Sentence examples for adjacent dependencies from inspiring English sources

The learning of these non-adjacent dependencies is much more difficult than learning adjacent dependencies.

Language, in particular, involves learning and processing of complex sequential structures, such as the sequence of phonemes that form a word, sequence of words that form a phrase, and word order, adjacent dependencies (e.g. determiners such as 'a' and 'the' always occur before a noun phrase) and nonadjacent relationships (e.g. is V- ing ).

Previous studies demonstrate dependency sensitivity in various animal species in the acoustic domain: van Heijningen and colleagues (van Heijningen et al. 2009, 2013) demonstrated for zebra finches that simple adjacent dependency rules (same or different elements) can explain results from complex pattern processing experiments.

In addition, a splicing procedure eliminated prosodic cues in order to ensure that non-adjacent dependencies were learned instead of adjacent ones.

Furthermore, the replication of the earlier study with prosodically controlled material adds evidence to the general finding that syntactic non-adjacent dependencies can be learned from mere exposure to correct examples.

Thus, these studies indicate that the ability to learn non-adjacent dependencies from input in a given language appears to be present relatively late during development.

Thus, adult learners were only able to learn the non-adjacent dependencies from the Italian sentence input when their attention was explicitly directed to the rule extraction.

Thus, the issue of when and how children begin to recognize such non-adjacent dependencies is fundamental to our understanding of language acquisition.

The present study set out to test whether 4-month-old infants could learn non-adjacent dependencies in a novel language in the above described repetitive learning paradigm.

There are a number of behavioural studies which investigated learning of non-adjacent dependencies, both in artificial learning experiments and in natural language acquisition.

Both types of studies suggest that the learning of non-adjacent dependencies occurs around the age of 17-to-18 17-to-18 17-to-18 months [4].