Previous studies have suggested that children and adults form cognitive representations of co-occurring word sequences. We propose (1) that the formation of such multi-word unit (MWU) representations precedes and facilitates the formation of single-word representations in children and thus benefits word learning, and (2) that MWU representations facilitate adult word recognition and thus benefi...

In this paper, we present a word-based very large vocabulary automatic speech recognition system for Russian. Some novel methods are proposed for organization of the lexicon and the language model. Two-level morpho-phonemic prefix graph that uses some information on morphemic structure of lexical units is suggested for a compact representation of the pronunciation vocabulary and search space. S...

The design of speech recognition system based on acoustically-derived, segmental units can be divided in three steps: unit design, lexicon building and pronunciation modeling. We formulate an iterative unit design procedure which consistently uses a maximum likelihood (ML) objective in successive application of resegmentation and model re-estimation. The lexicon building allows multi-word entri...

Lately, there seems to be a growing acceptance of the idea that multilingual lexical ontologies might be the key towards aligning different views on the semantic atomic units to be used in characterizing the general meaning of various and multilingual documents. Comparing performances of word sense disambiguation systems is a difficult evaluation task when different sense inventories are used a...

The article deals with English legal terms formed the help of adjectives. author points to relevance adjectives in formation due their evaluation capacity which is an important component concepts. reviews most productive affixes used for It identifies usage frequency simple adjectives, comparative and superlative degrees comparison, attributive prepositional postpositional word-combinations.The...

Are compound words represented as unitary lexical units, or as individual constituents that are processed combinatorially? We investigated the neuro-cognitive processing of compounds using EEG and a passive-listening oddball design in which lexical access and combinatorial processing elicit dissociating Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain-response patterns. MMN amplitude varied with compound freque...

Background. The article is devoted to the study of Austrian specific features in standard literary German language. stages historical development Austria are studied as basis for proper formation. particularities lexical-semantic differences and considered. deals with lexical units due consideration expression meaning word. It established that cultural influenced appearance, adaptation consolid...

We present a method for probabilistic parsing of German words. Our approach uses a morphological analyzer based on weighted finitestate transducers to segment words into lexical units and a probabilistic context free grammar trained on a manually created set of word trees for the parsing step.

The current study addresses a discrepancy in the psycholinguistic literature about the chronology of information processing during the visual recognition of morphologically complex words. Form-then-meaning accounts of complex word recognition claim that morphemes are processed as units of form prior to any influence of their meanings, whereas form-and-meaning models posit that recognition of co...