Humans know a great deal about relationships among words. This paper discusses relationships among word pronunciations. We describe a computer system which models human judgement of rhyme by assigning specific roles to the location of primary stress, the similarity of phonetic segments, and other factors. By using the model as an experimental tool, we expect to improve our understanding of rhym...

This paper studies alliteration and rhyme in the traditional Kakataibo chants of Emilio Estrella Logía, one most important sabios present era. For rhyme, consonants which are able to be coda position according syllable structure play a central role. Alliteration is sporadic based on repetition fricative passages indeterminate length. It occurs onset freely within line across lines, latter by ad...

Ambiguity in natural language is ubiquitous (Piantadosi, Tily & Gibson, 2012), yet spoken communication is effective due to integration of information carried in the speech signal with information available in the surrounding multimodal landscape. However, current cognitive models of spoken word recognition and comprehension are underspecified with respect to when and how multimodal information...