The Distribution and Prosodic Realization of Verb Forms in German Infant-Directed Speech

Automatic Extraction of Synonyms for German Particle Verbs from Parallel Data with Distributional Similarity as a Re-Ranking Feature

We present a method for the extraction of synonyms for German particle verbs based on a word-aligned German-English parallel corpus: by translating the particle verb to a pivot, which is then translated back, a set of sy…

An Empirical Analysis of the Correlation of Syntax and Prosody

The relation of syntax and prosody (the syntax--prosody interface) has been an active area of research, mostly in linguistics and typically studied under controlled conditions. More recently, prosody has also been succes…

Prosodic Organization and Focus Realization in Taiwan Mandarin

Optimizing a Distributional Semantic Model for the Prediction of German Particle Verb Compositionality

In the work presented here we assess the degree of compositionality of German Particle Verbs with a Distributional Semantics Model which only relies on word window information and has no access to syntactic information a…

GhoSt-PV: A Representative Gold Standard of German Particle Verbs

German particle verbs represent a frequent type of multi-word-expression that forms a highly productive paradigm in the lexicon. Similarly to other multi-word expressions, particle verbs exhibit various levels of composi…