Variable affix order: Grammar and learning

VARIABLE AFFIX ORDER : GRAMMAR AND LEARNING Kevin

While affix ordering often reflects general syntactic or semantic principles, it can also be arbitrary or variable. This article develops a theory of morpheme ordering based on local morphotactic restrictions encoded as weighted bigram constraints. I examine the formal properties of morphotactic systems, including arbitrariness, nontransitivity, context-sensitivity, analogy, and variation. Seve...

Variable affix order: Grammar and learning

Incremental Learning of Affix Segmentation

This paper presents a supervised machine learning approach to incrementally learn and segment affixes using generic background knowledge. We used Prolog script to split an affix from the Amharic word for further morphological analysis. Amharic, a Semitic language, has very complex inflectional and derivational verb morphology, with many possible prefixes and suffixes which are used to show vari...

The Interaction of Gender with Text Enhancement and Meta-cognitive Grammar Instruction on Learning and Recall of English Grammar

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...

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