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Ito, Akinori, Chiori Hori, Masaharu Katoh, and Masaki Kohda. "Language modeling by stochastic dependency grammar for Japanese speech recognition." Systems and Computers in Japan 32, no. 12 (November 15, 2001): 10–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/scj.1073.

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SUZUKI, TAKAAKI. "A case-marking cue for filler–gap dependencies in children's relative clauses in Japanese." Journal of Child Language 38, no. 5 (February 9, 2011): 1084–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000910000553.

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ABSTRACTObject relative clauses have traditionally been thought to be more difficult than subject relative clauses in child English. However, recent studies as well as Japanese data show contradictory results. This study disclosed preschool children's superior performance on object relative clauses in Japanese; however, this dominance disappeared for the children who could use both the nominative and accusative case markers as cues for the comprehension of single-argument sentences. Assuming a filler–gap dependency for the relative clause formation, we suggest that there is no difference in the difficulty between subject and object relative clauses in the grammar of Japanese-speaking children.

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HODOŠČEK, Bor, and Kikuko NISHINA. "Japanese Learning Support Systems: Hinoki Project Report." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 2, no. 3 (December 20, 2012): 95–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.2.3.95-124.

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In this report, we introduce the Hinoki project, which set out to develop web-based Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems for Japanese language learners more than a decade ago. Utilizing Natural Language Processing technologies and other linguistic resources, the project has come to encompass three systems, two corpora and many other resources. Beginning with the reading assistance system Asunaro, we describe the construction of Asunaro's multilingual dictionary and it's dependency grammar-based approach to reading assistance. The second system, Natsume, is a writing assistance system that uses large-scale corpora to provide an easy to use collocation search feature that is interesting for it's inclusion of the concept of genre. The final system, Nutmeg, is an extension of Natsume and the Natane learner corpus. It provides automatic correction of learners errors in compositions by using Natsume for its large corpus and genre-aware collocation data and Natane for its data on learner errors.

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Hoji, Hajime. "Falsifiability and repeatability in generative grammar: a case study of anaphora and scope dependency in Japanese." Lingua 113, no. 4-6 (April 2003): 377–446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3841(02)00081-5.

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Ito, Akinori, Chiori Hori, Masaharu Katoh, and Masaki Kohda. "Erratum: Language modeling by stochastic dependency grammer for Japanese speech recognition." Systems and Computers in Japan 33, no. 3 (February 15, 2002): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/scj.1115.

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de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine, and Joakim Nivre. "Dependency Grammar." Annual Review of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (January 14, 2019): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011842.

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Dependency grammar is a descriptive and theoretical tradition in linguistics that can be traced back to antiquity. It has long been influential in the European linguistics tradition and has more recently become a mainstream approach to representing syntactic and semantic structure in natural language processing. In this review, we introduce the basic theoretical assumptions of dependency grammar and review some key aspects in which different dependency frameworks agree or disagree. We also discuss advantages and disadvantages of dependency representations and introduce Universal Dependencies, a framework for multilingual dependency-based morphosyntactic annotation that has been applied to more than 60 languages.

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Milward, David. "Dynamic dependency grammar." Linguistics and Philosophy 17, no. 6 (December 1994): 561–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00985319.

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Osborne,, Timothy, and Thomas Gross,. "Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar." Cognitive Linguistics 23, no. 1 (February 2012): 165–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2012-0006.

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AbstractThe paper demonstrates that dependency-based syntax is in a strong position to produce principled and economical accounts of the syntax of constructs. The difficulty that constituency-based syntax has in this regard is that very many constructs fail to qualify as constituents. The point is evident with the box diagrams and attribute value matrices (AVMs) that some construction grammars (CxGs) use to formalize constructions; these schemata often represent fragments rather than constituents. In dependency-based syntax in contrast, constructions are catenae, whereby a catena is a chain of words linked together by dependencies. The catena is a novel but well-defined unit of syntax associated with dependency grammar (DG). The constructs of CxGs are more amenable to analyses in terms of the catenae of dependency-based syntax than to analyses in terms of the constituents of constituency-based syntax.

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Kuhlmann, Marco. "Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Grammar." Computational Linguistics 39, no. 2 (June 2013): 355–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00125.

