Background To date, most literature on Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) has been based English language users. Yet, there are more than 7,000 living languages worldwide with vast heterogeneities in their linguistic features. Contrary to language, Chinese is a classifier which it grammatically mandatory have classifiers present between numerals and nouns. In addition, characters typically an ab...

A lexical decision response to an attended printed word can be slowed when the word is accompanied by an unattended word that is semantically related. Does this hold for an unattended word that is not related to the target word but sounds as if it is? The homophone WASTE can be shown to affect the lexical decision response to RUBBISH, but how does the incongruently related homophone WAIST affec...

A cross-modal naming experiment was conducted to further verify the effects of context and other lexical information in the processing of Chinese homophones during spoken language comprehension. In this experiment, listeners named aloud a visual probe as fast as they could, at a pre-designated point upon hearing the sentence, which ended with a spoken Chinese homophone. Results further support ...

This study considers the emerging issue of consciousness in pedagogy both theoretically and practically. It examines why this issue is of fundamental significance for teaching and learning. Basic assumptions are clarified and the psychological and philosophical fundamentals of consciousness theory explored. Some surprising and counter-intuitive conclusions are reached. It is shown that in the p...

Almost all automatic semantic role labeling (SRL) systems rely on a preliminary parsing step that derives a syntactic structure from the sentence being analyzed. This makes the choice of syntactic representation an essential design decision. In this paper, we study the influence of syntactic representation on the performance of SRL systems. Specifically, we compare constituent-based and depende...

To what extent do phonological codes constrain orthographic output in handwritten production? We investigated how phonological codes constrain the selection of orthographic codes via sublexical and lexical routes in Chinese written production. Participants wrote down picture names in a picture-naming task in Experiment 1or response words in a symbol-word associative writing task in Experiment 2...

A recent analysis of a corpus of spontaneous speech (Gahl, 2008) showed that homophone pairs differed in duration as a function of word frequency. For example, the high-frequency word time was shorter on average than its less-frequent homophone twin thyme. This effect persisted when other factors affecting word duration were statistically controlled for in a linear regression model. However, th...

This paper approaches the challenge of adapting coreference resolution to different coreference phenomena and mention-border definitions when there is no access to large training data in the desired target scheme. We take a configurable, rule-based approach centered on dependency syntax input, which we test by examining coreference types not covered in benchmark corpora such as OntoNotes. These...

The phenomenon of using the verses Qur’an as a mentre (mantra) in traditions Sasak people is still developing today. However, fact that several ways there discrepancy between meaning Qur'anic used and its intended function. These are only because they have same homophone (sound) with dialect or language. This study aimed to reveal how reception use which has phonological similarities (homophone...