The effects of phrase-length order and scrambling in the processing of visually presented Japanese sentences.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32, 431-455. The Effects of Phrase-Length Order and Scrambling in the Processing of Visually-presented Japanese Sentences

Do Heavy-NP Shift Phenomenon and Constituent Ordering in English Cause Sentence Processing Difficulty for EFL Learners?

Heavy-NP shift occurs when speakers prefer placing lengthy or “heavy” noun phrase direct objects in the clause-final position within a sentence rather than in the post-verbal position. Two experiments were conducted in this study, and their results suggested that having a long noun phrase affected the ordering of constituents (the noun phrase and prepositional phrase) by advanced Iranian EFL le...

Feature Engineering in Persian Dependency Parser

Dependency parser is one of the most important fundamental tools in the natural language processing, which extracts structure of sentences and determines the relations between words based on the dependency grammar. The dependency parser is proper for free order languages, such as Persian. In this paper, data-driven dependency parser has been developed with the help of phrase-structure parser fo...

Cipher text only attack on speech time scrambling systems using correction of audio spectrogram

Recently permutation multimedia ciphers were broken in a chosen-plaintext scenario. That attack models a very resourceful adversary which may not always be the case. To show insecurity of these ciphers, we present a cipher-text only attack on speech permutation ciphers. We show inherent redundancies of speech can pave the path for a successful cipher-text only attack. To that end, regularities ...

Issues on the Scrambling Effects in the Processing of Japanese Sentences: Reply to MIYAMOTO and NAKAMURA (2005) Regarding the Experimental Study by KOIZUMI and TAMAOKA (2004)