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Syntactic representations based on word-to-word dependencies have a long-standing tradition in descriptive linguistics, and receive considerable interest in many applications. Nevertheless, dependency syntax has remained something of an island from a formal point of view. Moreover, most formalisms available for dependency grammar are restricted to projective analyses, and thus not able to support natural accounts of phenomena such as wh-movement and cross–serial dependencies. In this article we present a formalism for non-projective dependency grammar in the framework of linear context-free rewriting systems. A characteristic property of our formalism is a close correspondence between the non-projectivity of the dependency trees admitted by a grammar on the one hand, and the parsing complexity of the grammar on the other. We show that parsing with unrestricted grammars is intractable. We therefore study two constraints on non-projectivity, block-degree and well-nestedness. Jointly, these two constraints define a class of “mildly” non-projective dependency grammars that can be parsed in polynomial time. An evaluation on five dependency treebanks shows that these grammars have a good coverage of empirical data.

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Miura, Akira, and Masahiro Tanimori. "Handbook of Japanese Grammar." Modern Language Journal 80, no. 3 (1996): 424. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/329477.

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Alothman, Ameerah, and AbdulMalik Alsalman. "An Arabic Grammar Auditor Based on Dependency Grammar." Advances in Human-Computer Interaction 2020 (December 4, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8856843.

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The Arabic language has many complex grammar rules that may seem complicated to the average user or learner. Automatic grammar checking systems can improve the quality of the text, reduce the costs of the proofreading process, and play a role in grammar teaching. This paper presents an initiative toward developing a novel and comprehensive Arabic auditor that can address vowelized texts. We called the “Arabic Grammar Detector” (AGD-أَجِــدْ). AGD was successfully implemented based on a dependency grammar and decision tree classifier model. Its purpose is to extract patterns of grammatical rules from a projective dependency graph in order to designate the appropriate syntax dependencies of a sentence. The current implementation covers almost all regular Arabic grammar rules for nonvowelized texts as well as partially or fully vowelized texts. AGD was evaluated using the Tashkeela corpus. It can detect more than 94% of grammatical errors and hint at their causes and possible corrections.

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Diaconescu, Ştefan. "Natural Language Syntax Description using Generative Dependency Grammar." Polibits 38 (December 31, 2008): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17562/pb-38-1.

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Haig, John H. "Subjacency and Japanese Grammar." Studies in Language 20, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 53–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.20.1.04hai.

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It has been claimed by Hasegawa, Yoshimura, Nishigauchi, Kikuchi, Saito and Watanabe, among others, that Japanese observes subjacency in relative clause formation, question formation, topicalization, comparative deletion (all non-overt operator movements), PP-topicalization, and scrambling (overt movements). In this paper I present counterexamples to each of these claims and argue that an aboutness condition on topic-comment and focus-comment constructions not only better explains the data but also explains the fact that subjects are usually easier to relativize than non-subjects, the fact that NP-topicalization is more free than PP-topicalization and the fact that there is pressure for a "list" interpretation in multiple wh-questions.

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형진의. "Modern Japanese national language and grammar." Japanese Modern Association of Korea ll, no. 46 (November 2014): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.16979/jmak..46.201411.7.

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Ito, Tatsuji, and Sei‐ichi Nakagawa. "Sentence understanding of spoken Japanese using phrase spotting and dependency grammar." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 84, S1 (November 1988): S213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2026161.

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TALLERMAN, MAGGIE. "Phrase structure vs. dependency: The analysis of Welsh syntactic soft mutation." Journal of Linguistics 45, no. 1 (January 28, 2009): 167–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226708005550.

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Most familiar syntactic frameworks recognize the category ‘phrase’, and are built around phrase structure relationships. However, the Word Grammar dependency model does not acknowledge the category ‘phrase’ as a primitive in the grammar; instead, all relationships are word-based, with phrases having no syntactic status. Here, I investigate the theoretical validity of the notion ‘phrase’ by examining the phenomenon in Welsh known as syntactic soft mutation, contrasting a phrase-based account with a dependency account. I conclude that an empirically adequate analysis of syntactic soft mutation must make reference to phrases as a category, thus ruling out the dependency account. A further theoretical question concerns the role played in the grammar by syntactically present but phonetically unrealized elements, including empty categories such as wh-traces and unrealized material in ellipsis. Syntactic soft mutation proves an interesting testing ground in these contexts, but the data again fail to support the dependency account. The conclusion is that a phrase-based account of the mutation is better motivated and empirically more accurate than the alternative dependency account.

