We introduce a novel sub-character architecture that exploits a unique compositional structure of the Korean language. Our method decomposes each character into a small set of primitive phonetic units called jamo letters from which characterand word-level representations are induced. The jamo letters divulge syntactic and semantic information that is difficult to access with conventional charac...

In agglutinative languages such as Japanese and Uyghur, selection of lexical unit is not obvious and one of the important issues in designing language model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we propose a discriminative learning method to select word entries which would reduce the word error rate (WER). We define an evaluation function for each word by a set of features and ...

The ability of Baboons (papio papio) to distinguish between English words and nonwords has been modeled using a deep learning convolutional network model that simulates a ventral pathway in which lexical representations of different granularity develop. However, given that pigeons (columba livia), whose brain morphology is drastically different, can also be trained to distinguish between Englis...

The article analyzes the common names and surnames of women, which are reflected in short stories Vasyl Stefanyk. Attention is paid to specifics writer's artistic work as a representative dialect Pokuttia, semantic, word-forming, stylistic features nouns embodied his works with meaning femininity revealed.
 It noted that feminicon close combination all-literary, Western Ukrainian Pokuttia ...

Speech runs continuously, without pauses between individual words. As yet there is little firm evidence that the speech signal contains usable information as to the location of word boundaries, therefore current psycholinguistic models of lexical access are based upon this assumption and rely solely on phonemic information (that is, they consider speech as an uninterrupted string of phones). In...

Standard accounts of HPSG assume a distinction between morphology and syntax. However, despite decades of research, no cross-linguistically valid definition of ‘word’ has emerged (Haspelmath, 2011), suggesting that no sharp distinction is justified. Under such a view, the basic units are morphemes, rather than words, but it has been argued this raises problems when analysing phenomena such as z...

Three experiments investigated the impact of five lexical variables (instance dominance, category dominance, word frequency, word length in letters, and word length in syllables) on performance in three different tasks involving word recognition: category verification, lexical decision, and pronunciation. Although the same set of words was used in each task, the relationship of the lexical vari...