Showing papers on "Head (linguistics) published in 1984"

Lexical decision in sentences: Effects of syntactic structure

Abstract: A lexical decision paradigm was used to examine syntactic influence on word recognition in sentences. Initial fragments of sentences were presented visually (CRT display) one word at a time (at reading speeds), from left to right. The string terminated with the appearance of a lexical decision target. The grammatical structure of the incomplete sentence affected lexical decision reaction time (RT). In Experiment 1, modal verb contexts followed by main verb targets and preposition contexts followed by noun targets produced lower RTs than did the opposite pairings (i.e., modal/noun and preposition/verb). In Experiment 2, transitive verb contexts followed by noun targets and subject noun phrase contexts followed by verb targets yielded lower RTs than did the opposite pairings. Similar contrasts for adjective targets did not yield comparable effects in Experiment 2, but did when the adjective was the head of a predictable phrase (Experiment 4). In Experiment 3, noun targets yielded lower RTs than did verb targets after contexts of a transitive verb followed by a prepositional phrase. An account of these effects is offered in terms of parsing constraints on phrasal categories.

De prospectiva pingendi

Abstract: The book provides the critical edition of the vernacular version of De prospective pingendi, the treatise on the perspective written by Piero della Francesca (about 1412-1492). It is based on the collation of the four extant manuscripts, whose analysis shows that the autograph codex ms. Parm. 1576 (Biblioteca Palatina, Parma) carries the latter version of the text. The edition is completed by a glossary and by the photographs of the figures drawn by Piero in the same manuscript. De prospectiva pingendi Piero della Francesca

The vertebrate head-segmented or a single morphogenetic structure?

Abstract: A brief historical review of the discussion and evidence for a segmented head is given. The idea that the head is made up of a number of segments is accepted, and the number of segments is identified as five and one-half. The half is due to the fact that the sclerotomie segments alternate with myotomic ones. If the head is segmented, then structures can be assigned to segments. Several figures and a table summarize these assignments. A segmented head is viewed as part of the hypothesis that the vertebrate arose from a cephalochordate-like ancestor lacking a complex pharynx and having a better developed head.

Lexical Relatedness, Head of a Word, and the Misanalysis of Latin

Abstract: Two opposing schools of thought concerning divisions within the realm of morphology can be discerned in the general linguistic and morphological literature. ·One is represented by the work of a good many structuralist (American and European) scholars and is characterized in part by a recognition of a difference between inflectional morphology and derivatlonal morphology. A classic work such as Bloomfield (1933) as well as more recent works such as Andersoj (1982) or Zwicky & Pullum (1983) are representative of this tradition. The second 'tradition' ( to use the term loosely, to be sure), represented by the work of some (but not all, witness Anderson and Pullum & Zwicky as above) followers of certain camps within the generative transformational school of linguistics, is characterized in part by an opposing view concerning derivational and inflectional mo~phology; in particular, no distinction is recognized between two such ,spects of morphology. A representative work in this camp is Halle (1973),

Compacting system of proper noun dictionary

Abstract: PURPOSE:To prevent a capacity from becoming massive by replacing a high frequency Chinese character with a special code expression of only one byte, in a proper noun dictionary used for a Japanese language information processing device. CONSTITUTION:An appearance frequency of a Chinese character for constituting each proper noun in a collection of some proper noun is checked, and each separate Chinese character ''Ta''-''Shima'' used in more than some frequency is made to correspond to a special code whose data length is short, of a one byte code from a two byte code of an original JISC-6226. Also, the most significant bit MSB of one byte is used as an identifier for discriminating from an original Chinese character code except a high frequency Chinese character, and the head of one byte codes 8, 10 is always set to ''1''. In this way, a data of a Chinese character part is made compact by replacing a Chinese character code of a high frequency Chinese character.