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Nara, Hiroshi, and Rita L. Lampkin. "Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar." Modern Language Journal 79, no. 3 (1995): 450. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/329379.

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Nara, Hiroshi, and Mutsuko Endo Hudson. "English Grammar for Students of Japanese." Modern Language Journal 79, no. 2 (1995): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/329656.

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Cyrus, Lea. "A handbook of Japanese grammar (review)." Language 83, no. 4 (2008): 924. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2008.0029.

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Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos, John Carroll, and David Weir. "Dependency Parsing Schemata and Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Parsing." Computational Linguistics 37, no. 3 (September 2011): 541–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00060.

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We introduce dependency parsing schemata, a formal framework based on Sikkel's parsing schemata for constituency parsers, which can be used to describe, analyze, and compare dependency parsing algorithms. We use this framework to describe several well-known projective and non-projective dependency parsers, build correctness proofs, and establish formal relationships between them. We then use the framework to define new polynomial-time parsing algorithms for various mildly non-projective dependency formalisms, including well-nested structures with their gap degree bounded by a constant k in time O(n5+2k), and a new class that includes all gap degree k structures present in several natural language treebanks (which we call mildly ill-nested structures for gap degree k) in time O(n4+3k). Finally, we illustrate how the parsing schema framework can be applied to Link Grammar, a dependency-related formalism.

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OHNO, T. "Robust Dependency Parsing of Spontaneous Japanese Spoken Language." IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems E88-D, no. 3 (March 1, 2005): 545–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.3.545.

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Gamallo Otero, Pablo, and Isaac González López. "A grammatical formalism based on patterns of Part of Speech tags." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16, no. 1 (March 11, 2011): 45–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16.1.03gam.

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In this paper, we describe a grammatical formalism, called DepPattern, to write dependency grammars using patterns of Part of Speech (PoS) tags augmented with lexical and morphological information. The formalism inherits ideas from Sinclair’s work and Pattern Grammar. To properly analyze semi-fixed idiomatic expressions, DepPattern distinguishes between open-choice and idiomatic rules. A grammar is defined as a set of lexical-syntactic rules at different levels of abstraction. In addition, a compiler was implemented so as to generate deterministic and robust parsers from DepPattern grammars. These parsers identify dependencies which can be used to improve corpus-based applications such as information extraction. At the end of this article, we describe an experiment which evaluates the efficiency of a dependency parser generated from a simple DepPattern grammar. In particular, we evaluated the precision of a semantic extraction method making use of a DepPattern-based parser.

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Zhang, Xun, Yantao Du, Weiwei Sun, and Xiaojun Wan. "Transition-Based Parsing for Deep Dependency Structures." Computational Linguistics 42, no. 3 (September 2016): 353–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00252.

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Derivations under different grammar formalisms allow extraction of various dependency structures. Particularly, bilexical deep dependency structures beyond surface tree representation can be derived from linguistic analysis grounded by CCG, LFG, and HPSG. Traditionally, these dependency structures are obtained as a by-product of grammar-guided parsers. In this article, we study the alternative data-driven, transition-based approach, which has achieved great success for tree parsing, to build general dependency graphs. We integrate existing tree parsing techniques and present two new transition systems that can generate arbitrary directed graphs in an incremental manner. Statistical parsers that are competitive in both accuracy and efficiency can be built upon these transition systems. Furthermore, the heterogeneous design of transition systems yields diversity of the corresponding parsing models and thus greatly benefits parser ensemble. Concerning the disambiguation problem, we introduce two new techniques, namely, transition combination and tree approximation, to improve parsing quality. Transition combination makes every action performed by a parser significantly change configurations. Therefore, more distinct features can be extracted for statistical disambiguation. With the same goal of extracting informative features, tree approximation induces tree backbones from dependency graphs and re-uses tree parsing techniques to produce tree-related features. We conduct experiments on CCG-grounded functor–argument analysis, LFG-grounded grammatical relation analysis, and HPSG-grounded semantic dependency analysis for English and Chinese. Experiments demonstrate that data-driven models with appropriate transition systems can produce high-quality deep dependency analysis, comparable to more complex grammar-driven models. Experiments also indicate the effectiveness of the heterogeneous design of transition systems for parser ensemble, transition combination, as well as tree approximation for statistical disambiguation.

