Contact-induced lexical development in Yupik and Inuit languages

Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Inuit languages

Lexical frequency in sign languages.

Measures of lexical frequency presuppose the existence of corpora, but true machine-readable corpora of sign languages (SLs) are only now being created. Lexical frequency ratings for SLs are needed because there has been a heavy reliance on the interpretation of results of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic experiments in the SL research literature; yet, these experiments have been conducted ...

An Approach to Lexical Development for Inflectional Languages

We describe a method for the semi-automatic development of morphological lexicons. The method aims at using minimal pre-existing resources and only relies upon the existence of a raw text corpus and a database of inflectional classes. No lexicon or list of base forms is assumed. The method is based on a contrastive approach, which generates hypothetical entries based on evidence drawn form a co...

Early Lexical Development: A Corpus-Based Study of Three Languages

In this study, we present a crosslinguistic analysis of early lexical development in English, Mandarin and Cantonese based on large-scale child-adult interaction transcripts in the CHILDES database. We examined patterns of lexical composition for several lexical categories (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) in children and their caregivers’ vocabularies across eight different age groups from 13 to ...

Lexical Semantics and Selection of TAM in Bantu Languages: A Case of Semantic Classification of Kiswahili Verbs

The existing literature on Bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in Bantu languages like Chasu, Lucazi, Lusamia, and Shiyeyi. Thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in Kiswahili based on the selection of TAM types. This is because the sem...