Processing empty categories in a second language: When naturalistic exposure fills the (intermediate) gap [PDF]
, 2013 An ongoing debate on second language (L2) processing revolves around whether or not L2 learners process syntactic information similarly to monolinguals (L1), and what factors lead to a native-like processing. According to the Shallow Structure Hypothesis
Marinis, Theo +2 more
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Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2023 A long-standing debate in the sentence processing literature concerns the time course of syntactic and semantic information processing in online sentence comprehension.
Daniela Mertzen +4 more
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The role of semantic and syntactic features in dependency interference effects [PDF]
, 2022 Tollan, RebeccaThe processing of long-distance dependencies has been one of the primary means of investigating the linguistic components involved in working memory mechanisms behind the maintenance of wh fillers and retrieval of the stored filler at the ...
Yoo, Myung Hye
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Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2004 We study the Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words in sentences. The average distance is significantly small and is a very slowly growing function of sentence length. We consider two nonexcluding hypotheses: (a) the average distance is minimized and (b) the average distance is constrained.
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The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping during reading [PDF]
, 2014 In a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article the even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position.
Angele, Bernhard +7 more
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Distancing the Components of Attributive Phrases in Artistic Speech
Научный диалог, 2020 The problem of distancing the components of attributive phrases as a syntactic and stylistic phenomenon in artistic speech is considered. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the issue of preserving the syntactic form of the phrase while ...
K. Ya. Seagal
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Language distance and non-native syntactic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials [PDF]
, 2010 In this study, we explore native and non-native syntactic processing, paying special attention to the language distance factor. To this end, we compared how native speakers of Basque and highly proficient non-native speakers of Basque who are native ...
EVA GUTIÉRREZ +3 more
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Large-scale induction and evaluation of lexical resources from the Penn-II treebank [PDF]
, 2004 In this paper we present a methodology for extracting subcategorisation frames based on an automatic LFG f-structure annotation algorithm for the Penn-II Treebank. We extract abstract syntactic function-based subcategorisation frames (LFG semantic forms)
O'Donovan, Ruth +10 more
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Enhancing Low-Resource Languages Question Answering with Syntactic Graph [PDF]
, 2022 Multilingual pre-trained language models (PLMs) facilitate zero-shot cross-lingual transfer from rich-resource languages to low-resource languages in extractive question answering (QA) tasks.
Feng, ZhiYong +4 more
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A Corpus-Based Study of the Dependency Distance Differences in English Academic Writing
SAGE Open, 2023 Dependency distance has increasingly become a key measure of interest in cross-linguistic corpus studies from multiple perspectives. Based on a syntactically annotated corpus of 400 PhD dissertation abstracts written by native English (L1) and English as
Nan Gao, Qingshun He
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