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Yamaguchi, Toshiko, and Magnús Pétursson. "Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies." English Today 34, no. 2 (October 12, 2017): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078417000359.

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This paper investigates the English language spoken by four educated Japanese speakers from an acoustic phonetic perspective. We look closely at how they pronounce and connect segments in reading a short text. Because English has the status of an international language, it is actively used for various purposes within and across countries. English speakers are therefore not necessarily native speakers but have a different first language (L1); English is a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) for them. There are increasing numbers of studies on Japanese English (JE), particularly from attitudinal and perceptual angles (e.g. Tokumoto & Shibata, 2011; Matsuura et al., 2014), but, as McKenzie (2013: 228) notes, there is a dearth of research that documents, or systematically characterizes, the English produced by Japanese speakers.

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Koike, Satoshi Stanley, and Takao Gunji. "Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar: A Unification-Based Approach." Language 67, no. 2 (June 1991): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415137.

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Voutilainen, Atro. "Tagging and parsing with rules." Ambiguity 24, no. 1 (December 31, 2001): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.24.1.04vou.

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Summary This paper outlines a new system for tagging and parsing Swedish texts. The system is modelled on our earlier work on English tagging and parsing (Constraint Grammar, Functional Dependency Grammar). The paper consists of the following sections: earlier work on Swedish analysis; tagging and parsing in the Helsinki approach; outline of the system itself; a small performance experiment and discussion.

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MCCORD, MICHAEL, ARENDSE BERNTH, SHALOM LAPPIN, and WLODEK ZADROZNY. "NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITHIN A SLOT GRAMMAR FRAMEWORK." International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 01, no. 02 (June 1992): 229–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021821309200020x.

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This paper contains brief descriptions of the latest form of Slot Grammar and four natural language processing systems developed in this framework. Slot Grammar is a lexicalist, dependency-oriented grammatical system, based on the systematic expression of linguistic rules and data in terms of slots (essentially grammatical relations) and slot frames. The exposition focuses on the kinds of analysis structures produced by the Slot Grammar parser. These structures offer convenient input to post-syntactic processing (in particular to the applications dealt with in the paper); they contain in a single structure a useful combination of surface structure and logical form. The four applications discussed are: (1) An anaphora resolution system dealing with both NP anaphora and VP anaphora (and combinations of the two). (2) A meaning postulate based inference system for natural language, in which inference is done directly with Slot Grammar analysis structures. (3) A new transfer system for the machine translation system LMT, based on a new representation for Slot Grammar analyses which allows more convenient tree exploration. (4) A parser of "constructions", viewed as an extension of the core grammar allowing one to handle some linguistic phenomena that are often labeled "extragrammatical", and to assign a semantics to them.

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Cahill, Aoife, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Stefan Riezler, Josef van Genabith, and Andy Way. "Wide-Coverage Deep Statistical Parsing Using Automatic Dependency Structure Annotation." Computational Linguistics 34, no. 1 (March 2008): 81–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli.2008.34.1.81.

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A number of researchers have recently conducted experiments comparing “deep” hand-crafted wide-coverage with “shallow” treebank- and machine-learning-based parsers at the level of dependencies, using simple and automatic methods to convert tree output generated by the shallow parsers into dependencies. In this article, we revisit such experiments, this time using sophisticated automatic LFG f-structure annotation methodologies with surprising results. We compare various PCFG and history-based parsers to find a baseline parsing system that fits best into our automatic dependency structure annotation technique. This combined system of syntactic parser and dependency structure annotation is compared to two hand-crafted, deep constraint-based parsers, RASP and XLE. We evaluate using dependency-based gold standards and use the Approximate Randomization Test to test the statistical significance of the results. Our experiments show that machine-learning-based shallow grammars augmented with sophisticated automatic dependency annotation technology outperform hand-crafted, deep, wide-coverage constraint grammars. Currently our best system achieves an f-score of 82.73% against the PARC 700 Dependency Bank, a statistically significant improvement of 2.18% over the most recent results of 80.55% for the hand-crafted LFG grammar and XLE parsing system and an f-score of 80.23% against the CBS 500 Dependency Bank, a statistically significant 3.66% improvement over the 76.57% achieved by the hand-crafted RASP grammar and parsing system.

