Cognitive representations of musical structure have long been of interest to psychologists and musicians. This project addresses comprehension of and long-term memory for musical form, a debated topic in music cognition. We use three methods: a corpus of Billboard magazine’s top 10 songs for each of the last 20 years; a probabilistic grammar derived from this corpus; and an experiment testing p...

Information systems developers such as business process engineers use Conceptual Modeling to understand the information system’s application domain and to derive such a system’s requirements. For Conceptual Modeling an appropriate modeling grammar needs to be selected. Approaches have been identified to evaluate and select a modeling grammar. It is supposed that theorybased approaches contribut...

Abstract This article presents an analysis of the structure and use Finnish independent infinitives. Although typological studies have shown that syntactically non-finite constructions are widespread in many languages, understanding their semantic intersubjective motivation is still its early stages. The current paper aims to enrich by closely looking at free-standing infinitive spoken written ...

Three different ways of evaluating a Swedish grammar checker are presented and discussed in this article. The first evaluation concerns measuring the program's detection capacity on five text genres. The measures (precision and recall) are often used in evaluating grammar checkers. However, in order to test and improve the usability of grammar checking software, they need to be complemented wit...

Technical Report TALANA-RT-94-01, TALANA, Universite' Paris 7, 1994. Status of the XTAG System C. Doran, D. Egedi, B. A. Hockey, B. Srinivas Institute for Research in Cognitive Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228, USA fcdoran, egedi, beth, [email protected] Abstract XTAG is an ongoing project to develop a wide-coverage grammar for English, based on the Featur...

A formal linguistic model is proposed which simulates human neuro-cognitive behaviors in processing German sentences with and without unambiguous case markings. The grammar formalism is crucially based on syntactic underspecification as a key concept.

Cognitive linguistics gives the most inclusive, consistent description of how language is organized, used and learned to date. Cognitive linguistics contains a great number of concepts that are useful to second language learners.  If-clauses in English, on the other hand, remain intriguing for foreign language learners to struggle with, due to their intrinsic intricacies. EFL grammar books are ...

This volume appears as the next installment in the CSLI series of edited volumes on cognitive and functional linguistics, Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL). The name of the series reflects the theme of the first conference, held in 1994 at the University of California, San Diego, and the title of the first volume, edited by Adele Goldberg (1996). It is now also the name of the...