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Phrase
About: Phrase is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12580 publications have been published within this topic receiving 317823 citations. The topic is also known as: syntagma & phrases.
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TL;DR: This article examined the relation between syntactic and morpho-syntactic tasks (repetition, judgment, correction, localization, explanation, replication and identification) and several indicators of recoding and comprehension in reading.
Abstract: This aim of this paper is to analyse the links between syntactic awareness and reading, in its recoding and comprehension aspects, in pre-adolescent readers. The study, conducted with 83 sixth grade pupils, examined the relation between (1) seven syntactic and morpho-syntactic tasks (repetition, judgment, correction, localization, explanation, replication and identification) and (2) several indicators of recoding and comprehension in reading. Regression analyses revealed differential contributions as a function of syntactic task, type of agrammaticality, and the aspect of reading tested, after we had controlled for the influence of reasoning, memory, and linguistic competences. Contributions resulting from the morpho-syntactic tasks were observed more frequently for recoding, whereas those involving the inversion of word or phrase orders operated more frequently as indicators of reading comprehension. The more explicit the syntactic awareness tasks, the more frequent and greater their contribution to reading performances. Comparisons of syntactic performances as a function of three levels of reading comprehension (good, average, poor) revealed a syntactic deficit in the poor comprehenders. The poor comprehenders exhibited a deficit in the majority of the syntactic tasks. The average comprehenders achieved lower performances than the good comprehenders in the tasks assessing explicit knowledge of syntax but not in those assessing implicit knowledge.
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15 Jul 2010TL;DR: The SemEval-2010 Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution task, where given an English target word in context, participating systems had to find an alternative substitute phrase in Spanish, is described.
Abstract: In this paper we describe the SemEval-2010 Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution task, where given an English target word in context, participating systems had to find an alternative substitute word or phrase in Spanish. The task is based on the English Lexical Substitution task run at SemEval-2007. In this paper we provide background and motivation for the task, we describe the data annotation process and the scoring system, and present the results of the participating systems.
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TL;DR: It is shown that, within a phase-based syntax, Voice must be a phase rather than v, but that both functional heads must exist, and offers a new explanation for the incompatibility of passive and British English do, as well as an account of why some languages, like English, lack impersonal passives while others, such as Dutch, allow them.
Abstract: This paper examines an anaphoric construction, British English do, and locates it within the dichotomy in the ellipsis literature between deleted phrases and null pro-forms, concluding that the choice is a false one, in that pro-forms involve deletion as well; the question, then, is how to account for the differential permeability to dependencies that require external licensing of the various deleted constituents. British English do has some characteristics of a fully deleted phrase, and some of a pro-form. The paper proposes that deletion is involved in this construction, but of a smaller constituent than can host wh-movement or long quantifier-raising. Therefore, deletion must occur within the syntax, in order to bleed syntactic processes. It is further shown that, within a phase-based syntax, Voice must be a phase rather than v, but that both functional heads must exist, and offers a new explanation for the incompatibility of passive and British English do, as well as an account of why some languages, like English, lack impersonal passives, while others, such as Dutch, allow them.
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02 Aug 2004TL;DR: In this article, a system that displays frequently used or useful message phrases in a pop-up window from which the user may select a desired phrase to be inserted into the message stream.
Abstract: Rapid instant messaging input (14) is enabled through a system that displays (12) frequently used or useful message phrases in a pop-up window from which the user may select a desired phrase to be inserted into the message stream. The system allows multiple phrase lists (24) to be utilized and individual phrase messages are tagged with context information, allowing them to be selectively retrieved to provide only the most useful messages for a given context or scenario. The system automatically generates phrase lists (24) by scanning the message stream data within instant messaging log files and the scanned information is then processed to select phrases for inclusion in the phrase list based on predefined heuristics (20).
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that syntactic and semantic contribution to phrasal formation can be already differentiated at a very basic level, with each of these two processes comprising non-overlapping areas on the cerebral cortex.
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