This paper describes a nealy unsupervised learning method for converting or paraphrasing Japanese noun phrases to verb phrases without changing their semantic contents. We focus on the paraphrasing of the noun phrases in the form of “A no B” where “A” and “B” are noun phrases and “no” is a postposition. Noun phrases in this form can express various relationships between “A” and “B.” In the past...

This study investigated a treatment for sentence production impairment in an individual with aphasia. Treatment was administered in two modules: the first involved training single verb naming, the second involved training sentence production. The sentence production treatment incorporated the principles of grammatical frame therapy (Mitchum & Berndt, 1994) and mapping therapy (Schwartz, Saffran...

This paper deals with word order in complex verb phrases consisting of auxiliaries and infinitive complements heritage Polish. In Polish, normally follow auxiliaries, but discontinuous structures occur if required by the information structure. We investigate occurrence evaluation adjacent patterns relation to (a) chronological age at testing (b) onset acquisition majority language, German. Ther...

Mandarin Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language, has distinct syntactic and morphological structures in comparison to IndoEuropean languages. This study concerns Chinese infants’ initial derivation of grammatical categories. We examined the prosodic properties of nouns and verbs of the maternal input speech. Non-word disyllabic noun-verb homophones were created and embedded in frequent carrier phrase...

In the Gender and Work project (GaW), historians are building a database with information on what men and women did for a living in the Early Modern Swedish society, i.e. approximately 1550–1800 [1]. This information is currently extracted by researchers manually going through large volumes of court records and church documents, searching for relevant text passages describing working activities...

This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties cohesion errors in written narratives eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote narrative text response picture prompt. young learners’ texts were examined identify their four categories: lexical,...