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Further <strong><a href="https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/about/submissions">submission instructions for Authors are available here</a></strong>.</p> Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences en-US Journal of Language Modelling 2299-856X <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/80x15.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /></a><br />All content is licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="license noopener">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence</a>.</p> https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/397 <p class="p1">This paper presents a new computational implementation bridging several modules of grammar from phonetics to phonology to syntax. The system takes as input a speech signal annotated with syllables, interprets the phonetic data in phonological/prosodic terms, matches the data against a lexicon and makes the results available to a linguistically deep computational grammar. The system is showcased by means of syntactically ambiguous structures in German which can be disambiguated based on prosodic constituency information. A system evaluation with the German data showed good results for this new combination of automatic speech signal analysis and computational grammars, which takes a significant step towards a linguistically fine-grained computational analysis and hence towards real automatic speech understanding.</p> Tina Bögel Tianyi Zhao Copyright (c) 2025 Tina Bögel, Tianyi Zhao https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2025-01-30 2025-01-30 13 1 1–42 1–42 10.15398/jlm.v13i1.397 https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/411 <p class="p1">This paper presents a subregular analysis of syntactic agreement patterns modeled using <em>command strings</em> over Minimalist Grammar (MG) dependency trees (Graf and Shafiei 2019), incorporating a novel MG treatment of agreement. Phenomena of interest include relativized minimality and its exceptions, direction of feature transmission, and configurations involving chains of agreeing elements. Such patterns are shown to fall within the class of <em>tier-based strictly 2-local</em> (TSL-2) languages, which has previously been argued to subsume the majority of long-distance syntactic phenomena, as well as those in phonology and morphology (Graf 2022a). This characterization places a tight upper bound on the range of configurations that are predicted to occur while providing parameters for variation which closely match the observed typology.</p> Kenneth Hanson Copyright (c) 2025 Kenneth Hanson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2025-06-09 2025-06-09 13 1 43–97 43–97 10.15398/jlm.v13i1.411