The central notion of structural linguistics is that of contrast or opposition: The linguistic value and role of a unit cannot be reduced to its physical substance, but is crucially determined by the network of relations that it enters into with other units of a similar kind: phoneme to phoneme, morpheme to morpheme, etc. A mid front vowel /e/ in a five-vowel system is something quite different...

In this work, Morfessor, a morpheme segmentation model and algorithm developed by the organizers of the Morpho Challenge, is outlined and references are made to earlier work. Although Morfessor does not take part in the official Challenge competition, we report experimental results for the morpheme segmentation of English, Finnish and Turkish words. The obtained results are very good. Morfessor...

This work presents an algorithm for the unsupervised learning, or induction, of a simple morphology of a natural language. A probabilistic maximum a posteriori model is utilized, which builds hierarchical representations for a set of morphs, which are morpheme-like units discovered from unannotated text corpora. The induced morph lexicon stores parameters related to both the “meaning” and “form...

We built a pipeline to normalize Quechua texts through morphological analysis and disambiguation. Word forms are analyzed by a set of cascaded finite state transducers which split the words and rewrite the morphemes to a normalized form. However, some of these morphemes, or rather morpheme combinations, are ambiguous, which may affect the normalization. For this reason, we disambiguate the morp...

Previous fMRI studies in English-speaking samples suggested that specific interventions may alter brain function in language-relevant networks in children with reading and spelling difficulties, but this research strongly focused on reading impaired individuals. Only few studies so far investigated characteristics of brain activation associated with poor spelling ability and whether a specific ...

extended abstract 1. introduction repetition is a lingual phenomenon which in various languages and in different frames, has been studied. the whole or part of the base is repeated in this process. hence, in farsi language, repetition is classified by two parts, total and partial. when the base is repeated perfectly, it is called total reduplication and if some part of the base will be repeated...

This research paper investigates the extent to which Jordanian university students majoring in English are aware of different phonetic forms or alternates plural morpheme. The analyzes results taken from 50 fourth-year female and first-year at Princess Alia University College Al-Balqa Applied Amman. They were presented with randomized lists 30 monosyllabic nonsense nouns selected test their awa...

The morpheme analysis module is an important component in natural language processing engines. The parser modules are usually based on rule systems created by human experts. In the paper, a novel approach is tested for implementation of the morpheme analyzer module. The proposed structure is based on the theory of formal concept analysis. The word inflection can be considered as a classificatio...