scholarly journals Swedish noun-phrase structure in Russian-speaking learners: An explorative study of L1 influence and input-frequency effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Anders Agebjörn
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Input Frequency ◽  
Frequency Effects ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
L1 Influence

scholarly journals Noun-Phrase Structure by Reprojection

Syntax ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Georgi ◽  
Gereon Müller
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Phrase Structure

Error Type and Lexical Frequency Effects: Error Detection in Swedish Children With Language Impairment

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 2924-2934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Eva Hallin ◽  
Christina Reuterskiöld
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
School Age ◽  
Lexical Frequency ◽  
Control Error ◽  
Frequency Effects

Purpose The first aim of this study was to investigate if Swedish-speaking school-age children with language impairment (LI) show specific morphosyntactic vulnerabilities in error detection. The second aim was to investigate the effects of lexical frequency on error detection, an overlooked aspect of previous error detection studies. Method Error sensitivity for grammatical structures vulnerable in Swedish-speaking preschool children with LI (omission of the indefinite article in a noun phrase with a neuter/common noun, and use of the infinitive instead of past-tense regular and irregular verbs) was compared to a control error (singular noun instead of plural). Target structures involved a high-frequency (HF) or a low-frequency (LF) noun/verb. Grammatical and ungrammatical sentences were presented in headphones, and responses were collected through button presses. Results Children with LI had similar sensitivity to the plural control error as peers with typical language development, but lower sensitivity to past-tense errors and noun phrase errors. All children showed lexical frequency effects for errors involving verbs (HF > LF), and noun gender effects for noun phrase errors (common > neuter). Conclusions School-age children with LI may have subtle difficulties with morphosyntactic processing that mirror expressive difficulties in preschool children with LI. Lexical frequency may affect morphosyntactic processing, which has clinical implications for assessment of grammatical knowledge.

Stoic syntax and semantics

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 281-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urs Egli
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Nominative Case ◽  
Syntactic Rule ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Lexical Categories ◽  
Definite Clause Grammar ◽  
Explicit Statement ◽  
Structural Ambiguity

Summary The Stoic theory of loquia (lekta) contained a fairly explicit statement of formation rules. It is argued that one type of rule was called syntaxis (combination or phrase structure rule) by Chrysippus (e.g., “a subject in the nominative case and a complete predicate form a statement”). Two other types of rule were assignments of words to lexical categories (“Dion is a Noun Phrase”) and subsumption rules (“Every elementary statement is a statement”), often formulated in the form of subdivisions of concepts. A fourth type of rule seems to have been the class of transformations (enklisis, e.g., “A statement transformed by the preterite transformation is a statement”). Every syntactic rule was accompanied by a semantic interpretation according to a version of the compositionality principle familiar in modern times since Frege and elaborated by Montague and his followers. Though the concrete example of a syntax was a fairly elaborate version of some sort of Montague type or definite clause grammar, there was no effort to introduce a theory of grammar in the style of Chomsky. But the texts show awareness of the problem of the infinity of structure generated and of the concept of structural ambiguity. The Stoic system has been transformed into the formulation of the Word and Paradigm Grammar of the technical grammarians – “transformation” (enklisis) was the historical antecedent of paragôgê, declinatio, “inflection”, etc. Some formulations have survived into modern times, e.g., the notion of government, for which Stoic type formulations like “a deficient predicate can be combined with a subject in the accusative case to form a complete predicate” are a historical antecedent.

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