A lexical analogy is a pair of word-pairs that share a similar semantic relation. Lexical analogies occur frequently in text and are useful in various natural language processing tasks. In this study, we present a system that generates lexical analogies automatically from text data. Our system discovers semantically related pairs of words by using dependency relations, and applies novel machine...

In the context of the Papillon project, which aims at creating a multilingual lexical database (MLDB), we have developed Jeminie, an adaptable system that helps automatically building interlingual lexical databases from existing lexical resources. In this article, we present a taxonomy of criteria for evaluating a MLDB, that motivates the need for arbitrary compositions of criteria to evaluate ...

As children develop into skilled readers, they are able to more quickly and accurately distinguish between words with similar visual forms (i.e., they develop precise lexical representations). The masked form priming lexical decision task is used to test the precision of lexical representations. In this paradigm, a prime (which differs by one letter from the target) is briefly flashed before th...

Although vowel quality is an important cue to the perception of English lexical stress, few studies have examined the role this cue plays for non-native speakers. Previous research found that Mandarin speakers had problems using vowel reduction as a cue in English lexical stress production. Assuming native-like perception is a prerequisite to native-like production for non-native speech, this s...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors tested the unique checking constraint (UCC) hypothesis and the usage-based approach concerning why young children variably use tense and agreement morphemes in obligatory contexts by examining the effect of subject types on the production of auxiliary is. METHOD Twenty typically developing 3-year-olds were included in this study. The children's production of...

This article develops a comprehensive philosophy-of-science for personality psychology that goes far beyond the scope of the lexical approaches, assessment methods, and trait concepts that currently prevail. One of the field's most important guiding scientific assumptions, the lexical hypothesis, is analysed from meta-theoretical viewpoints to reveal that it explicitly describes two sets of phe...

The perception of Swedish phonaesthemes and their psychological reality is studied in priming and lexical decision experiments. Abelin (1999) described phonaesthemes such as: bl‘light, vision’ in words like ‘blänka, blixtra’ and fl’movement’ in words like ‘fladdra, flaxa’. Bergen (2004) studied phonaesthemes like: gl‘light, vision’ in words like ‘glimmer, glisten’ and sn‘nose, mouth’ as in ‘sno...

This study is part of a broader project aimed at developing cognitive and neurocognitive profiles of adolescent and young adult readers whose educational and occupational prospects are constrained by their limited literacy skills. We explore the relationships among reading-related abilities in participants ages 16 to 24 years spanning a wide range of reading ability. Two specific questions are ...

A brain-damaged patient (AP) is reported who had a strong tendency to identify nonwords as words on auditory lexical decision and to lexicalize nonwords in repetition, yet who showed a normal ability to perceive individual phonemes. It was initially hypothesized that these findings could be accounted for in terms of disrupted lexical phonological representations. This hypothesis was rejected on...

This study was an examination of the relationship of lexical richness to the quality of ESL learners’ oral narratives. A computational system was designed to automate the measurement of three dimensions of lexical richness, i.e., lexical density, sophistication, and variation, using 25 different metrics proposed in the language acquisition literature. This system was used to analyze large-scale...