scholarly journals The effect of lexical status on prosodic processing in infants learning a fixed stress language

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anett Ragó ◽  
Zsuzsanna Varga ◽  
Linda Garami ◽  
Ferenc Honbolygó ◽  
Valéria Csépe
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna A. Morris ◽  
James Porter ◽  
Jonathan Grainger ◽  
Phillip J. Holcomb

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afsaneh Fazly ◽  
Paul Cook ◽  
Suzanne Stevenson

Idiomatic expressions are plentiful in everyday language, yet they remain mysterious, as it is not clear exactly how people learn and understand them. They are of special interest to linguists, psycholinguists, and lexicographers, mainly because of their syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies as well as their unclear lexical status. Despite a great deal of research on the properties of idioms in the linguistics literature, there is not much agreement on which properties are characteristic of these expressions. Because of their peculiarities, idiomatic expressions have mostly been overlooked by researchers in computational linguistics. In this article, we look into the usefulness of some of the identified linguistic properties of idioms for their automatic recognition. Specifically, we develop statistical measures that each model a specific property of idiomatic expressions by looking at their actual usage patterns in text. We use these statistical measures in a type-based classification task where we automatically separate idiomatic expressions (expressions with a possible idiomatic interpretation) from similar-on-the-surface literal phrases (for which no idiomatic interpretation is possible). In addition, we use some of the measures in a token identification task where we distinguish idiomatic and literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions in context.


1984 ◽  
Vol 76 (S1) ◽  
pp. S89-S89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne L Miller ◽  
Emily R. Dexter ◽  
Kimberly A. Pickard

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumitaka Homae ◽  
Hama Watanabe ◽  
Tamami Nakano ◽  
Gentaro Taga

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIE L. METSALA ◽  
GINA M. CHISHOLM

ABSTRACTThis study examined effects of lexical status and neighborhood density of constituent syllables on children's nonword repetition and interactions with nonword length. Lexical status of the target syllable impacted repetition accuracy for the longest nonwords. In addition, children made more errors that changed a nonword syllable to a word syllable than the reverse. Syllables from dense versus sparse neighborhoods were repeated more accurately in three- and four-syllable nonwords, but there was no effect of density for two-syllable nonwords. The effect of neighborhood density was greater for a low versus high vocabulary group. Finally, children's error responses were from more dense neighborhoods than the target syllables. The results are congruent with models of nonword repetition that emphasize the influence of long-term lexical knowledge on children's performance.


Revue Romane ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Silvia Adler

This article pursues a series of studies on French expressions commonly called “prepositional locutions” whose dual goal is, first, the treatment of their lexical status and, second, the possibilities of anaphorisation by a simple suppression of their complement, operation often attributed to the procedure of ellipsis. These studies have concentrated each on the analysis of a specific semantic class of prepositional locutions: spatial, temporal and notional (more precisely, final, causal and consecutive) expressions (cf. Adler, 2006, to appear a, b). The present paper constitutes an additional stage in the puzzle already rather advanced of the analysis of the prepositional locutions, and covers other semantic subclasses: concession, opposition, addition and destination.


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