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Metaphors for the Description of Acquisition Data: From Constituency "Trees" to Dependency "Frames."
Robinson, Peter J. – IRAL, 1990
Explains the differences between constituency and dependency theories for structural linguistics. Reasons are provided for why the former has been indirectly responsible for the neglect of lexical acquisition in language acquisition research and for proposing a notation based on dependency theory for describing learners' segmentation of initially…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Peer reviewedKent, Stuart; Pitt, Jeremy – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the relative merits of feature versus model based semantics for the interpretation of verb phrases in English, French, and German. The article concludes that the simplicity afforded by features is offset by the depth of analysis achieved with event models that are additionally able to support a sophisticated approach to machine…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
