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Using A Cognitive Architecture In Incremental Sentence Processing, Jeremiah Lane Mcghee

Theses and Dissertations

XNL-Soar is a specialized implementation of the Soar cognitive architecture. The version of XNL-Soar described in this thesis builds upon and extends prior research (Lewis, 1993; Rytting,2000) using Soar for natural language processing. This thesis describes the updates made to operators creating syntactic structure and the improved coverage of syntactic phenomena. It describes the addition of semantic structure building capability. This thesis also details the implementation of semantic memory and describes two experiments utilizing semantic memory in structural disambiguation. This thesis shows that XNL-Soar, as currently instantiated, resolves ambiguities common in language using strategies and resources including: reanalysis via snip …

Six Discourse Markers In Tunisian Arabic: A Syntactic And Pragmatic Analysis, Chris Adams

Theses and Dissertations

The following study is a description and analysis of six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic. In it I will attempt to determine the syntactic and pragmatic roles of each marker, describing its function in discourse. The final analysis will be based on the pragmatic model of relevance theory.

I have based my study on thirty-two (32) texts in Tunisian Arabic, looking at frequently-occurring discourse markers in these texts and analyzing them based on their discourse roles in terms of local cohesion and pragmatic inference.

The conclusions of this study focus on the conceptual and procedural content of each discourse marker. …

La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski

Ewelina Barski, PhD

A talk given on my dissertation topic, discussing Spanish heritage speakers in Canada and their interpretation of the Overt Pronoun Constraint. The talk was presented at a 4th year Spanish linguistics class - Spanish in Contact (SP4412F) - at Western University. The presentation was done in Spanish.

General Number And The Structure Of Dp, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Sluicing Without Wh-Movement In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Properties Of Predication (Canadian Journal Of Linguistics 57(2)), Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.