Morphology is a major organising principle of English and other alphabetic languages, but has been largely neglected in theories of reading acquisition. In this article, I develop the view that learning to appreciate morphological relationships may be a vital part of acquiring a direct mapping between printed words and their meanings, represented in the ventral brain pathway of the reading netw...

In this work we study morphological methods to reduce the amount of redundant points in the Skeleton representation of images. The advantage of removing redundant points using morphological operations only, lies in the computational eeciency of these operations, when implemented on parallel machines. We present a generic approach to obtain redundancy-reduced Skeletons, which yields morphologica...

This paper demonstrates how the challenging problem of the Arabic broken plurals and diminutive can be handled under a multi-tape two-level model, an extension to two-level morphology.

The present study explores the production of bound morphemes in the speech of a nine-year old Greek child with moderate hearing impairment (HI). Data were obtained through the child’s responses to subtests from the Diagnostic Verbal IQ Test (DVIQ, Stavrakaki et al. 2000) and samples of her speech. The analysis concerned the inflection of nouns, adjectives and verbs. The results showed that, eve...

A common observation in studies of inflectional morphology is that words which are atypical members of their syntactic class often take a regular inflection, independent of their phonology. For example, in English we would say that the plural of the surname mann is manns although it has the same phonology as the noun man which has the irregular plural men. The same goes for the borrowed word ta...

Thc aim of this papcr is to propound an algorithn~ic approach of thc mathcmatical morphology compatible with a continuous acquisition of the image by a lincar camcra.1n accordance with the three fondanlcntal axis dcfincd hy an hexagonal frarnc , the basic twodirncnsional n~orphological transforn~atioos arc dccomposcd into lincar proccssings tl~at can bc exccutcd in parallcl This mcthod offers n...

ON THE SYSTEMATIC ASPECT OF IDIOMS Martha McGinnis University of Calgary It has traditionally been assumed that the meaning of some or all phrasal idioms is noncompositional. However, I will argue here that the aspectual meaning of idioms is completely systematic: there are no special aspectual restrictions on idioms, and moreover, the aspect of an idiom is compositional, combining the aspectua...

A method for the elimination of cracks in infrared reflectograms is presented. Infrared reflectograms show the underdrawing – the basic concept of the artist drawn on the ground layer – in ancient wood panel paintings. Caused by different mechanical behaviour of the panel and the covering ground layer during the aging of the painting, cracks appear. Cracks not only disturb the appearance of a p...