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The grammatical properties of mass nouns: An aphasia case study

open access: yesNeuropsychologia, 1997
A patient (F.A.) is described who, as a consequence of brain damage, shows an isolated deficit concerning the use, across a series of tasks, of the grammatical properties of mass/non-countable nouns. Her use of grammar is otherwise perfect. This behaviour dissociates from that of other patients who have severe grammatical difficulties, but do not show ...
Carlo Semenza   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Unveiling the properties of structured grammatical evolution

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2016
Structured grammatical evolution (SGE) is a new genotypic representation for grammatical evolution (GE). It comprises a hierarchical organization of the genes, where each locus is explicitly linked to a non-terminal of the grammar being used. This one-to-one correspondence ensures that the modification of a gene does not affect the derivation options ...
Nuno Lourenço   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Representation of grammatical properties of Italian verbs in the mental lexicon

Brain and Language, 2004
The present study focuses on the representation of verbs in the Italian mental lexicon and investigates some grammatical properties: inflectional class, mood, tense, and person. Two experiments based on free recall of single inflected forms are reported.
Alessandro Laudanna   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Grammatical Gender and Inferences About Biological Properties in German‐Speaking Children [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Science, 2012
AbstractIn German, nouns are assigned to one of the three gender classes. For most animal names, however, the assignment is independent of the referent’s biological sex. We examined whether German‐speaking children understand this independence of grammar from semantics or whether they assume that grammatical gender is mapped onto biological sex when ...
Henrik Saalbach   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1973
A concept-formation study was run using sets of sentences in eight different syntactic patterns as target categories. These were based on all possible combinations of voice (active or passive), mood (declarative or interrogative), and modality (affirmative or negative).
W J, Baker, G D, Prideaux, B L, Derwing
openaire   +2 more sources

The influence of semantic property and grammatical class on semantic selection

Brain and Language, 2013
Research to-date has not successfully demonstrated consistent neural distinctions for different types of ambiguity or explored the effect of grammatical class on semantic selection. We conducted a relatedness judgment task using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to further explore these topics.
Fan-pei Gloria, Yang   +5 more
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Property of grammatical meanings of adverbs in different system languages

ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
AbstractThe article examines the similarity of an adverb and a verb in their functional and semantic planes, characterized by the fact that the semantics of both the verb and the adverb is homogeneous, both denote signs and properties of the grammatical plan; the meaning of the verb depends on the meaning of the noun; meaning of an adverb from the ...
Patila Mendirmanovna Zheenalieva   +2 more
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[Psychometric properties of a grammatical comprehension test].

Revista de neurologia, 2008
The Grammatical Structures Comprehension Test (CEG) has been designed to evaluate the language alterations of both Spanish speaking children and adults (specific language impairment, aphasia, craneoencephalic traumatism...) in a rapid and simple way.To study the psychometric properties of the CEG (reliability, validity and discrimination rates).The ...
J, Muñoz-López   +3 more
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Word-Class Systems and Other Grammatical Properties

2023
Abstract This chapter explores how and to what degree languages have word classes and the parameters of variation. The two minor classes, adjectives and adpositions, can vary from very large lexical inventories to very small or even null ones, and have unique properties or be subsumed into the major classes, nouns and verbs.
openaire   +1 more source

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