As our understanding of the basic processes underlying reading is growing, the key role played by attention in this process becomes evident. Two research topics are of particular interest in this domain: (1) it is still undetermined whether sustained attention affects lexical decision tasks; (2) the influence of attention on early visual processing (i.e., before orthographic or lexico-semantic ...

The article considers the speech genre of announcement as a manifestation category information in discourse social networks. announcements music groups are analyzed and linguistic means influence proved. main language distinguished: graphic, lexical-semantic stylistic. graphic abbreviations, numerals foreign inclusions. Of lexical semantic influence, most widely presented news emotionally expre...

In this paper, we describe a unifying approach to tackle data heterogeneity issues for lexica and related resources. We present LEXUS, our software that implements the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) to uniformly describe and manage lexica of different structures. LEXUS also makes use of a central Data Category Registry (DCR) to address terminological issues with regard to linguistic concepts as...

Two studies examined how lexical information contained in words affects people’s category representations. Some words are lexically suggestive regarding the taxonomic position of their referent (e.g., bumblebee, starfish). However, this information differs from language to language (e.g., in Dutch the equivalent words hold no taxonomic information: hommel, vlinder). Three language groups, Dutch...

Lexical plural merges in or below the categorizing head n0. It often yields abundance quantity, as Greek and Innu-aimun. However, it is reported that denotes paucity quantity one language, namely Telugu, to best of researcher’s knowledge. The current study reports Jordanian Arabic has lexical semantically similar Telugu. Specifically, quantity. From a typological perspective, this calls for bra...

We present evidence from experiments on novel blend formation showing that adult English speakers have access to constraints that give phonological privilege to HEADS, NOUNS, and PROPER NOUNS, even though the non-blend phonology provides no evidence that such constraints are generally active in the grammar of English. Our results (a) demonstrate that these positional constraints are universally...

We analyse Hindi complex predicates and propose linguistic tests for their detection. This analysis enables us to identify a category of V+V complex predicates called lexical compound verbs (LCpdVs) which need to be stored in the dictionary. Based on the linguistic analysis, a simple automatic method has been devised for extracting LCpdVs from corpora. We achieve an accuracy of around 98% in th...

A central issue in research on speech production is whether or not the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon is a competitive process. An important experimental paradigm to study the dynamics of lexical retrieval is the blocked naming paradigm, in which participants name pictures of objects that are grouped by semantic category (‘homogenous’ or ‘related’ blocks) or not grouped by semantic ...

stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. all of the words in lexicon regardless of the apparent structure and the number of their syllables have their own stress. given that the regularities governing stress assignment in persian depend on the type of lexical category and that persian speakers have a tendency to assign stress at the end of words, the goal of the presen...