Recent studies reveal that tonal language speakers with autism have enhanced neural sensitivity to pitch changes in nonspeech stimuli but not to lexical tone contrasts in their native language. The present ERP study investigated whether the distinct pitch processing pattern for speech and nonspeech stimuli in autism was due to a speech-specific deficit in categorical perception of lexical tones...

This paper describes a procedure aimed at automatic extraction of certain noun and verb categories from Polish texts. The general goal is to construct a lexical database that should be incorporated into a system for machine translation and multilingual generation of summaries. High quality processing of inflectional languages like Polish requires quite elaborated lexical entries, it is therefor...

Congenital amusia is a lifelong disorder of fine-grained pitch processing in music and speech. However, it remains unclear whether amusia is a pitch-specific deficit, or whether it affects frequency/spectral processing more broadly, such as the perception of formant frequency in vowels, apart from pitch. In this study, in order to illuminate the scope of the deficits, we compared the performanc...

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...

I propose a uniform approach to the elimination of redundancy in CCG lexicons, where grammars incorporate inheritance hierarchies of lexical types, defined over a simple, feature-based category description language. The resulting formalism is partially ‘constraint-based’, in that the category notation is interpreted against an underlying set of tree-like feature structures. I argue that this ve...

ISO TC 37 is creating a Data Category Registry (DCR) as an online open-source RDF-based resource for use by implementers of electronic language resources, including terminologies, presentational and non-presentational lexical resources, NLP lexica, etc. The DCR will allow dynamic generation of data category selections (DCSs), e.g., subsets of the collection reflecting various thematic domains a...

How spoken language is acquired has been an active area of inquiry in linguistic, psychological, and speech science. New advances in this controversial field are promising given the recent accumulation of large databases of children’s speech understanding and production, as well as various properties of words. This paper explores the contribution of a variety of potential influences on vocabula...

How spoken language is acquired has been an active area of inquiry in linguistic, psychological, and speech science. New advances in this controversial field are promising given the recent accumulation of large databases of children’s speech understanding and production, as well as various properties of words. This paper explores the contribution of a variety of potential influences on vocabula...

Most state-of-the-art wide-coverage parsers are trained on newspaper text and suffer a loss of accuracy in other domains, making parser adaptation a pressing issue. In this paper we demonstrate that a CCG parser can be adapted to two new domains, biomedical text and questions for a QA system, by using manually-annotated training data at the POS and lexical category levels only. This approach ac...