In this paper, we report on our attempt at assigning semantic information from the English FrameNet to lexical units in the Bulgarian valency lexicon. The paper briefly presents the model underlying the Bulgarian FrameNet (BulFrameNet): each lexical entry consists of a lexical unit; a semantic frame from the English FrameNet, expressing abstract semantic structure; a grammatical class, defining...

PURPOSE To explore whether individuals with aphasia exhibit differences in the M350, an electrophysiological marker of lexical activation, compared with healthy controls. METHOD Seven people with aphasia, 9 age-matched controls, and 10 younger controls completed an auditory lexical decision task while cortical activity was recorded with magnetoencephalography. There were 2 stimulus conditions...

Qualitative and quantitative differences in semantic priming for native and nonnative speaker groups were explored using a primed lexical decision task. In addition to response time data, coefficient of variance (CV) for response times was used to investigate quantitative differences in lexical processing between groups. Segalowitz and Segalowitz (1993) argued that differences in CV indicate pr...

PURPOSE This study examined the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on the early lexical performance of African American children. METHOD Thirty African American toddlers (30 to 40 months old) from low-SES (n = 15) and middle-SES (n = 15) backgrounds participated in the study. Their lexical-semantic performance was examined on 2 norm-referenced standardized tests of vocabulary, a measure of ...

a bilingual corpus is considered as a very important knowledge source and an inevitable requirement for many natural language processing (nlp) applications in which two languages are involved. for some languages such as persian, lack of such resources is much more significant. several applications, including statistical and example-based machine translation needs bilingual corpora, in which lar...

The lexical layer of a language is determined by the way life, culture, level thinking, worldview people who speak this language. While concrete words embody ethnoculture and life people, abstract name worldview, thinking cer-tain ethical, aesthetic, cultural, spiritual concepts norms. This article analyzes names’ meanings state in Uzbek lan-guage. Their semantic groups, structure, development ...