Multiword units significantly contribute to the robustness of MT systems as they reduce the inevitable ambiguity inherent in word to word matching. The paper focuses on a relatively little studied kind of MW units which are partially fixed and partially productive. In fact, MW units will be shown to form a continuum between completely frozen expression where the lexical elements are specified a...

In models of visual word recognition that incorporate an interactive activation framework, activation spreads from orthographic and phonological units to semantic units and from semantic units back to phonological and orthographic units. The present research examined whether semantic feedback changes over the time course of lexical processing and as a function of stimulus quality. Using a media...

The article describes the derivational differentiation of proper nouns (onomastic units) from appellative lexicon, their specific features, conversion (lexical-semantic) method word formation and within scientific interpretation this method, onomastic its simple different aspects, toponyms in Uzbek language by conversion, toponymization (toponymization) appellatives are highlighted on basis evi...

Results from a recent neuroimaging study on spoken sentence comprehension have been interpreted as evidence for cortical entrainment to hierarchical syntactic structure. We present a simple computational model that predicts the power spectra from this study, even though the model’s linguistic knowledge is restricted to the lexical level, and word-level representations are not combined into high...

The most recognized unit in visual language is the “panel,” though meaningful units do exist that are both smaller and larger than panels. This is similar to spoken languages, where lexical items can be both above or below the level of the “word.” This paper will address these varying levels of representation in visual language to lead toward a general understanding of what it means to have “vi...

There has been increasing interest in utilizing corpora in linguistic research and pedagogy in recent years. Rhetorical organization of different sections of research articles may appear similar in various disciplines, but close examination may show subtle differences nonetheless. One of the features that has been at the center of attention especially in recent years is the idiomaticity of a di...

We investigated the internal structure of words in the mental lexicon by using a crossword puzzle paradigm. In two experiments, subjects were presented with word fragments along with a semantic cue, and were asked to retrieve the whole word that contained the pre· sented fragment and was compatible with the semantic information. In Experiment 1, we found that any cluster of adjacent three lette...

Saffran, Newport, and Aslin (1996a) found that human infants are sensitive to statistical regularities corresponding to lexical units when hearing an artificial spoken language. Two sorts of segmentation strategies have been proposed to account for this early word-segmentation ability: bracketing strategies, in which infants are assumed to insert boundaries into continuous speech, and clusterin...