The paper presents a language model that develops syntactic structure and uses it to extract meaningful information from the word history, thus enabling the use of long distance dependencies. The model assigns probability to every joint sequence of words–binary-parse-structure with headword

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this paper we want to show that XML format not only offers a good framework to annotate texts, but also provides a good for~ malism and tools in order to learn (syntactic) structures

Both natural languages and hereditary biology make use of one-dimensional encription. This calls for syntactic decyphering of the text and semantic understanding of the re-sulting structures. The recently published algorithm ADIOS (Automatic DIstillation of Structure) searches for syntactic

fonctions lexicales. This paper defends an apparently paradoxical point of view: The deep-syntactic structure is a fundamental representation of a sentence, but it should not be considered as an intermediate structure in the meaning-text correspondence. We argue that the correspondence from the semantic

This paper proposes an architecture for the mapping between syntax and phonology – in particular, that aspect of phonology that determines the linear ordering of words. We propose that linearization is restricted in two key ways. (1) the relative ordering of words is fixed at the end of each phase, or ‘‘Spell-out domain’’; and (2) ordering established in an earlier phase may not be revised or contradicted in a later phase. As a consequence, overt extraction out of a phase P may apply only if the result leaves unchanged the precedence relations established in P. We argue first that this architecture (‘‘cyclic linearization’’) gives us a means of understanding the reasons for successive-cyclic movement. We then turn our attention to more specific predictions of the proposal: in particular, the e¤ects of Holmberg’s

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ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof.dr. D.C. van den Boom ten overstaan van een door het college voor promoties ingestelde commissie, in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel der Universiteit op vrijdag 12 oktober 2007, te 10.00 uur

Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations and be resolved by different mechanisms. An alternative account is provided in which both types of ambiguity derive

In my previous Column (Plag 2008) I discussed the hypothesis that creoles originate as conventionalized interlanguages of an early developmental stage. For the sake of convenience I will refer to this specific hypothesis as the ‘interlanguage hypothesis’. While the idea that processes of second language acquisition (SLA) are a crucial