To investigate how morphological constraints affect lexical access, results of an experiment on grammatical gender priming in German are reported. In a " continuous picture-naming " (CPN) task, large and reliable differences in naming times were found between pictures preceded by gender-congruent contexts and pictures preceded by a zero-gender baseline, suggesting that grammatical gender can fa...

This paper contains an attempt to formalize the degree of word order freedom for natural languages. It exploits the mechanism of the analysis by reduction and defines a measure based on a number of shifts performed in the course of the analysis. This measure helps to understand the difference between the word order complexity (how difficult it is to parse sentences with more complex word order)...

Morphology is an important part of language processing but little is known about how adult second language learners acquire morphological rules. Using a word-picture associative learning task, we have previously shown that a brief exposure to novel words with embedded morphological structure (suffix for natural gender) is enough for language learners to acquire the hidden morphological rule. He...

The present work deals with two opposing positions on the role of morphology in word processing. Some argue that morphological relationships are simply a convergence of orthographic (formal) and semantic (meaning) relationships (Gonnerman & Seidenberg 2007). An alternative view suggests an independent role for morphology beyond semantics and orthography. These views have tested by behavioral or...

there are different processes to form new words in every language, including compounding, derivation, inflection, etc. in compounding, two lexical stems form a compound. in derivation and inflection, new words are coined by affixation or some phonetic changes. this kind of affixation is applied on the simple or compound stem. here our compound stem is a bound compound stem, consisting of a noun...

This paper examines two contrasting perspectives on morphological analysis, and considers inflectional patterns that bear on the choice between these alternatives. On what is termed an ABSTRACTIVE perspective, surface word forms are regarded as basic morphotactic units of a grammatical system, with roots, stems and exponents treated as abstractions over a lexicon of word forms. This traditional...

Natural language processing has wide coverage in application areas like machine translation , text to speech conversion , semantic analysis , semantic role labeling and knowledge representation .Morphological and syntactic processing are components of NLP which process each word to produce the syntactic structure of the sentence, with respect to its grammar .Semantic analysis follows syntactic ...

Traditional word embedding models only learn word-level semantic information from corpus while neglect the valuable semantic information of words’ internal structures such as morphemes. To address this problem, the goal of this paper is to exploit the morphological information to enhance the quality of word embeddings. Based on spectral method, we propose two word embedding models: Morpheme on ...

The present study aims to explore how phonological, morphological and prosodic features of an utterance affect perception of English codas by Mandarin listeners. A phoneme detection task was conducted with the word-final target phoneme /s/ appearing utterance-medially or finally in various phonological (consonant cluster vs. singleton) and morphological (plural morpheme vs. coda of a stem word)...

In this study, we analyzed the effects of applying different levels of stemming approaches such as fixed-length word truncation and morphological analysis for multi-document summarization (MDS) on Turkish, which is an agglutinative and morphologically rich language. We constructed a manually annotated MDS data set, and to our best knowledge, reported the first results on Turkish MDS. Our result...