Whether social uses of language, in concert with their acquisition, are driven by the awareness of the social value assigned to linguistic variants remains unanswered. The present study examines how 185 French native speakers, aged from 2 to 6 years from different social backgrounds, produce and evaluate a well-known French phonological alternation, the liaison: obligatory liaisons, which are c...

The practice, common in fuzzy expert systems, to map linguistic data into fuzzy sets has some important reverse implications: given membership functions that represent different terms of a linguistic variable in one natural language , we can set out to search which of them best matches a given term in another language , on the basis of similarity assessments between individual terms. In other w...

The article focuses on the hypothesis that the structural complexity of languages is variable and historically changeable. By means of a quantitative statistical analysis of naturalistic corpus data, the question is raised as to what role language contact and adult second language acquisition play in the simplification and complexification of language varieties. The results confirm that there i...

Whether social uses of language, in concert with their acquisition, are driven by the awareness of the social value assigned to linguistic variants remains unanswered. The present study examines how 185 French native speakers, aged from 2 to 6 years from different social backgrounds, produce and evaluate a well-known French phonological alternation, the liaison: obligatory liaisons, which are c...

Fuzzy logic control is a methodology bridging artificial intelligence and traditional control theory. This methodology is usually applied in the only cases when accuracy is not of high necessity or importance. On the other hand, as it is stated in (TI SPRA028, Jan.1993), “Fuzzy Logic can address complex control problems, such as robotic arm movement, chemical or manufacturing process control, a...

It is axiomatic that spoken language is highly variable, and that variability can be observed at nearly every level of linguistic structure, from the acoustic instantiation of speech sounds to the the information structure of long stretches of spoken discourse. Many of the chapters in this volume discuss empirical and theoretical studies of the production of linguistic structures. A challenge t...

The syntax of English is largely a solved problem. Yet all natural language projects devote a large amount of their effort to developing grammars. The reason for this situation is that there is no very large, generally available grammar of English based on current technology-unification grammar. The solution is to develop a very broad-coverage National Resource Grammar in a unification formalis...

Since its inception in 2010, the Linguistic Data Consortium’s data scholarship program has awarded no cost grants in data to 64 recipients from 24 countries. A survey of the twelve cycles to date – two awards each in the Fall and Spring semesters from Fall 2010 through Spring 2016 – yields an interesting view into graduate program research trends in human language technology and related fields ...

This paper will discuss issues relevant to corpus development and publication at the LDC and will illustrate those issues by examining the history of three LDC corpora. This paper will also briefly examine alternative corpus creation and distribution methods and their challenges. The intent of this paper is to increase the available linguistic resources by describing the regulatory and technica...

2. Government has undertaken its own urban renewal projects for many years. The Hong Kong Housing Society (HS) started its Urban Improvement Scheme in 1974. In 1988, the Land Development Corporation (LDC) was established to speed up the process of urban renewal. The Housing Authority (HA) has also played an important role in urban renewal, in particular by redevelopment of its own estates and a...