We suggest here a Growing Trees approach for the description of acquisition various syntactic structures in Hebrew, based on main results reported Friedmann and Reznick (this volume) our own research corpus natural productions. The heart account is that stages follow geometry tree, along lines cartographic analysis clause, with early corresponding to small portions adult which keeps growing gro...

In this paper, we study dialogue as a game, but not only in the sense in which there would exist winning strategies and a priori rules. Dialogue is not governed by game rules like for chess or other games, since even if we start from a priori rules, it is always possible to play with them, provided that some invariant properties are preserved. An important discovery of Ludics is that such prope...

In this article, I will present partial results of three experiments that deal with the second language (L2) acquisition of the same phenomenon: Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) in Spanish and Bulgarian by native English speakers. This is the phenomenon where an object that is previously mentioned in the discourse (a Topic) moves to the beginning of the sentence, and is doubled by a clitic agreei...

Sentence and text comprehension is known to be difficult for orally-trained individuals with hearing impairment. This study explored the comprehension of several syntactic structures that are especially difficult for them, and may lead to considerable comprehension difficulties. Ten structures derived by Wh-movement were tested, some of them for the first time in hearing-impairment: 5 types of ...

This paper studies neural processes of sentence comprehension, focusing on a specific syntactic operation-syntactic movement. We describe two fMRI experiments that manipulate this particular syntactic component. The sentences in each of the experiments are different, yet the structural contrast in both is syntactically identical, comparing movement and no-movement sentences. Two distinct Hebrew...

Long-Distance Scrambling is a word-order phenomenon which is “doubly unbounded” in that (i) more than one element can move, and (ii) movement can be unbounded. In (Becker et al., 1991), we argue that scrambling is beyond TAG by assuming that elementary trees express a complete predicate-argument structure. In (Becker et al., 1992), we show that no formalism in the class LCFRS (which includes TA...

This paper investigates the use of multi-agent systems (MAS) for natural language processing (NLP). We have investigated two approaches for distributing linguistic knowledge among agents which interact in order to interpret a sentence: (1) a lexical-structural distribution approach; and (2) a cognitive-linguistic distribution approach. In order to test both approaches, we have developed two sys...

We propose a typed call-by-name λ-calculus with shift, reset and strict functions and describe its linguistic applications, improving on the previous continuation-based analyses of quantification, binding, raised and in-situ wh-questions, binding in wh-questions, and superiority. The evaluation order is not fixed left-to-right: rather, it is determined by the demand for values exerted by reset ...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in [XTAG-Group,1995]. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism developed in [ Joshi et al., 1975], which has been extended to include lexicalization ([Sc...

A variety of accounts of this paradigm have been offered in the literature. We mention Bresnan's (1972) Fixed Subject Constraint and the *that -trace filter of Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) and subsequent work in the GB tradition. These two accounts share the view that the explanation of the oddity of (3) lies in prohibiting an element of a certain sort -namely, the complementizer that -from precedin...