This paper presents a supervised machine learning approach to incrementally learn and segment affixes using generic background knowledge. We used Prolog script to split an affix from the Amharic word for further morphological analysis. Amharic, a Semitic language, has very complex inflectional and derivational verb morphology, with many possible prefixes and suffixes which are used to show vari...

This study investigates the effects of lexical frequency on the durational reduction of morphologically complex words in spoken Dutch. The hypothesis that high-frequency words are more reduced than low-frequency words was tested by comparing the durations of affixes occurring in different carrier words. Four Dutch affixes were investigated, each occurring in a large number of words with differe...

this paper examines the semantic contribution of -?r and -andeh suffixes in persian based on lieber’s (2004) lexical semantic representation. this framework using six semantic features ([material], [dynamic], [location], [ieps] , [b] and [ci] and a principle called coordination principle studies the semantic contribution of lexical items including affixes and their functions in compounding, der...

We introduce the problem of explicit modeling of form relationships between words in different languages, focusing here on languages having an alphabetic writing system and affixal morphology. We present an algorithm that learns the cross-language correspondence between affixes and letter sequences. The algorithm does not assume prior knowledge of affixes in any of the languages, using only a s...

Some reference grammars and cross-linguistic works describe all elements that are not clear-cut words as “clitics.” As a consequence of this practice, the class suggested clitics is highly heterogeneous, which reduces usefulness “clitic” label whole. In response to situation, more nuanced typology grammatical forms proposed here. The argument crucially relies on notion formal “dependence,” esse...

Arabic has a large number of affixes that can modify a stem to form words. In automatic speech recognition (ASR) this leads to a high out-of-vocabulary (OOV) rate for typical lexicon size, and hence a potential increase in WER. This is even more pronounced for dialects of Arabic where additional affixes are often introduced and the available data is typically sparse. To address this problem we ...

Abstract In this paper we offer an overview of the linguistic phenomena that have traditionally been handled by means zero affixes and theoretical debate around advantages disadvantages employing such null morphemes in modeling. While advantage positing is straightforward from empirical perspective (see inflectional syncretism affixless category change, among others), their legitimacy has contr...

This paper puts forward a new explanation for the development of the Austronesian voice system. I argue that both voice marking and the nominalizing function of the affixes are present already at the Proto-Austronesian stage and propose that these affixes ultimately go back to reflexive markers (which further developed into intransitive markers) and prepositions. I offer a historical explanatio...