Dutch listeners were slower to make judgements about the semantic relatedness between a spoken target word (e.g. atLEET, 'athlete') and a previously presented visual prime word (e.g. SPORT 'sport') when the spoken word was mis-stressed. The adverse effect of mis-stressing confirms the role of stress information in lexical recognition in Dutch. However, although the erroneous stress pattern was ...

We propose a method to compute domain-specific semantic similarity between words. Prior approaches for finding word similarity that use linguistic resources (like WordNet) are not suitable because words may have very specific and rare sense in some particular domain. For example, in customer support domain, the word escalation is used in the sense of “problem raised by a customer” and therefore...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that the frequency of disfluencies was increased in difficult syllable structures in comparison to simple syllable structures. according to the results, it seems that certain linguistic features, such as syllable structure can affect speech-motor output in people who stutter through affecting phonological encoding. background stuttering is one of ...

Word Sense Disambiguation is the task dedicated to the problem of finding out the sense of a word in context, from all of its many possible senses. Solving this problem requires to know the set of possible senses for a given word, which can be acquired from human knowledge, or from automatic discovery, called Word Sense Induction. In this article, we adapt two existing meta-methods of Word Sens...

Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experiences are frustrating word-finding failures where people are temporarily unable to produce a word they are certain they know. TOT frequency increases with normal aging during adulthood, and behavioral evidence suggests that the underlying deficit is in retrieving the complete phonology of the target word during production. The present study investigated the neural ...

This investigation studied the influence of lexical factors, known to impact lexical access in adults, on the word retrieval of children. Participants included 320 typical and atypical (word-finding difficulties) language-learning children, ranging in age from 7 to 12 years. Lexical factors examined included word frequency, age-of-acquisition, neighborhood density, neighborhood frequency, and s...

1. Goal of the study The aim of this study is to describe and discuss word replacements found in the speech of aphasic patients in relation to existing theories and studies, focusing on: 1) a classification of word substitutions especially with regard to semantic factors 2) a possible multidimensionality in word substitutions 3) how context, especially type of spoken interaction, is related to ...

This paper presents our system to address the CogALex-IV 2014 shared task of identifying a single word most semantically related to a group of 5 words (queries). Our system uses an implementation of a neural language model and identifies the answer word by finding the most semantically similar word representation to the sum of the query representations. It is a fully unsupervised system which l...

The acoustic properties of word stress have been explored in a number of studies. However, there is little research on German word stress, and even less on its realization in spontaneous speech. This paper tests whether parameters that have been found to implement word stress in mostly laboratory speech are also employed in a corpus of German spontaneous speech. Specifically, we consider spectr...

We directly investigate a subject of much recent debate: do word sense disambigation models help statistical machine translation quality? We present empirical results casting doubt on this common, but unproved, assumption. Using a state-ofthe-art Chinese word sense disambiguation model to choose translation candidates for a typical IBM statistical MT system, we find that word sense disambiguati...