Affricates have been observed to be problematic in phonological acquisition and disordered speech across languages, due to their relatively complex spatial and temporal articulatory patterns. Remediation of difficulties in the production of affricates requires understanding of how these sounds are typically produced. This study presents the first systematic articulatory and acoustic investigati...

In this paper we describe and evaluate a Finite State Machine (FSM) based Morphological Analyzer (MA) for Marathi, a highly inflectional language with agglutinative suffixes. Marathi belongs to the Indo-European family and is considerably influenced by Dravidian languages. Adroit handling of participial constructions and other derived forms (Krudantas and Taddhitas) in addition to inflected for...

In this article we present data from two sets of experiments designed to investigate how children and adult speakers of English and Kannada (Dravidian) interpret scopally ambiguous sentences containing numerally quantified noun phrases and negation (e.g. Donald didn't find two guys). We use this kind of sentence as a way to find evidence in children's linguistic representations for the hierarch...

Context. Occlusion in primary teeth varies among children of different populations and races. Aim. To assess and compare the occlusal characteristics and spacing in primary dentition among 3-6-year-old Dravidian children. Materials and Methods. The study included 2281 school going children. The primary molar relation, canine relation, overjet, and overbite were assessed using Foster and Hamilto...

In this paper we examine the usefulness of two classes of algorithms Distance Methods, Discrete Character Methods (Felsenstein and Felsenstein 2003) widely used in genetics, for predicting the family relationships among a set of related languages and therefore, diachronic language change. Applying these algorithms to the data on the numbers of shared cognateswith-change and changed as well as u...

Stemming is the one of the most important step in many of the Natural Language processing tasks. Stemming reduces inflected words to a common stem/root word. Stemming process mainly carried out in English language because Tamil language is more complex in structure and more over it consists of critical grammatical rules. Tamil is a Dravidian language, mainly spoken by Tamil. Tamil words have mo...

Automatic text classification based on vector space model (VSM), artificial neural networks (ANN), Knearest neighbor (KNN), N aives Bayes (NB) and support vector machine (SVM) have been applied on English language documents, and gained popularity among text mining and information retrieval (IR) researchers. This paper proposes the application of ANN for the classification of Tamil language docu...

INTRODUCTION Extra-cranial meningioma or ectopic meningioma is a rare tumor. This tumor has been reported in various anatomic sites in the head and neck, mediastinum, skin and soft tissues. We report a rare case of ectopic meningioma in the submandibular region detected by using fine-needle aspiration cytology, histopathology and immunohistochemistry. This case represents another unusual site f...

This Natural Langauge processing is carried particularly on English-Kannada/Telugu. Kannada is a language of India. The Kannada language has a classification of Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, and Kannada. Regions Spoken: Kannada is also spoken in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. Population: The total population of people who speak Kannada is 35,346,000, as of 1997. A...