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JALİLBEYLİ, Ogtay. "The Grammar Tense Categories In Japanese Language (In Comparison With Azerbaijani Language)." Journal of Turkish Studies Volume 4 Issue 3, no. 4 (2009): 1213–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/turkishstudies.723.

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Marsden, Heather. "Pair-list readings in Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese and English-Japanese interlanguage." Second Language Research 24, no. 2 (April 2008): 189–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658307086301.

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In English and Chinese, questions with a wh-object and a universally quantified subject (e.g. What did everyone buy?) allow an individual answer (Everyone bought apples.) and a pair-list answer ( Sam bought apples, Jo bought bananas, Sally bought...). By contrast, the pair-list answer is reportedly unavailable in Japanese and Korean. This article documents an experimental investigation of the interpretation of such questions in non-native Japanese by learners whose first languages (Lls) are Korean, Chinese or English. The results show that, regardless of L1, only a minority of advanced second language (L2) Japanese learners demonstrate knowledge of the absence of pair-list readings in Japanese. In English-Japanese and Chinese-Japanese interlanguage, L1 transfer readily accounts for this finding: the L1 grammar, which allows pair-list readings, may obstruct acquisition of the more restrictive Japanese grammar. But in Korean-Japanese interlanguage, L1 transfer predicts rejection of pair-list answers. However, in a Korean version of the experimental task, a native Korean control group robustly accepts pair-list readings, contra expectations. A proposal to account for this finding is put forward, under which the Korean-Japanese interlanguage data become compatible with an L1-transfer-based model of L2 acquisition. Moreover, the native-like rejection of pair-list readings by some advanced learners of all three L1 backgrounds is argued to imply that UG constraints operate at the L2 syntax-semantics interface.

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SO, SUFUMI. "Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar: Comprehensive Acquisition by JOHNSON, YUKI." Modern Language Journal 94, no. 1 (March 2010): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.01006.x.

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Osborne, Timothy. "Adjectives as roots of nominal groups: the big mess construction in dependency grammar." Folia Linguistica 55, no. 1 (February 15, 2021): 231–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2075.

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Abstract The so-called ‘Big Mess Construction’ (BMC) frustrates standard assumptions about the structure of nominal groups. The normal position of an attributive adjective is after the determiner and before the noun, but in the BMC, the adjective precedes the determiner, e.g. that strange a sound, so big a scandal, too lame an excuse. Previous accounts of the BMC are couched in ‘Phrase Structure Grammar’ (PSG) and view the noun or the determiner (or the preposition of) as the root/head of the BMC phrase. In contrast, the current approach, which is couched in a ‘Dependency Grammar’ (DG) model, argues that the adjective is in fact the root/head of the phrase. A number of insights point to the adjective as the root/head, the most important of which is the optional appearance of the preposition of, e.g. that strange of a sound, so big of a scandal, too lame of an excuse.

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Ohno, Tomohiro, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka, Takehiko Maruyama, Hideki Tanaka, and Yasuyoshi Inagaki. "Dependency parsing of Japanese monologue using clause boundaries." Language Resources and Evaluation 40, no. 3-4 (July 12, 2007): 263–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-007-9023-y.

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Gimpel, Kevin, and Noah A. Smith. "Phrase Dependency Machine Translation with Quasi-Synchronous Tree-to-Tree Features." Computational Linguistics 40, no. 2 (June 2014): 349–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00175.

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Recent research has shown clear improvement in translation quality by exploiting linguistic syntax for either the source or target language. However, when using syntax for both languages (“tree-to-tree” translation), there is evidence that syntactic divergence can hamper the extraction of useful rules (Ding and Palmer 2005 ). Smith and Eisner ( 2006 ) introduced quasi-synchronous grammar, a formalism that treats non-isomorphic structure softly using features rather than hard constraints. Although a natural fit for translation modeling, its flexibility has proved challenging for building real-world systems. In this article, we present a tree-to-tree machine translation system inspired by quasi-synchronous grammar. The core of our approach is a new model that combines phrases and dependency syntax, integrating the advantages of phrase-based and syntax-based translation. We report statistically significant improvements over a phrase-based baseline on five of seven test sets across four language pairs. We also present encouraging preliminary results on the use of unsupervised dependency parsing for syntax-based machine translation.

