In this paper, we describe a method for mapping the phonological feature location of Swedish Sign Language (SSL) signs to the meanings in the Swedish semantic dictionary SALDO. By doing so, we observe clear differences in the distribution of meanings associated with different locations on the body. The prominence of certain locations for specific meanings clearly point to iconic mappings betwee...

This paper is a follow‐up analysis of a previous study on the perception of Thai tones by speakers of various L1s differing in pitch prominence. Varying degrees of pitch prominence (Mandarin, tone = high; Japanese, pitch accent = intermediate; English, word stress = reduced; Korean, none = low) globally resulted in the expected hierarchy of performance: Mandarin (M = 87% cor...

Mungbam [mij] is an endangered and underdocumented Bantoid (Yemne-Kimbi) language of the Northwest province of Cameroon with approximatly 2000 speakers divided between five dialects (Munken, Ngun, Biya, Abar and Missong) (Good et al., in press). The goal of this presentation is to draw attention to prominence asymmetries in Mungbam words which indicate that the first syllable of noun and verb s...

Owing to its platform independence, ubiquity and ease of deployment, the web browser is quickly becoming not only a platform for large-scale application development, but the platform for application development. However, the de facto standard language of the web, Javascript, suffers from poor language design, a lack of static checks and a highly verbose programming model. Meanwhile, the Haskell...

Malayalam, the official language of Kerala, a southern state of India has been accorded the honour of language of eminence. Hence the researches in recognition and related works in Malayalam language is gaining more prominence in the current scenario. This paper proposes the use of Curvelet transform and neural network for the recognition of handwritten Malayalam character. Curvelet transform i...

Malayalam, the official language of Kerala, a southern state of India has been accorded the honour of language of eminence. Hence the researches in recognition and related works in Malayalam language is gaining more prominence in the current scenario. This paper proposes the use of Curvelet transform and neural network for the recognition of handwritten Malayalam character. Curvelet transform i...