A distribution of anaphoric elements roughly like that found in English occurs in languages around the world: There are certain lexical items that occur only with antecedents which ccommand them and which are located in the same local domain (roughly, clause) as the anaphoric elements. In contrast, other anaphoric elements are unable to take c-commanding antecedents within the local domain. The...

This study explores the grammatical representations employed by preschoolers during online sentence processing. Tomasello and colleagues have argued that young children, unlike adults, are limited to structural representations organized around individual lexical items (Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (2000) 156). Evidence for broader syntactic representations in adults comes from, among other th...

We investigated the electrophysiological correlates of the processing of subject's own name (SON) in comparison to familiar and unfamiliar names in the Chinese language. The three types of names were the deviants in an oddball paradigm among lexical and non-lexical phrases. All items consisted of three characters, and the non-lexical items were the targets. All names caused a clear N170 compone...

A b s t r a c t In this paper we discuss the results of experiments which use a context, essentially an ordered set of lexical items, as the seed from which to build a network representing statistically important relationships among lexical items in some corpus. A metric is then applied to the nodes in the network in order to discover those pairs of items related by high indices of similarity. ...

The problem of machine translation can be viewed as consisting of two phases: (a) lexical choice phase where appropriate target language lexical items (words or phrases) are chosen for each source language lexical item and (b) reordering phase where the chosen target language lexical items are reordered to produce a meaningful target language string. In earlier work we have shown that nite-stat...

The lexical items that can serve as discourse markers (DMs) are often multi-functional. Like and well, in particular, play numerous other roles apart from DMs: for instance, the first one can also be a verb and the second one an adverb. The goal of the present study is the identification, on transcripts of multi-party dialogues, of the occurrences of like and well that play a discourse or pragm...

This paper considers the nature of lexical knowledge and its role in language and information processing. The lexicon is the central component of language and plays a pivotal role in current linguistic theory [3, 4] and, increasingly, in natural language processing systems [5-7]. The lexicon embodies information about the lexical items of the language and serves as the foundation for morphologi...

The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded  longitudinally for nearly seven  months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is mad...

The distal prosodic patterning established at the beginning of an utterance has been shown to influence downstream word segmentation and lexical access. In this study, we investigated whether distal prosody also affects word learning in a novel (artificial) language. Listeners were exposed to syllable sequences in which the embedded words were either congruent or incongruent with the distal pro...