Slušná, Dominika (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
Language impairment forms a broader spectrum in humans than current diagnostic labels such as specific language impairment suggest. This thesis is about language capacities at the neglected bottom end ...
Sorodoc, Ionut-Teodor (Date of defense: 2022-04-11)
In this thesis, I tackle the ability of deep neural networks to represent entities, and I assess the extent to which this feature impacts tasks involving entities. I consider two standard architectures, ...
Trypanagnostopoulou, Sofia (Date of defense: 2019-06-14)
Phraseological units are an important part of every language and due to their distinctive characteristics, they require special attention in their lexicographic description. However, phraseology is often ...
Martínez Alonso, Héctor (Date of defense: 2013-12-19)
Words that belong to a semantic type, like location, can metonymically behave as a member of another semantic type, like organization. This phenomenon is known as regular polysemy. In Pustejovsky's ...
Sánchez Marco, Cristina (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
The main aim of this thesis is to trace the development of four different constructions involving auxiliaries and participles through the history of the Spanish language. These constructions are the ...
Borràs Comes, Joan Manel (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)
This thesis investigates the role that different aspects of audiovisual prosody play in the production and perception of interrogativity. To this end, two types of statements and two types of questions ...
Chapin, Kayla (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to ...
Lischinsky, Alon (Date of defense: 2008-11-27)
Esta tesis estudia, desde una perspectiva crítica, cómo el conocimiento experto y la autoridad del autor se construyen y legitiman a través de la estructura discursiva de los libros populares sobre ...
Necşulescu, Silvia (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
Lexical-semantic relationships between words are key information for many NLP tasks, which require this knowledge in the form of lexical resources. This thesis addresses the acquisition of lexical-semantic ...
Zorzi, Giorgia (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
This thesis gives a description and a syntactic analysis for coordination and gapping in conjunction in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) within the framework of Generative Grammar and Minimalism. Regarding ...