This paper documents a dimension of crosslinguistic variation among Universal Free Choice Items. In English, the distribution and interpretation any DPs containing numeral ("numeral any") differs from that with no (Dayal 2005, 2013; Chierchia 2013). contrast, Farsi counterparts mirror each other. Two competing analyses contrast between are assessed against data – Wide Scope Constraint Analysis ...

Previous works on speech recognition utilizing neural networks have often relied on either recognition through segmentation or mapping of the representation trajectories to the phoneme space. Here, information could be missed due to the manner of border labeling techniques. Recent works have indicated that firstly, phonetic borders and transitions would have a good potential to be recognized as...

Stress is known to be an important prosodic feature of speech. The recognition of stressed speech has always been an important issue for speech researchers. On the other hand, providing a large corpus with the coverage of all different stressed conditions in a certain language is a difficult task. Farsi (Persian) has been no exception to this. In this research, our aim has been to evaluate the ...

Despite being one of the most popular tasks in lexical semantics, word similarity has often been limited to the English language. Other languages, even those that are widely spoken such as Spanish, do not have a reliable word similarity evaluation framework. We put forward robust methodologies for the extension of existing English datasets to other languages, both at monolingual and cross-lingu...

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