This empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in Sistan. Code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. In this framework Persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

Children learn the meaning of words by being exposed to perceptually rich situations (linguistic discourse, visual scenes, etc). Current computational learning models typically simulate these rich situations through impoverished symbolic approximations. In this work, we present a distributed word learning model that operates on child-directed speech paired with realistic visual scenes. The mode...

Most knowledge-based system development efforts include acquiring knowledge from one or more sources. Difficulties associated with this knowledge acquisition task are readily acknowledged by most researchers. While a variety of knowledge acquisition methods have been reported, little has been done to organize those different methods and to suggest how to apply them within a conceptual framework...

The article deals with the investigation of communicative and linguistic features comic discourse on basis English-language fictional works by M. Spark, R. Dahl, K. Vonnegut Jr, I. Shaw, Carver Barry. author represents description a in terms Linguistic Pragmatics. Extra-linguistic components literary text creating actualizing, which include pragmatic characteristics, social cultural factors, ps...

Abstract This is a corpus study on closure duration and VOT in English voiceless stops in word-initial position. 19 speakers’ (10 female, 9 male) data from the Buckeye Speech corpus are used in the study. The first half of the paper introduces a novel approach of automatically finding the point of stop release in large speech database, using Mel spectral templates and similarity scores. The per...

this empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in sistan. code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. in this framework persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

the warrant of truth has long been drawing the attention of philosophers.in order to find out the truth value one should determine first the criterion of truth. discursive or representational knowledge are related to objects external of mind and so since external circumstances are involved in occurrence of this sort of knowledge, its truth value is diminished. presential knowledge, however, is ...