Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (e.g., in the form of sound symbolism or cues to grammatical categories). Yet, paradoxically from a learning viewpoint, most words have an arbitrary form-meaning mapping. We hypothesized that this paradox may reflect a division of labor between 2 differen...

I. Simulated annealing (e.g. Kirkpatrick et alo 1983, Bridle & Moore 1984, Ackley et al. 1985) is a stochastic computational technique for finding optimal solutions to combinatorial problems for which the combinatorial explosion phenomenon rules out the possibility of systematically examining each alternative. It is currently being applied to the practical problem of optimizing the physical des...

Phonetic markedness regarding linguistically relevant tonal patterns (Accent 2, boundary tones) in Central Swedish is discussed. Both tonal markedness and F0 turning points are assumed to be important cues for anticipatory attention to grammatical structure during speech processing. Empirical evidence from neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic experiments for the assumed relation between anticip...

By means of fMRI measurements, the present study identifies brain regions in left and right peri-sylvian areas that subserve grammatical or prosodic processing. Normal volunteers heard 1) normal sentences; 2) so-called syntactic sentences comprising syntactic, but no lexical-semantic information; and 3) manipulated speech signals comprising only prosodic information, i.e., speech melody. For al...

Introduction As an important foundation to theological education in our colleges and seminaries, the study and teaching of biblical Greek constitutes a challenging task as the student of the Greek New Testament (NT) is required to master a variety of grammatical forms and their functions. One of the more significant grammatical features of Greek that demands the student’s (and teacher’s) attent...

The critics evaluated the speeches of preachers and indicated their weaknesses strengths based on an important critical criterion, which is that “the best speech too little to dispense you with a lot.” Accordingly, this research intends study words wisdom texts concept knowledge Imam al-Baqir Muhammad ibn Ali (pbuh), show rich meanings easy verbal formulation in them, through relationship gramm...

1. The Problem I count myself among the linguists who believe in a continuity between grammar and lexicon (Fillmore et al. 1988, Joshi 1985), and I entertain the common image that each lexical item carries with it instructions on how it fits into a larger semantic-syntactic structure, or, alternatively, on how semantic-syntactic structures are to be built around it. My remarks here specifically...

This paper describes a high-quality Text-to-Speech system based on the concatenation of diphonemes with the MBR-PSOLA algorithm. Since it was designed as a substitute of natural voice for handicapped people, it must offer a easy to hear speech, with emotional and emphatic information embedded in it. This is obtained with the prosody generator, which uses phonological patterns and a grammatical ...

The demand for computer-assisted language learning systems that can provide corrective feedback on language learners’ speaking has increased. However, it is not a trivial task to detect grammatical errors in oral conversations because of the unavoidable errors of automatic speech recognition systems. To provide corrective feedback, a novel method to detect grammatical errors in speaking perform...