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Gamallo, Pablo. "The role of syntactic dependencies in compositional distributional semantics." Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 13, no. 2 (September 26, 2017): 261–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2016-0038.

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AbstractThis article provides a preliminary semantic framework for Dependency Grammar in which lexical words are semantically defined as contextual distributions (sets of contexts) while syntactic dependencies are compositional operations on word distributions. More precisely, any syntactic dependency uses the contextual distribution of the dependent word to restrict the distribution of the head, and makes use of the contextual distribution of the head to restrict that of the dependent word. The interpretation of composite expressions and sentences, which are analyzed as a tree of binary dependencies, is performed by restricting the contexts of words dependency by dependency in a left-to-right incremental way. Consequently, the meaning of the whole composite expression or sentence is not a single representation, but a list of contextualized senses, namely the restricted distributions of its constituent (lexical) words. We report the results of two large-scale corpus-based experiments on two different natural language processing applications: paraphrasing and compositional translation.

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Fukui, Naoki. "Formal Japanese syntax and universal grammar: the past 20 years." Lingua 113, no. 4-6 (April 2003): 315–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3841(02)00079-7.

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Liu, Zhe. "Mother Tongue Interference in Japanese Passive Sentence Teaching —— Analysis Based on Functional Grammar." Review of Educational Theory 1, no. 4 (December 4, 2018): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/ret.v1i4.337.

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For foreign language learners, whether Chinese people are learning Japanese or Japanese learning Chinese, if they can eliminate the interference of basic knowledge of the mother tongue, the efficiency of foreign language learning will be greatly improved. This paper mainly analyzes the problem of mother tongue interference encountered by Japanese learners who use Chinese as their mother tongue in the study of "passive sentences". It focuses on introducing Japanese functional grammar on the basis of traditional grammar to eliminate these interference problems.

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Fitch, W. Tecumseh, and Angela D. Friederici. "Artificial grammar learning meets formal language theory: an overview." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no. 1598 (July 19, 2012): 1933–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0103.

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Formal language theory (FLT), part of the broader mathematical theory of computation, provides a systematic terminology and set of conventions for describing rules and the structures they generate, along with a rich body of discoveries and theorems concerning generative rule systems. Despite its name, FLT is not limited to human language, but is equally applicable to computer programs, music, visual patterns, animal vocalizations, RNA structure and even dance. In the last decade, this theory has been profitably used to frame hypotheses and to design brain imaging and animal-learning experiments, mostly using the ‘artificial grammar-learning’ paradigm. We offer a brief, non-technical introduction to FLT and then a more detailed analysis of empirical research based on this theory. We suggest that progress has been hampered by a pervasive conflation of distinct issues, including hierarchy, dependency, complexity and recursion. We offer clarifications of several relevant hypotheses and the experimental designs necessary to test them. We finally review the recent brain imaging literature, using formal languages, identifying areas of convergence and outstanding debates. We conclude that FLT has much to offer scientists who are interested in rigorous empirical investigations of human cognition from a neuroscientific and comparative perspective.

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Koyama, Wataru. "Reference Entailment and Maintenance Mechanisms in Universal Grammar of Japanese." Studies in Language 23, no. 1 (July 2, 1999): 105–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.23.1.05koy.

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This essay tries to 1) outline a pragmatically anchored, universal matrix of morpho-syntax and semantics, 2) provide a general account of one of its components, i.e., reference entailment and maintenance mechanisms, and 3) focus on some of these mechanisms, such as "topic-markers" and "topicalizers" (defined below), by analyzing the structural and functional characteristics of several particles in Japanese, in terms of the interactions between markedness hierarchy, the semantic contents of NPs (explained below), case relations, interclausal linkages and reference-maintenance relations. Also the paper investigates relationships between forms in the linguistic structure of Japanese and the emotive and conative effects of their uses in discourse.

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Gebhardt, Kilian, Mark-Jan Nederhof, and Heiko Vogler. "Hybrid Grammars for Parsing of Discontinuous Phrase Structures and Non-Projective Dependency Structures." Computational Linguistics 43, no. 3 (September 2017): 465–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00291.

