Our internal repository of words, often known as the mental lexicon, has primarily been modelled by psychologists as some kind of network. One way to probe its organisation and access mechanisms is by means of word association techniques, which have rarely been applied on Chinese. This paper reports on the design and implementation of a pilot word association test on native Hong Kong Cantonese ...

Language acquisition addresses two important text processing issues. The immediate problem is understanding a text in spite of the existence of lexical gaps. The long term issue is that the understander must incorporate new words into its lexicon for future use. This paper describes an approach to constructing new lexical entries in a gradual process by analyzing a sequence of example texts. Th...

Work is progressing on a keyword lexicon aimed at enabling the synthesis of various regional accents of English. This paper focuses on a particular issue, that of vowels before orthographic 'r'. These vowels are discussed with respect to rhotic and nonrhotic accents, in terms of both keyword sets and phonetic realisation. Criteria for the use of keysymbols are discussed, and it is noted that th...

Levin and Rappaport (1995, henceforth L&R) argue that the distribution of the English causative alternation is predicted by the internal/external causation distinction. For L&R this distinction is represented in lexical conceptual structure. In this paper I argue that representing this distinction in the syntax, rather than in the lexicon, allows a crosslinguistically more satisfying theory of ...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of lexicon-based debates on the felicity of lexical equivalents in translating literary texts by iranian efl learners.  to fulfill the purpose of this study, 59 university students, majoring in english translation, were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups from a total of 73 students based on their performance on a mock toe...

Listeners use lexical information and the speech signal to categorize sounds recognize words despite substantial acoustic-phonetic variation in natural speech. In diachronic mergers, where systematic acts neutralize contrasts, role of lexicon becomes less clear. We examined how competition structures phonetic variability (merging) tone categories Cantonese using three experiments. categorized t...

this research, relying on critical discourse analysis(cda), has proceed to analyze ten novels of modern iranian men and women writers.in the field of lexicon, using marked lexicon and metaphor, and in the section of syntax, using syntactic non – norm in the texts, it has compared active vs. passive sentences, long vs. short sentences, and direct vs. indirect speech with regard to gender of the ...

State-of-the-art speech recognition systems rely heavily on three basic components: an acoustic model, a pronunciation lexicon and a language model. To build these components, a researcher needs linguistic as well as technical expertise, which is a barrier in lowresource domains. Techniques to construct these three components without having expert domain knowledge are in great demand. Urdu, des...