Noun–noun combination: Meaningfulness ratings and lexical statistics for 2,160 word pairs

Noun–noun combination: Meaningfulness ratings and lexical statistics for 2,160 word pairs

The combining of individual concepts to form an emergent concept is a fundamental aspect of language, yet much less is known about it than about processing isolated words or sentences. To facilitate research on conceptual combination, we provide meaningfulness ratings for a large set of (2,160) noun-noun pairs. Half of these pairs (1,080) are reversed versions of the other half (e.g., SKI JACKE...

The Statistics of Word Cooccurrences Word Pairs and Collocations

Dissociating the influence of familiarity and meaningfulness from word frequency in naming and lexical decision performance.

Performance in two experiments was compared on a list of words of high and low frequency in which familiarity/meaningfulness (FM) was balanced and on a list of high- and low-frequency words in which FM was confounded with frequency (i.e., high frequency--high familiarity vs. low frequency--low familiarity). Both repetition and task (lexical decision and naming) were investigated. In the lexical...

Lexical stress detection on stress-minimal word pairs

We present a study on the use of lexical stress classi cation to aid in the recognition of phonetically similar words. In this study, we use a simple pattern recognition approach to determine which syllable is lexically stressed for phonetically similar word pairs (e.g., PERfect, perFECT) extracted from continuously spoken sentences. We use a combination of two features from the acoustic correl...

Use of Lexical Statistics for Compound Word Recognition and Segmentation in Turkish

Compound words are cross-linguistic morphological phenomena that occur in all languages. Compound words are widely accepted to be stored in the lexicon but their constituents need to be accessed during both language learning and production processes. In this study, the use of corpora was investigated for how to differentiate single-stem words from single-word compounds and then how to segment c...