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We explore the concept of hybrid grammars, which formalize and generalize a range of existing frameworks for dealing with discontinuous syntactic structures. Covered are both discontinuous phrase structures and non-projective dependency structures. Technically, hybrid grammars are related to synchronous grammars, where one grammar component generates linear structures and another generates hierarchical structures. By coupling lexical elements of both components together, discontinuous structures result. Several types of hybrid grammars are characterized. We also discuss grammar induction from treebanks. The main advantage over existing frameworks is the ability of hybrid grammars to separate discontinuity of the desired structures from time complexity of parsing. This permits exploration of a large variety of parsing algorithms for discontinuous structures, with different properties. This is confirmed by the reported experimental results, which show a wide variety of running time, accuracy, and frequency of parse failures.

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Teubert, Wolfgang. "Sinclair, pattern grammar and the question of hatred." Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair 12, no. 2 (June 27, 2007): 223–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.2.08teu.

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The view of pattern grammar is that syntactic structures and lexical items are co-selected and that grammatical categories begin to align very closely with semantic distinctions. While this is certainly a valid position when analysing the phenomenon of collocation, it does not really solve the problem for open choice issues. Not all language use can be subsumed under the idiom principle. The noun hatred, for instance, can co-occur with any discourse object for which hatred can be expressed. It can also co-occur with other lexical items standing for various circumstantial aspects. The grammatical structure itself often does not tell us whether we find expressed the object of hatred or some circumstantial aspect, as these structures tend to have more than one reading. Lexicogrammar, or local grammar, is more than equating a syntactic structure with a semantic pattern. We have to be aware of the different functions or readings a given grammatical structure can have. The framework of valency/dependency grammar can help us to make the necessary distinctions.

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Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra Thompson. "Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching." Studies in Language 41, no. 3 (October 25, 2017): 543–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.3.01ono.

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Abstract ‘Negative scope’ concerns what it is that is negated in an utterance with a negative morpheme. With English and Japanese conversational data, we show that for an English speaker, calculating negative scope requires that recipients incrementally keep track of all the material in the clause that follows the negative morpheme, which comes early in the clause. In contrast, the negative morpheme comes late in the clause in Japanese; thus it would seem that recipients need to hold in memory all the material in the clause preceding the negative until the negative morpheme is produced. Several features of Japanese grammar, however, suggest that this characterization is not accurate. We argue that prosody, grammar, cognition, processing, and fixedness all interact with the grammar of clause organization to afford quite different real-time processing strategies for calculating the assignment of negative scope in languages with different ‘word order’ norms.

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Kempson, Ruth. "Wh-gap Binding and Ellipsis — a Grammar for an Input System." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 14, no. 1 (June 1991): 41–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s033258650000233x.

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This paper argues that pragmatic processes and syntactic constraints interact, that we can nevertheless retain the assumption that the natural language faculty is fully encapsulated, and that the problems posed by the phenomenon of gapping (bare argument ellipsis) can be resolved by analysing gapping as an instance of such interaction. A new model of language is sketched out, a model which is a formal reconstruction of assumptions about the language faculty and its relation to central cognitive processes made by Fodor. and Sperber and Wilson. A fragment is defined to cover pronominal anaphoric dependency and quantifier binding, and a new analysis of bare argument ellipsis (gapping) is presented.

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Laury, Ritva, and Tsuyoshi Ono. "The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 24, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 561–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.24.3.06lau.

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Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or continue with another clause-sized unit, resulting in a clause combination. We conclude that morphosyntax alone cannot account for the patterns found in our data, but that the participants orient to, at least, prosodic and nonverbal cues in determining the boundaries of clauses and projecting continuation in the form of another clause. Also important for projection are fixed expressions or ‘prefabs’. In addition, semantic and pragmatic factors play a role. In that sense, we explore the question of where the limits of grammar for interaction, understood as the knowledge which speakers share and which forms the basis for the creation and processing of novel utterances, should be drawn, and whether grammar should include, beyond morphosyntax, not only prosodic, pragmatic and semantic features but also bodily behavior.

