[Article abstract:] Syntactic movement as a linguistic phenomenon resulting in rearrangement of constituent ordering is not arbitrary, but is aimed at fulfilling efficiency principles of processing. Constituents’ weight and structural complexity seem to be significant d...

This dataset contains tabular files with (i) auditory data on final voiced obstruent (FVO) production by German learners and (ii) acoustic measurements of the preceding vowel duration by German learners and native speakers. The data originate from two different studies....

This dataset provides replication data for an article on complementation structures in early Slavonic. Syntactic annotation of historical text, with no access to native-speaker intuitions, poses a number of problems to the annotator who is faced with the task of giving ...

Different classes of quantifiers provably require different verification algorithms with different complexity profiles. The algorithm for proportional quantifiers, like `most', is more complex than that for nonproportional quantifiers, like `all' and `three'. We tested ...

The dataset contains: Praat scripts for extracting and annotating relevant utterances from larger sound files, and extracting data (F0) from shorter sound files for further analysis. Sound files (.wav) containing single utterances Praat Pitch files with F0 contours...

Theories in formal semantics state that the meanings of phrases and sentences are composed from the meanings of constituent parts and their syntactic mode of combination. Little is known about how composition is implemented in the brain. In two experiments, we studied o...

NorVal is a resource representing the valence potential of more than 6300 verb lemmas of Norwegian, distinguished according to 300 different frame types. Since some verb lemmas take more than one valence frame, one format of lexical entries consists of a lemma and one s...

The dataset contains instances of the (semi-)modal verbs 'must', 'have to', 'need to' and '(have) got to' from nineteen written and spoken genres in the Scottish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE-SCO and ICE-GB). Nonfinite forms (e.g. 'w...

This dataset contains tabular files with acoustic measurements for two English vowel categories, TRAP and DRESS, produced by n = 62 German learners of English and n = 26 native speakers of English (BrE and AmE). The German subjects are instructional-setting learners ran...

This dataset contains auditory classifications for prevocalic and postvocalic /r/ produced by German learners of English. The data originate from four different studies. The data by Pascoe (1987) include n = 26 speakers (instructional-setting learners from southern Bava...