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Abel, Alyson D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Children must acquire multiple language dimensions to ultimately achieve adult levels of language competence. Two such language dimensions, finiteness marking and the verb lexicon, are considered areas of weakness in specific language impairment (SLI). Given these weaknesses, the question arises of whether these two dimensions are related in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Verbs, Familiarity
Shu, Chih-hsiang – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation offers a novel account of the syntax of sentence adverbs. The need for a new account is clear from the lack of descriptive coverage and theoretical coherence in current work on adverbial syntax. Descriptively, the majority of work has so far neglected the fact that sentence adverbs behave syntactically like typical focusing…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
Murugesan, Arthi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Natural language poses several challenges to developing computational systems for modeling it. Natural language is not a precise problem but is rather ridden with a number of uncertainties in the form of either alternate words or interpretations. Furthermore, natural language is a generative system where the problem size is potentially infinite.…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Sentences, Semantics, Syntax