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Cuervo, Maria Cristina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
This experimental study on the acquisition of the double-object construction in Spanish as a second language (L2) by a group of first language (L1) English adults investigates the role of Universal Grammar (UG) and its interaction with L1 in two modules of grammar: morphosyntax and semantics. The double-object construction in Spanish differs from…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Universals
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Russell, Dale W. – 1993
An obstacle in Natural Language understanding is the existence of lexical gaps, i.e. words or word senses that are not in the lexicon of the system. This thesis describes the implementation of MURRAY, a learning mechanism which infers the properties of a new lexical item from its syntactical environment and infers its meaning based on context and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software Development, Context Effect