Child productions of two-syllable strong-weak words like baby and cookie are observed to exhibit a wide range of implementations of the medial stop consonant compared to adult productions. Detailed acoustic analysis of these consonants reported here lays the groundwork for prosodic analysis of the role of foot structure in the development of production of bisyllabic words. Acoustic details of t...

Four forced-choice identification tasks examined the recognition of words containing sounds that have undergone the process of nasal place assimilation (‘phone box’: /n/→[m]) or stop place assimilation (‘cat box’: /t/→[p]). Identification scores and response times were measured for words ending in unassimilated or assimilated coronal consonants, which were either presented in isolation or withi...

The analysis of author’s characteristic writing style and vocabulary has been used to uncover the identity of authors of documents by both manual linguistic approaches and automatic algorithmic methods. The revealing of the gender, name, or age can help to expose pedophiles in social networks, false product reviews on the Internet servers, or machine translations submitted as manually translate...

We address the problem of positional indexing in the natural language domain. The positional inverted index contains the information of the word positions. Thus, it is able to recover the original text file, which implies that it is not necessary to store the original file. Our Positional Inverted Self-Index (PISI) stores the word position gaps encoded by variable byte code. Inverted lists of s...

The goal of recent research projects on integrating Web databases has been to enable uniform access to the large amount of data behind query interfaces. Among the tasks addressed are: source discovery, query interface extraction, schema matching, etc. There are also a number of tasks that are commonly ignored or assumed to be apriori solved either manually or by some oracle. These tasks include...

In modern information retrieval systems, effective indexing can be achieved by removal of stop words. Till now many stop word lists have been developed for English language. However, no standard stop word list has been constructed for Chinese language yet. With the fast development of information retrieval in Chinese language, exploring the evaluation of Chinese stop word lists becomes critical...

Two experiments examined the influence of phonologically similar neighbors on articulation of words' initial stop consonants in order to investigate the conditions under which lexically-conditioned phonetic variation arises. In Experiment 1, participants produced words in isolation. Results showed that the voice-onset time (VOT) of a target's initial voiceless stop was predicted by its overall ...

Previous research has shown that 20-month-old infants can simultaneously learn two words that only differ by one of their consonants, but fail to do so when the words differ only by one of their vowels. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels in lexical specification. However, the consonant/vowel distinctio...

In the present study various durations of closure, preceding vowel etc. have been studied in meaningful Hindi two consonant cluster words with stop consonants ( such as /s ptah/ (week) and / bd (word)). The data included 80 most frequently occurring clusters of Hindi language. All these words were recorded by five male speakers and analysed using the Sensimetrics speech station software package...