The main objective of the present follow-up study was to investigate auditory processing by using auditory event related potentials (ERPs), and language development to determine whether a correlation exists between auditory ERPs and language development. Auditory processing was investigated in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm children and matched controls at mean ages of 4 and 6 years to de...

Analogical Natural Language Processing aims to challenge the current hegemony of the rule-based paradigm in NLP. Traditional NLP decomposes languages into atomic units, whereas example-based NLP centres around the re-use of language fragments. The book consists of six chapters : a short introduction, chapters on background material, analogical machine translation, stochastic and analogy-based N...

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is one of the most popular and thoroughly researched tasks in the field of natural language processing, particularly since it is a prerequisite for a wide variety of more complex tasks. The book Syntactic Wordclass Tagging is a multiauthor collection of articles giving advice on how to use and implement a POS tagger. Part I of the book is entitled "The User's View" ...

This paper presents a computational model of verb acquisition which uses what we will call the principle of structured overeommitment to eliminate the need for negative evidence. The learner escapes from the need to be told that certain possibilities cannot occur (i.e., are "ungrammatical") by one simple expedient: It assumes that all properties it has observed are either obligatory or forbidde...

Morphological asymmetries favouring the left hemisphere in the planum temporale (PT) and Heschl's gyrus (HG) have both been presumed to relate to the typical left-hemisphere dominance for language functions. However, a direct link between structure and function has not been clearly established. The present study investigates this issue by measuring the volume of the PT and HG on the MRI scans o...

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a developmental language disorder characterised by morpho-syntactic errors in the absence of neurological trauma, cognitive impairment, psycho-emotional disturbance, or motor-articulatory disorders. Among the hypotheses that have argued for SLI as an impairment at the linguistic level, rather than at the cognitive or perceptual level, there is a debate as t...

The spatial relation of support has been regarded as universally privileged in nonlinguistic cognition and immune to the influence of language. English, but not Korean, obligatorily distinguishes support from nonsupport via basic spatial terms. Despite this linguistic difference, previous research suggests that English and Korean speakers show comparable nonlinguistic sensitivity to the support...