This work explores prosodic cues of disfluent phenomena. In our previous work, we conducted a perceptual experiment regarding (dis)fluency ratings. Results suggested that some disfluencies may be considered felicitous by listeners, namely filled pauses and prolongations. In an attempt to discriminate which linguistic features are more salient in the classification of disfluencies as either flue...

Abstract One typical use of negation is to refer exceptions. In a visual display showing several similar items (majority) and one exception, referring the exception by negating majority should therefore be pragmatically felicitous. We investigated whether comprehenders are sensitive these pragmatic aspects when processing negative sentences having identify according in display. Experiment 1, pa...

This short article aims to provide an understanding that there are several points of view about individuals with special needs. Some these may differ in defining So the optimization a felicitous life for needs not match what they actually need.

The dissertation explores word order phenomena in a ‘free’ word order language, Russian. It has been proposed in the literature that in simple sentences like ‘John sees Mary’, six word orders are equally possible in Russian. The dissertation questions the equal acceptability of these word orders and shows that some of the “felicitous” word orders have a degraded status compared to others. The w...

We developed a type-theoretical framework for natural language semantics that, in addition to the usual Montagovian treatment of compositional semantics, includes a treatment of some phenomena of lexical semantic: coercions, meaning, transfers, (in)felicitous co-predication. In this setting we see how the various readings of plurals (collective, distributive, coverings,. . . ) can be modelled.

This chapter describes the English-language SMARTKOM-Mobile system and related research. We explain the work required to support a second language in SMARTKOM and the design of the English speech recognizer. We then discuss research carried out on signal processing methods for robust speech recognition and on language analysis using the Embodied Construction Grammar formalism. Finally, the resu...