Leggbo Verb Inflection: A Semantic and Phonological Particle Analysis

‏‎a phonological contrastive analysis of kurdish and english‎‏

deposite the different criticisms on contrastive analysis it has been proved that the results of it(when processed)can be usuful in a tefl environment,specially at the level of phonology.this study is an attempt to compare and contrast the sound systems of kurdish and english for pedagogical aims. the consonants,vowels,stress and intonation of the twolanguages are described by the same model-ta...

Semantic, Phonological, and Lexical Influences on Regular and Irregular Inflection

Regular and irregular inflections have become an important tool for understanding mechanisms underlying human language and cognition. Regular-irregular homophones such as rang the bell/ringed the city challenge connectionist models in which phonological information is the only input to the inflection process. Models of language that differentiate between lexicon and grammar attribute these infl...

The Effects of Semantic Priming on Novel Verb Inflection

Contemporary theories of language production disagree about the cognitive mechanisms involved in the production of past tense forms of regular and irregular verbs. Two models compete to explain this process: Dual-route and Single-route. The present study tests these models using previously reported methods of production and naturalness rating of the past tense forms of novel verbs. Overall, par...

An Efficient Treatment Of Japanese Verb Inflection For Morphological Analysis

Because of its simple appearance, Japanese verb inflection has never been treated seriously. In this paper we reconsider traditional lexical treatments of Japanese verb inflection, and propose a new treatment of verb inflection which uses newlydevised segmenting units. We show that our proposed treatment minimizes the number of lexical entries and avoids useless segmentation. It requires 20 to ...

Monotonic Paradigmatic Schemata in Italian Verb Inflection