Despite a century of research into visual word recognition, basic questions remain unresolved about the functional architecture of the process that maps visual inputs from orthographic analysis onto lexical form and meaning and about the units of analysis in terms of which these processes are conducted. Here we use magnetoencephalography, supported by a masked priming behavioral study, to addre...

We describe work in progress aimed at developing methods for automatically constructing a lexicon using only statistical data derived from analysis of corpora, a problem we call lexical optimization. Specifically, we use statistical methods alone to obtain information equivalent to syntactic categories, and to discover the semantically meaningful units of text, which may be multi-word units or ...

We describe a theory of decision system adaptation in which yoked criteria shifts serve as a simple but powerful mechanism for rapidly minimizing errors without sacrificing speed. To support our theory, we implemented a connectionist model of lexical decision, wherein the state of a word perception network was “read” by a pair of decision units. The response criteria for these decision units we...

Major hypotheses about the processes involved in word recognition are reviewed and then assessed through four experiments. The purpose of the first experiment was to examine some basic aspects of the processing of words, pseudowords, and nonwords, and beyond that, to discover basic differences in their processing that might underlie the word advantage. The second experiment was designed to asse...

The paper considers the peculiarities of origin and functioning lexical polysemy in different languages, particular Ukrainian, German English. author examines discourse Ukrainian scholars terms study polysemic words causes, relationship between meanings words, distinction phenomena homonymy, linguistic functions units. opinion that languages is not an accidental phenomenon was justified. It emp...

Natural language processing systems such as speech recognition and machine translation conventionally treat words as their fundamental unit of processing. However, in many cases the definition of a “word” is not obvious, such as in languages without explicit white space delimiters, in agglutinative languages, or in streams of continuous speech. This thesis attempts to answer the question of whi...

Two experiments investigated the locus of the effects of semantic integration (the conceptual relatedness between utterance constituents) on grammatical encoding during language production. In an ordering-error elicitation paradigm, participants produced descriptions of picture stimuli that varied in degree of integration. For both phrase and word ordering errors, integrated stimuli were more e...

The present study focuses on the comparative description of concepts unreal world in Russian and English. research mythological religious ideas about which is specific to speakers two languages has been taken ethnography, folkloristics culturology. At same time, linguistic this phenomenon was sporadic, both conceptology comparison multi-structural languages. above-mentioned determines relevance...

This paper presents a novel automatic approach to partially integrate FrameNet and WordNet. In that way we expect to extend FrameNet coverage, to enrich WordNet with frame semantic information and possibly to extend FrameNet to languages other than English. The method uses a knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation algorithm for matching the FrameNet lexical units to WordNet synsets. Specifica...

Case mixing is a technique that is used to investigate the perceptual processes involved in visual word recognition. Two experiments examined the effect of case mixing on lexical decision latencies. The aim of these experiments was to establish whether different case mixing patterns would interact with the process of appropriate visual segmentation and phonological assembly in word reading. In ...