Among 7100 languages spoken on Earth, the Koreanic language is the 13th largest, with about 77 million speakers in and around the Korean Peninsula. In comparison to other languages of similar size, however, surprisingly little is known about the evolution of the Koreanic language. This is mainly due to two reasons. The first reason is that the genealogical relationship of the Koreanic to other ...

This mini-corpus, cross-linguistic, comparative, and norm-referenced study intends to render the most frequently and oft-used affixes in the written descriptive tasks in the performance of English language materials developers (ELMDs) and Iranian English language undergraduates (IELUs). Samples of writings of both groups were studied and analyzed through affixation principles. The frequency of ...

This study delved into the application of proper nouns as terms of address in Russian and Persian. In other words, it examined the rules governing the application of terms of address expressed as the names of individuals in different speech situations in both languages. The comparative study of the cultural features of languages spoken by Russians and Iranians called for the investigation of th...

Comparative Issues in Romanian Syntax held at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada; at the 1996 Going Romance conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands; at the 1997 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at UC Irvine, and at the 1997 Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop & University of Maryland Mayfest in Baltimore. I would like to thank audiences at these meetings for th...

This research applies computational linguistic methods for integrating two languages into one intelligent information system. Scientific engineering models accompanied with comparative methods are used to investigate the common linguistic characteristics between Mäori and New Zealand English. This approach provides new techniques for true bilingual based speech recognition, language understandi...

The aim of the contribution is to bring arguments for a description for natural language that (i) includes a representation (i) of a deep (underlying) sentence structure and (ii) is based on the relation of dependency. Our argumentation rests on linguistic considerations and stems from the Praguian linguistic background, both with respect to the Praguian structuralist tradition as well as to th...

This paper presents on-going work on constructing bilingual multimodal corpora of referring expressions in collaborative problem solving for English and Japanese. The corpora were collected from dialogues in which two participants collaboratively solved Tangram puzzles with a puzzle simulator. Extra-linguistic information such as operations on puzzle pieces, mouse cursor position and piece posi...

Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth, we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our linguistic communication and cultural technologies--reading and writing. Why are humans compelled to generate phonological patterns? Why are phonological patterns intimately grounded in their sensorimotor channels (speech...

The ability to repair problems with hearing or understanding in conversation is critical for successful communication. This article describes the linguistic practices of other-initiated repair (OIR) in Icelandic through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of video-recorded conversations. The study draws on the conceptual distinctions developed in the comparative project on repair ...

This paper describes an approach to synthesizing personalized speech while maintaining not only speaker voice but also speaker pronunciation peculiarities. Personalization is realized by means of pronunciation models trained on speaker data contained in his/her speech database. Untrained models allow to synthesize speech in neutral normative style. On the segmental level, the transcription mode...