PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test Bedore and Leonard's (1998) proposal that a verb morpheme composite may hold promise as a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in English speakers and serve as an accurate basis for the classification of children with and without SLI beyond the preschool level. METHOD The language transcripts of 50 school-age children with SLI (M...

Applicativization is highly productive in a language like Chichewa. The applicative affix augments the a(rgument)-structure of a verb by bringing in an additional semantic role, which is most frequently a benefactive, instrument or locative role. We show in this paper that the structure of the word can be represented in the form of a morphology-syntax interface tree, which makes it possible to ...

Words are built from smaller meaning bearing parts, called morphemes. As one word can contain multiple morphemes, one morpheme can be present in different words. The number of distinct words a morpheme can be found in is its family size. Here we used Birth-Death-Innovation Models (BDIMs) to analyze the distribution of morpheme family sizes in English and German vocabulary over the last 200 year...

This paper describes statistical analysis results of the corpus for KT{TREASURE (Korea Telecom Train ticket REservation Aid System based Upon speech REcognition). As the beginning of this development, two sets of speech corpus were collected. One was based on human-human(H-H) dialogues and the other was based on human-computer(H-C) dialogues. Wizard of Oz(WOZ) experiment was carried out to coll...

The Morphemes of the Manipuri word are the real bottleneck for any of the Manipuri Natural Language Processing (NLP) works. It is one of the Indian Scheduled Language with less advancement so far in terms of NLP applications. This is because the nature of the language is highly agglutinative. Segmentation of a word and identifying the morphemes becomes necessary before proceeding for any of the...

The words of language contain a nontrivial amount of linguistic information, such as what the word means, how it may be used in a sentence, and how it is to be spoken and written. In this article, we consider the computational problem of learning the linguistic structure of a novel word, as well as that of learning the \overall" morpho-phonology of a language. Our main result is that the comput...