Reading is a complex skill that has been acquired only recently in the evolution of humans. This fascinating ability has motivated many neuropsychological models. In particular, it has been proposed that reading is sustained by two parallel and complementary systems (see for example Epelbaum et al., 2008 for a plausible anatomical implementation of this model): a lexico-semantic one and a phono...

The role that lexical storage and computation play in the processing ofmorphologically complex words is highly debated. Thus far, studies that contrastthese processes have yielded widely varying results. At present, three viewpointspredominate: (1) the full storage model, in which all known words are storedseparately in the mental lexicon, (2) the full parsing model, in which al...

The Practical Lexical Function (PLF) model is a model of computational distributional semantics that attempts to strike a balance between expressivity and learnability in predicting phrase meaning and shows competitive results. We investigate how well the PLF carries over to free word order languages, given that it builds on observations of predicate-argument combinations that are harder to rec...

The degree to which the MTL system contributes to effective language skills is not well delineated. We sought to determine if the MTL plays a role in single-word decoding in healthy, normal skilled readers. The experiment follows from the implications of the dual-process model of single-word decoding, which provides distinct predictions about the nature of MTL involvement. The paradigm utilized...

Against longstanding assumptions in the psycholinguistics literature, we argue for a model of morphological complexity that has all complex words assembled by the grammar from lexical roots and functional morphemes. This assembly occurs even for irregular forms like gave. Morphological relatedness is argued to be an identity relation between repetitions of a single root, distinguishable from se...

Against longstanding assumptions in the psycholinguistics literature, we argue for a model of morphological complexity that has all complex words assembled by the grammar from lexical roots and functional morphemes. This assembly occurs even for irregular forms like gave. Morphological relatedness is argued to be an identity relation between repetitions of a single root, distinguishable from se...

Recently, many studies have been focused on extracting transliteration pairs from bilingual texts. Most of these studies are based on the statistical transliteration model. The paper discusses the limitations of previous approaches and proposes novel approaches called dynamic window and tokenizer to overcome these limitations. Experimental results show that the average rates of word and charact...