Statistical methods for reconstructing speech at the phoneme level are used to find missing phonemes that are removed from sentences in the TIMIT corpus. Probabilities for the occurrence of the missing phoneme(s) are generated and the most likely candidate(s) selected to reconstruct the sentence. Method includes symmetric and asymmetric ‘confidence windowing’ around the missing phoneme(s) for d...

. . . refined and abstract meanings largely grow out of more concrete meanings. — Bloomfield (1933) This thesis introduces a new unsupervised learning framework, called AlignmentBased Learning, which is based on the alignment of sentences and Harris’s (1951) notion of substitutability. Instances of the framework can be applied to an untagged, unstructured corpus of natural language sentences, r...

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introduction: the passive sentence structure is one of the most interesting syntactic structures on language development. studies in some languages have indicated that comprehension of this syntactic structure takes place late in the language acquisition process. therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the comprehension of active and passive structures in 48-59- and 60-71-month-o...