in parenthetical clauses as a direct speech reporting predicate. On descriptive plane, paper presents detailed analysis recent developments affecting shriek Early and Late Modern English. The case presented here does not involve standardly assume...