In this paper, we present a word-based very large vocabulary automatic speech recognition system for Russian. Some novel methods are proposed for organization of the lexicon and the language model. Two-level morpho-phonemic prefix graph that uses some information on morphemic structure of lexical units is suggested for a compact representation of the pronunciation vocabulary and search space. S...

We use an auditory-visual semantic priming paradigm to investigate the effect of phonetically-cued emotional information (emotional prosody) on semantic activation of a lexical carrier. In two experiments, we show that words uttered in emotional prosody, although infrequent and atypical, do not necessarily hinder lexical access nor hamper subsequent semantic spreading, and that effects of emoti...

Lately, there seems to be a growing acceptance of the idea that multilingual lexical ontologies might be the key towards aligning different views on the semantic atomic units to be used in characterizing the general meaning of various and multilingual documents. Comparing performances of word sense disambiguation systems is a difficult evaluation task when different sense inventories are used a...

Objectives: Word definition skill is a complex language ability in which meta-linguistic awareness and literacy skills play a critical role. The present study examined the development of word definition skills in Persian-speaking children aged 4.5 to 7.5 years, concerning content and form aspects. Methods: This was a cross-sectional and analytic-descriptive study. The study subjects were 107 c...

The article deals with English legal terms formed the help of adjectives. author points to relevance adjectives in formation due their evaluation capacity which is an important component concepts. reviews most productive affixes used for It identifies usage frequency simple adjectives, comparative and superlative degrees comparison, attributive prepositional postpositional word-combinations.The...

Are compound words represented as unitary lexical units, or as individual constituents that are processed combinatorially? We investigated the neuro-cognitive processing of compounds using EEG and a passive-listening oddball design in which lexical access and combinatorial processing elicit dissociating Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain-response patterns. MMN amplitude varied with compound freque...

Recent models of visual word recognition assume that sublexical orthographic-phonological information is organized according to an onset-nucleus-coda scheme (Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg, & Patterson, 1996; Jacobs, Rey, Ziegler, & Grainger, 1998, but see Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins & Haller, 1993 for an alternative view). In this study we test the hypothesis that onsetnucleus-coda subsyllabic co...

Background. The article is devoted to the study of Austrian specific features in standard literary German language. stages historical development Austria are studied as basis for proper formation. particularities lexical-semantic differences and considered. deals with lexical units due consideration expression meaning word. It established that cultural influenced appearance, adaptation consolid...

We present a method for probabilistic parsing of German words. Our approach uses a morphological analyzer based on weighted finitestate transducers to segment words into lexical units and a probabilistic context free grammar trained on a manually created set of word trees for the parsing step.