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The meaning of classifier-noun phrases in Nung (Tai, Vietnam) [PDF]
Nung [ISO 639-3: nut] (a Tai language spoken in the northeast of Vietnam) has the Classifier-Noun (CL-N) construction. Nung CL-N phrases have the kind-referring and generic interpretations ((1) and (2)); they can also be used in contexts that are ...
Lam, Esther
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Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
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Discontinuous noun phrases in Vietnamese
Since Vietnamese is an isolating language, word order plays an important role in identifying the function of a particular word. Yet in some contexts word order may be flexible especially in the case of special information-structural settings ...
Duong Phu, Sarah
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The modifying compound word vanakooli (‘old-school’), frequently used in informal speech as a variant of the phrase vana kooli, exemplifies a linguistic phenomenon where certain noun-based phrases tend to form compound words.
Maire Raadik
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Use of natural language processing to extract uterine weight from pathology reports
Abstract Introduction For patients requiring hysterectomy, uterine weight is an important factor affecting surgical complexity and surgical outcomes. However, uterine weight is not readily available for analysis in administrative databases. In the present study, we use natural language processing to extract uterine weight from narrative pathology text.
Steven Habbous +3 more
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Semantic contrast ahead: contrast guides pre-planning in complex noun-phrase production
Whether or not pre-planning extends beyond the initial noun in a noun phrase depends, in part, on the phrase’s dependency structure. Dependency structure disambiguates, in many contexts, the noun phrase’s reference. In the present experiment (N = 64), we
Jens Roeser, Mark Torrance, Thom Baguley
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ABSTRACT Introduction Advanced Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to quickly appreciate the mental states of an interlocutor, depending on the conversational context, and to rapidly adjust one's own mental representations in response to verbal feedback from that interlocutor. Although these abilities continue to develop during adolescence, they
Clara Grégoire +2 more
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP [PDF]
The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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Usage of Chinese Noun Phrases [PDF]
This paper analyzes Chinese noun phrases by applying principles and methods that combine form and meaning, description and explanation, and structure and function. The research employs parallel transformation tests to systematically examine the syntactic
Aftab Azeem +2 more
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Induction of gender-like linguistic categories using noun-marking and blocking of learning trials
Traditional views propose that language is acquired and processed by specialized mechanisms and that language processing relies on well-defined symbolic representations that are manipulated according to rules of language.
Roman Taraban
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