Compiling a Monolingual Dictionary for Native Speakers

DanNet: the challenge of compiling a wordnet for Danish by reusing a monolingual dictionary

This paper is a contribution to the discussion on compiling computational lexical resources from conventional dictionaries. It describes the theoretical as well as practical problems that are encountered when reusing a conventional dictionary for compiling a lexical-semantic resource in terms of a wordnet. More specifically, it describes the methodological issues of compiling a wordnet for Dani...

Bilingual and monolingual children prefer native-accented speakers

Adults and young children prefer to affiliate with some individuals rather than others. Studies have shown that monolingual children show in-group biases for individuals who speak their native language without a foreign accent (Kinzler et al., 2007). Some studies have suggested that bilingual children are less influenced than monolinguals by language variety when attributing personality traits ...

The Effect of Speaking Style on Variability of Vowel Production for Native Monolingual English Speakers

The Eurotra (uk) Monolingual Dictionary**

This paper provides an overview of the Eurotra-UK Monolingual Dictionary (EMD) the English lexicon designed and implemented by the British Eurotra group. An outline of some of the design considerations will be given, along with details of the size and scope of the lexicon. A brief description of the feature specifications of entries will also be provided for the major grammatical categories, an...

Proficiency Differences in Syntactic Processing of Monolingual Native Speakers Indexed by Event-related Potentials

Although anecdotally there appear to be differences in the way native speakers use and comprehend their native language, most empirical investigations of language processing study university students and none have studied differences in language proficiency, which may be independent of resource limitations such as working memory span. We examined differences in language proficiency in adult mon...