In this paper, resources and methods for annotating speech databases with various types of linguistic information are discussed. The decision tree paradigm is explored for pronunciation variation modelling using multiple linguistic context parameters derived from the annotation. Preliminary results suggest that decision tree induction is a suitable paradigm for the task.

This empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in Sistan. Code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. In this framework Persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

the etymology of the qurʾānic vocabulary, unlike some other qurʾānic fields, has remained in the traditional paradigm. even jeffrey’s the foreign vocabulary of the quran, could not make an appropriate reaction among muslim scholars, as has been seen in the wake of nöldeke’s geschichte des qorans or goldzher’s richtungen in the muslim world. needless to say that the scholarly (rather than ideolo...

Linguistic bias is the differential use of linguistic abstraction (as defined by the Linguistic Category Model) to describe the same behaviour for members of different groups. Essentially, it is the tendency to use concrete language for belief-inconsistent behaviours and abstract language for belief-consistent behaviours. Having found that linguistic bias is produced without intention or awaren...

In the visual world paradigm as used in psycholinguistics, eye gaze (i.e. visual orienting) is measured in order to draw conclusions about linguistic processing. However, current theories are underspecified with respect to how visual attention is guided on the basis of linguistic representations. In the visual search paradigm as used within the area of visual attention research, investigators h...

This research aims at proposing a new method for discovering frequent temporal itemsets in continuous subsets of a dataset with quantitative transactions. It is important to note that although these temporal itemsets may have relatively high textit{support} or occurrence within particular time intervals, they do not necessarily get similar textit{support} across the whole dataset, which makes i...