This study investigated the reading accuracy of 59 adult highly skilled native Arabic readers in reading morphological complex Arabic words in 6 reading conditions: Isolated words with short vowelization, isolated words without short vowelization, sentences with roots with short vowelization, sentences with roots without short vowelization, sentences without priming roots with short vowelizatio...

A synchronous speech study investigates effects on pause duration of prosodic phrases of different length. The goal is to examine local and distant effects of prosodic phrase length on pause duration. Subjects read 24 English sentences varying along the parameters: a) length in syllables (long or short) of the intonation phrase immediately following a target pause and b) length in syllables (lo...

OBJECTIVE To explore the nature of diabetic complications in type 2 diabetic patients who had had diabetes for longer than 15 years (long-DM), compared to those with duration of less than 15 years (short-DM). MATERIAL AND METHOD Patients studied were adult type 2 diabetic patients registered to the Diabetes Registry Project, a nationwide cross-sectional study of diabetes mellitus in Thailand....

A detailed analysis of the phonetic structures of Aleut, a moribund language spoken in Alaska, shows how much general phonetic information can be gathered from the investigation of an endangered language. Aleut has an unusual distribution of consonants, with varying functional loads. There are no bilabial stops. Among alveolar, velar and uvular stops, VOT is shorter for alveolar than for velar ...

Many NLP applications rely on the existence of similarity measures over text data. Although word vector space models provide good similarity measures between words, phrasal and sentential similarities derived from composition of individual words remain as a difficult problem. In this paper, we propose a new method of of non-linear similarity learning for semantic compositionality. In this metho...

We have developed a summarization method that creates a summary suitable for the process of sifting information retrieval results. Unlike conventional methods that extract important sentences, this method constructs short phrases to reduce the burden of reading long sentences. We developed an improved task-based evaluation method and applied to prove the effectiveness of phrase-represented summ...

Background and Aim: Degenerative lumbar spine disease can lead to lumbar spine instability. The patients can present with Low Back Pain (LBP), radicular pain, and motor and sensory dysfunction. Age >50, female sex and pregnancies are among prevalent risk factors. The degeneration process usually starts from the intervertebral discs progressing to involve facet joints, ligaments, and vertebral b...

Thisstudy sought to evaluate the learners' achievements with the visual learning style when exposed to the sentence making and word list approaches. On that account, 45 basic level participants who studied at the Iran Language Institute (ILI), Bushehr, took part in this research study. At the outset, the learners were given Barsch learning style inventory (1991) to determine the learners' learn...

1: Linguistic and Epistemological Background 1.1: Generic Reference vs. Generic Predication 1.2: Why are there any Generic Sentences at all? 1 .3: Generics and Exceptions, Two Bad Attitudes 1 .4: Exceptions and Generics, Some Other Attitudes 1 .5: Generics and Intensionality 1 .6: Goals of an Analysis of Generic Sentences 1 .7: A Little Notation 1.8: Generics vs. Explicit Statements of Regulari...