What mechanisms underlie children's language production? Structural priming--the repetition of sentence structure across utterances--is an important measure of the developing production system. We propose its mechanism in children is the same as may underlie analogical reasoning: structure-mapping. Under this view, structural priming is the result of making an analogy between utterances, such t...

Objectives: Word definitional skills (WDSs) were classified according to the quality of both semantic content and syntactic form. The aim of the present study was to investigate the syntactic development in WDSs in typically developing school- age children. Methods: In this cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study,  150 of typically developing school-age children participated by...

We present a case study on the role of syntactic structures towards resolving the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task. Although various approaches have been proposed, the research of using syntactic information to determine the semantic similarity is a relatively under-researched area. At the level of syntactic structure, it is not clear how significant the syntactic structure contributes to...

This study aims to analyze the sentence structures of fairy tales. It was designed with a descriptive qualitative research Aesop’s tales entitled The Lion and Mouse hare Tortoise as data source by applying method rewriting rules in tree diagram analysis syntactical theory, called PSG (Phrase-Structure Grammar). took 26 which 13 sentences were taken directly from other Hare Tortoise. focused o...