An eye tracking experiment was conducted in order to investigate the role of verb information in resolving structural ambiguity during sentence comprehension. Reading time was measured on sentences containing temporarily ambiguous noun phrases (e.g. "The athlete revealed the problem") that were continued as tensed sentence (S) complements or noun phrase (NP) complements. Ambiguous noun phrases ...

This study investigated the long-term effectiveness of explicit versus implicit instruction in a classroom setting. The participants were 114 Dutch secondary school students learning English as an L2; control group received and intervention meaning-based context for two academic years. Instructional effects measured via timed writing task. products groups compared terms holistic quality, comple...

• Cue-based retrieval cannot explain encoding interference in sentence processing. An extension to cue-based can do so, and it makes reading time predictions. A self-organization-based model diverging Two self-paced experiments provide support for self-organization. According theories of comprehension, establishing the syntactic dependency between a verb grammatical subject is susceptible from ...

This paper investigates factors that can be used in discourse analysis, specifically, cohesive devices. The paper shows that cohesive devices such as cue phrases can provide information about the linkages inside a text. We propose three types of cue phrases (the ordinary cue phrases, noun-phrase cues, and verb-phrase cues). An algorithm to compute rhetorical relations between two elementary dis...

Research on early word learning reveals that verbs present a unique challenge. While English-acquiring 24-month-olds can learn novel verbs and extend them to new scenes, they perform better in rich linguistic contexts (when novel verbs appear with lexicalized noun phrases naming the event participants) than in sparser linguistic contexts (Arunachalam & Waxman 2011). However, in languages like K...

Mitchell (1987) conducted a self-paced reading experiment that showed that people experienced difficulty reading a noun phrase when it immediately followed an intransitive verb. From this, he argued for a two-stage theory of parsing, in which verb subcategorization information is initially ignored. In response, Adams, Clifton, and Mitchell (1998) found no evidence to support this claim in an ey...

Abstract In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix - r derives passive from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well anticausative verbs nominal adjectival roots. Second, focus on five media tantum i.e., forms synchronically carry have no counterpart without . Unlike most other these are labile, they can occur in syntactically constructions ...

Türkçenin söz varlığını varlık, nesne ve hareketleri karşılayan kök durumundaki türemiş sözcüklerle atasözü, birleşik sözcük, deyim, ikileme, kalıp sözler gibi kalıplaşmış dil birimleri meydana getirmektedir. Türkçede yeni kavramları adlandırmak için ortaya çıkan sözcük ihtiyacı, öncelikle türetme yoluyla karşılanır. Başlangıçtaki söylenme nedenleri unutularak zamanla toplumdaki herkesçe benims...