This paper describes a rather simplistic method of unsupervised morphological analysis of words in an unknown language. All what is needed is a raw text corpus in the given language. The algorithm looks at words, identifies repeatedly occurring stems and suffixes, and constructs probable morphological paradigms. The paper also describes how this method has been applied to solve the Morpho Chall...

This article is in the context of the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) framework, and addresses more specifically the automation of dictation exercises. It presents a method for correcting learners’ copies. Based around Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, this method is original in two respects. First, it exploits the composition of finite-state machines, to both detect and delim...

In this study, we looked at masked morphological priming effects in German children and adults beyond mean response times by taking into account response time distributions. We conducted an experiment comparing suffixed word primes (kleidchen-KLEID), suffixed nonword primes (kleidtum-KLEID), nonsuffixed nonword primes (kleidekt-KLEID), and unrelated controls (träumerei-KLEID). The pattern of pr...

The angular and spectral reXectance of single scales of Wve diVerent butterXy species was measured and related to the scale anatomy. The scales of the pierids Pieris rapae and Delias nigrina scatter white light randomly, in close agreement with Lambert’s cosine law, which can be well understood from the randomly organized beads on the scale crossribs. The reXectance of the iridescent blue scale...

Evaluation of Morpho-Physiological Diversity Durum Wheat Genotypes using Genotype x Trait Biplot Method

A number of studies have shown that skilled readers decompose morphologically complex words upon encountering them (for a review, see Rastle & Davis, 2008). It has been proposed that this segmentation process is early and automatic and is driven by orthographic form, while being blind to semantic content, thus also called morpho-orthographic (Rastle, Davis, & New, 2004; Taft, 2003). One key fin...

Evaluation and characterization are crucial steps in the exploitation of germplasm collections. The Sant'Angelo Lodigiano unit of the Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA) maintains a broad collection of Triticum spp, including more than 4000 genotypes of T. aestivum. Such collection represents a wide source of genetic variability for many agronomic an...

With frequent fluctuations in global climate, plants are exposed to co-occurring drought and pathogen infection and this combination adversely affects plant survival. In the past, some studies indicated that morpho-physiological responses of plants to the combined stress are different from the individual stressed plants. However, interaction of drought stressed plants with pathogen has not been...

The present article reports the effect on survival as well as on the morpho-histochemical changes in the trunk kidney of juvenile turbot Scophthalmus maximus, L. induced by acute action of the anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS). The LC50 of SDS at 96 hours was found to be 7.5 mg/l. Lots of 20 juvenile turbots were exposed to SDS concentrations of 3, 5, 7 and 10 mg/l: the exposure...