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PAVLOVIČ, Miha. "Grammar Errors by Slovenian Learners of Japanese: Corpus Analysis of Writings on Beginner and Intermediate Levels." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 10, no. 1 (January 30, 2020): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.10.1.87-104.

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This paper presents the construction of a corpus of writings by Slovene learners of Japanese as a foreign language at the beginner and intermediate levels and an analysis of the grammar errors contained within it, with the purpose of providing a simple and effective means of acquiring data on errors made by students of Japanese as a second language. Additionally, an error analysis of the grammar errors in the corpus and a comparison of the most common errors found on both levels, reveals the types of errors that carry over from the beginner to the intermediate level, negatively affecting the learning process. By compiling and analyzing a collection of 182 written texts written by Japanese learners, 492 cases of grammar misuse were observed on the beginner and 564 on the intermediate level. A comparative analysis of the most common types of grammar misuse on each level highlights the types of errors that seem to carry over from the beginner to the intermediate level. The findings can be useful to Japanese language learners as well as teachers. Furthermore, the learner’s corpus created in the process marks the first step towards the creation of a larger, annotated and publicly accessible learner corpus of writings by Slovenian learners of Japanese to be used for further research in the field of second language acquisition.

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Savitskaya, Ekaterina Vladimirovna. "Dependency Between Grammatical Structure of Language and Verbal Thinking Strategies." Ethnic Culture, no. 3 (4) (September 29, 2020): 35–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-86032.

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The article contains a discussion of how the grammatical structure of a language determines sentence structure and affects verbal thinking strategy. The stages of languages’ historic development (incorporative, ergative, nominative) and the relationship between sentence structure and native speakers’ thinking are characterized. The common case of the grammatical subject of a sentence does mean that Anglo-Saxons regard themselves as their own fortune’s active makers and masters. The common case equally expresses success and failure, activity and passivity, self-will and conformity. Nowadays, languages of all the three types coexist on the Globe. The languages of the first two types are used not only by primitive peoples but also by civilized nations. But this does not mean that civilized speakers think archaically. Methods and conclusions. Contrastive analysis of language material (English personal and Russian impersonal morphosyntactic constructions) enables the author to conclude: there is no direct correlation between national character and sentence structure. The connection between thinking and grammar does not consist in this; it consists in the choice of thinking strategies based on the grammatical potential of the language under discussion.

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Maruyama, Akiyo. "Japanese Wa in conversational discourse." Studies in Language 27, no. 2 (October 31, 2003): 245–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.27.2.03mar.

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This study provides evidence to support the claim that a primary function of the postpositional particle wa in Japanese conversational discourse is to mark a contrast. Wa has been widely studied in research on sentence grammar, which has suggested two separate functions of the particle, thematic and contrastive (Kuno 1973a; 1973b; Shibatani 1990). However, no study seems to have been done on conversation. In my study, analysis of 80 tokens of np-wa in conversation has revealed that wa marks a contrast. Furthermore, this study claims that it is the prior discourse that serves to establish the contrastive function of wa.

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Han, Dongli, Takeshi Ito, and Teiji Furugori. "Structural Analysis of Compound Words in Japanese Using Semantic Dependency Relations∗." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 9, no. 1 (April 2002): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jqul.9.1.1.8480.

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Fukushima, Kazuhiko. "Phrase structure grammar, montague semantics, and floating quantifiers in Japanese." Linguistics and Philosophy 14, no. 6 (December 1991): 581–628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00631961.

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Imrényi, András. "Form-meaning correspondences in multiple dimensions: The structure of Hungarian finite clauses." Cognitive Linguistics 28, no. 2 (May 1, 2017): 287–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2016-0082.

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AbstractThe paper combines the assumptions of Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar and Dependency Grammar, arguing for an analysis of clauses as multi-dimensional networks. The semantic pole of each dimension is a network of semantic relations, which stands in correspondence to formal aspects of clause structure such as case morphology, word order and prosody. The proposed approach is applied to the study of core phenomena of Hungarian. The D1 dimension of Hungarian finite clauses is concerned with frame semantic (“thematic”) relations and their coding (primarily by morphology) on the formal side. The D2 and D3 dimensions pertain to speech function and contextualization, respectively, with the semantic relations marked by word order and prosody. It is hoped that the proposed account of Hungarian may inform both cross-linguistic comparisons and theory development in cognitive linguistics.

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