in contrast to the grammatical category of mood in persian which has been subject to a number of studies, modality as a semantic category has not received the due attention it deserves. this study is fascinated to depict modal functions of tense in persian. in a sense, it tries to take account of the structures used by persian speakers to express their evaluation of the state of affairs. the re...

Corpora of referring expressions paired with their visual referents are a good source for learning word meanings directly grounded in visual representations. Here, we explore additional ways of extracting from them word representations linked to multi-modal context: through expressions that refer to the same object, and through expressions that refer to different objects in the same scene. We s...

Chinese is a language that is extensively ambiguous on a lexical-morphemic level. In this study, we examined the effects of prior context, frequency, and density of a homophone on spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones in a cross-modal experiment. Results indicate that prior context affects the access of the appropriate meaning from early on, and that context interacts with frequency of ...

Decades of lexical ambiguity research has rigorously studied effects of relative sense frequency on sense disambiguation in biased contexts, while fundamental semantic issues such as distinction of different types of ambiguities, or influences from lexical meanings’ semantic nature (e.g., literal or metaphorical) as well as these meanings’ degrees of conventionalization, have received less atte...

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS-TTR) with a set of visual classifiers that are learned throughout the interaction and which ground the meaning representations that it produces. We ...

A cross-modal naming experiment was conducted to examine the effects of context and other lexical information in the processing of Chinese homophones during spoken language comprehension. In this experiment, listeners named aloud a visual probe as fast as they could, at a pre-designated point upon hearing the sentence, which ended with a spoken Chinese homophone. Results further support that pr...

The present study was designed to examine the inhibitory processes of spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones during sentence comprehension, by using a cross-modal naming experiment. In this experiment, listeners were asked to name aloud a visual probe as fast as they could after hearing a sentence, which ended with a spoken Chinese homophone. Results confirm that preceding sentential con...

This paper deals with the semantics of the Evidential marker in Northern Ostyak. As far as I know, the semantics of grammaticalized Evidentials has not been studied in detail for the (eastern) Uralic languages, although in the modal system of some of them the Evidential category plays an important role. I will analyze the different meanings of the Ostyak Evidentials, and suggest that the appare...

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS-TTR) with a set of visual classifiers that are learned throughout the interaction and which ground the meaning representations that it produces. We ...