Context Effects in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: The Location of Prepositional Phrase Attachment [PDF]
Two experiments are reported to test whether the location of prepositional phrase attachment can be influenced by syntactic and contextual factors.
FerstI, Evelyn C.
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Cross-structural priming prepositional phrase attachment primes relative clause attachment
In this paper we show that attachment height (high vs. low attachment) of a modifier to a complex noun phrase (CNP; e.g., “the servant of the actress”), can be primed between dissimilar syntactic structures.
Maaike Loncke +5 more
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Revisiting the information structure of English prepositional phrases in predication [PDF]
The theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is centred on communicative dynamism and its distribution among communicative units, i.e. individual sentence elements (Firbas, 1996; 1999). When a context-dependent subject is further specified by more
Irena Headlandová Kalischová +1 more
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Non-deterministic Prepositional phrase Attachment [PDF]
Existing models of sentence comprehension typically adopt a deterministic approach that decides on the correct parse of a sentence. In essence, these models consist of algorithms that statically capture a priori rules for disambiguation and seldom take ...
Corriveau, Jean-Pierre
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation using
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Claus W. Spitzer
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Development of a Prepositional Phrase Machine Translation System
The study reported in this paper considered English to Yorùbá machine translation system for prepositional phrase. The prepositional phrase machine translation system is a subset of English to Yorùbá machine translation (EYMT) system. There are issues to
Safiriyu Eludiora, Ridwan Atolagbe
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Relative constructions in Portuguese varieties: a functional-discursive interpretation
This work examines relative constructions in Portuguese varieties based on the principle that Portuguese has a set of relativization strategies that are recognized in typological linguistics as constructions that define related groups of languages. It is
Roberto Gomes Camacho
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The analysis of prepositional phrase in the novel The Perfect Nany written by Leila Slimani [PDF]
ENGLISH Prepositional Phrase is the part of preposition and absolutely it is the part of grammar too. It has rules and deregulations that must be obeyed.
Rahmanita, Astri Thea
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A Study on the Ability of the Second Year Students of the English Study Program of Universitas Riau in Choosing the Correct Prepositional Phrases for Adverb Phrase [PDF]
The objective of this descriptive research was to describe the students' ability in choosing the correct prepositional phrases for adverb phrase. The population of this research was the second year students of the English Study Program of Universitas ...
Nababan, H. M. (H) +2 more
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The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment
Paola Merlo, Eva Esteve Ferrer
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