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Yang, Charles; Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2017
We study the learnability problem concerning the dative alternations in English (Baker, 1979; Pinker, 1989). We consider how first language learners productively apply the double-object and to-dative constructions ("give the book to library"/"give the library the book"), while excluding negative exceptions ("donate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Databases, Linguistic Input
Cieslicka, Anna B. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Most current idiom processing models acknowledge, after Gernsbacher and Robertson (1999) that deriving an idiomatic meaning entails suppression of contextually inappropriate, literal meanings of idiom constituent words. While embedding idioms in the rich disambiguating context can promote earlier suppression of incompatible literal meanings,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Figurative Language, Polish, Native Language

Pickering, Martin; Barry, Guy – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
Provides evidence that sentence processing does not make use of grammatical theories with empty categories. A linguistic account is provided of unbounded dependencies that do not use empty categories and can serve as the basis of a processing model. It is concluded that empty categories are not psychologically real. (28 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models

Kunze, Juergen – Linguistics, 1977
The components of a dependency grammar are described, and some procedures for automatic sentence analysis are given. (HP)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Models

Michaelis, Laura A.; Lambrecht, Knud – Language, 1996
Using a particular sentence type--an exclamative construction referred to as "Nominal Extraposition" (NE)--this article outlines a formal model in which grammatical description includes the description of use conditions on form-meaning pairs. The article suggests that the relationship between NE and like exclamatives can be represented in an…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory

MacWhinney, B.; Bates, E. – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Thirteen papers in this book illustrate MacWhinney and Bates's Competition Model (CM), with a focus on cross-linguistic processing. Studies in this volume show that (1) the CM is useful in predicting certain gross cross-linguistic differences of comprehension, particularly in relation to actor assignment and (2) children's processing strategies…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
Tyhurst, James J. – 1989
Many syntactic and semantic studies have focused on the distribution of closed-class lexical noun phrases (NPs) such as "her, herself, and each other." Recent work has demonstrated that many other NPs are also referentially dependent. A model-theoretic semantic analysis of a number of such referentially dependent NPs is presented. These…
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Models, Nouns

O'Grady, William – Second Language Research, 1996
Explores the prospects for a "general nativist" theory of first- and second-language acquisition (SLA), outlines a modular acquisition device not including Universal Grammar, and considers the role of universal grammar in the emergence of a first language (L1). (50 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Models, Second Language Learning
Goyvaerts, D. L. – Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Frazier, Lyn; Fodor, Janet Dean – Cognition, 1978
The human sentence parsing device assigns phrase structure to sentences in two steps. The first stage parser assigns lexical and phrasal nodes to substrings of words. The second stage parser then adds higher nodes to link these phrasal packages together into a complete phrase marker. This model is compared with others. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models, Phrase Structure

Droste, F. G. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diagrams, Linguistic Theory, Logic
Benjamin, Robert L. – 1981
The position taken in this paper is that the sentence adverb should be viewed not as an occurrence within a sentence but as a kind of illocutionary force marker of a speech art. Three points are argued in the paper: (1) that current linguistic analyses of sentence adverbs are inadequate even to the purposes of the analysts; (2) that treating…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Flagg, Paul W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Describes an experiment to test two assumptions concerning what is stored in the memory with regard to sentence structure: (1) that the linear effect observed is based on a tally model rather than on an integrationist mechanism; (2) that this linear effect is not uniquely the result of a mechanism operating at comprehension. (CLK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Huttar, George L. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, English, Linguistic Theory
Admoni, W. G. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory