Much of the debate on rule-based vs. connectionist models in language acquisition has focussed on the English past tense. This paper investigates a new area, the acquisition of verb subcategorization. Verbs differ in how they express their arguments or subcategorize for them. For example, “She gave him a book.” is good, but “She donated him a book.” sounds odd. The paper describes a connectioni...

Usage-based approaches suggest that language acquisition is a function of the statistical properties of the input. We compare predictions from neural network models with results of two elicited-production experiments on verb inflection with children in the morphologically complex languages Polish and Finnish. Three-layer neural networks were trained to produce person/number-inflected present-te...

Discourses are linguistic structures above sentence level. Discourse is nothing but a coherent sequence of sentences. Discourse analysis is concerned with coherent processing of text segments larger than the sentence and this requires something more than just the interpretation of the individual sentences. A phenomenon that operates at discourse level includes cohesion. Text is cohesive if its ...

ERP (Event Related Potential) measurement using the violation paradigm of Japanese verb conjugation was conducted in order to investigate the mental and neural mechanisms involved in the processing of different conjugation patterns. A LAN-like component followed by a P600 was elicited for the anomaly of using a tense-bearing form with the negative ending, while only P600 was observed for the an...

This research proposes and evaluates a linguistically motivated approach to extracting temporal structure from text. Pairs of events in a verb-clause construction were considered, where the first event is a verb and the second event is the head of a clausal argument to that verb. All pairs of events in the TimeBank that participated in verbclause constructions were selected and annotated with t...

The increasing production of electronic (digital) texts (either on the Web or in other electronically available forms, such as digital libraries or archives) demands appropriate computer tools that can help human users in text manipulation and, additionally, in performing automatic processing of language resources. In the first place, a natural language processing (NLP) system needs to implemen...

Weblogs are a source of human activity knowledge comprising valuable information such as facts, opinions and personal experiences. In this paper, we propose a method for mining personal experiences from a large set of weblogs. We define experience as knowledge embedded in a collection of activities or events which an individual or group has actually undergone. Based on an observation that exper...

To explain processing differences between regular (e.g., start/started) and irregular (e.g., think/thought) word formation linguistic models posit either a single mechanism handling both morphological clusters or separate mechanisms for regular and irregular words. The purpose of the present study is to investigate how these processing differences map onto brain processes by assessing electroph...

Neuropsychological dissociations between regular and irregular past tense verb processing have been explained in two ways: (a) separate mechanisms of a rule-governed process for regular verbs and a lexical-associative process for irregular verbs; (b) a single system drawing on phonological and semantic knowledge. The latter account invokes phonological impairment as the basis of poorer performa...

The article analyzes the ways of predicate expressing in Act Book Zhytomyr Hrodsky government 1611. main source for study specified part a sentence was above-mentioned manuscript official business style beginning 17th century. It is act book that determined functioning mostly past tense forms, given record court cases about already committed crimes. method sampling analyzed material and techniq...