We investigated the relationship between dyslexia and three aspects of language: speech perception, phonology, and morphology. Reading and language tasks were administered to dyslexics aged 8-9 years and to two normal reader groups (age-matched and reading-level matched). Three dyslexic groups were identified: phonological dyslexics (PD), developmentally language impaired (LI), and globally del...

The present study investigated the neural correlates of morphological priming in overt Dutch language production using a long-lag priming paradigm. Compound words were read out loud as primes that were morphologically related to picture names (e.g. the word jaszak, 'coat pocket' was used for a picture of a coat; Dutch jas), or primes were form-related, but not morphologically related monomorphe...

This paper presents a framework for unsupervised natural language morphology induction wherein candidate suffixes are grouped into candidate inflection classes, which are then arranged in a lattice structure. With similar candidate inflection classes placed near one another in the lattice, I propose this structure is an ideal search space in which to isolate the true inflection classes of a lan...

Number words allow us to describe exact quantities like sixty-three and (exactly) one. How do we derive interpretations? By some views, these are lexically exact, therefore unlike other grammatical forms in language. Other theories, however, argue that numbers not special their interpretation arises from pragmatic enrichment, rather than lexically. For example, the word one may gain its because...

English) This thesis describes two applications of functional programming to process formal and natural languages. The techniques described in this thesis are closely connected to compiler construction, which is obvious in the work on BNF Converter. The first part of the thesis describes the BNFC (the BNF Converter) application, a multi-lingual compiler tool. BNFC takes as its input a grammar w...

This paper discusses the emergence of a hortative marker in Guaraché, new mixed language Paraguay, result mixing Indigenous Aché and Paraguayan Guaraní. After settlement on reservations, formerly nomadic hunter-gatherers began shifting to national Guaraní, resulting which is currently learned by children as their first language. Guaraché speakers have incorporated parts lexicon morphology from ...

What is the relation between language and thought? Specifically, how do linguistic and conceptual representations make contact during language learning? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the acquisition of evidentiality (the linguistic encoding of information source) and its relation to children's evidential reasoning. Previous studies have hypothesized that the acquisition ...