This study focuses on the linear order of yes/no-question particle mI in Turkish. The distribution is intriguing, since it must reverse with immediately adjacent morpheme unless follows verb root. To account for such a distribution, attributed to interaction between two post-syntactic concatenation statements under adjacency (Local Dislocation Embick 2007). Assuming that question spells out C[+...

Morpho Challenge is an annual evaluation campaign for unsupervised morpheme analysis. In morpheme analysis, words are segmented into smaller meaningful units. This is an essential part in processing complex word forms in many large-scale natural language processing applications, such as speech recognition, information retrieval, and machine translation. The discovery of morphemes is particularl...

Morphemes often behave differently phonologically in ways that cannot be explained purely phonologically: one morpheme undergoes or triggers a process while another morpheme fails to undergo or trigger that process, even though the two are in all relevant respects indistinguishable. Piro syncope (Matteson 1965, Kisseberth 1970, Lin 1997) provides an example of such morpheme-specific phonology. ...

This paper describes the Korean speech corpus for train ticket reservation aid system based on speech recognition. Two sets of speech corpus were collected. One was based on human-human(H-H) dialogues and the other was based on human-computer(H-C) dialogues. WOZ(Wizard of Oz) experiment was carried out to collect speech corpus based on H-C spoken dialogue. A total of 298 speaker data was collec...

In this talk we will explore the syntactic structure of the " phrasal " Mandarin bi comparative. We aim to: • motivate the Mandarin comparative morpheme bi as a v head; • argue against Liu's (1996) PP analysis and Xiang's (2005) DegP analysis on syntactic grounds; • explore a neo-Davidsonian event-based conceptualization of comparison. A comparative generally involves two things to be compared,...

This article describes the design and the experimental evaluation of the first Hungarian large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system. The architecture of the recognition system is based on the recently proposed weighted finite state transducer (WFST) paradigm. The task domain is the recognition of fluently read sentences selected from a major daily newspaper. Recognition perfo...

This article describes the design and the experimental evaluation of the first Hungarian large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system. The architecture of the recognition system is based on the recently proposed weighted finite state transducer (WFST) paradigm. The task domain is the recognition of fluently read sentences selected from a major daily newspaper. Recognition perfo...

Over the past decades an extraordinary amount of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research has been carried out with the aim of understanding the nature of lexical representations and how these representations are accessed as we listen to or read words. The question that drives much of this research is whether the language processing system has access to a morpheme-based route to recognize ...

This study investigates semantic constraints affecting the order of motion morphemes in Mandarin multi-morpheme motion constructions (e.g., tui-hui recede-return). It classifies Chinese motion morphemes into three major types and proposes a “Scalar Specificity Constraint” to account for the order in multi-morpheme motion constructions. The constraint not only provides a better coverage of the d...