Does the productive use of language stem from the manipulation of mental variables (e.g. “noun”, “any consonant”)? If linguistic constraints appeal to variables, rather than instances (e.g. “dog”, “m”), then they should generalize to any representable novel instance, including instances that fall beyond the phonological space of a language. We test this prediction by investigating a constraint ...

Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language, which is well-known for its non-linear root-and-pattern morphology. The current paper discusses a less familiar facet of Hebrew—linear operations relating stems and suffixes. It argues for their central role in Hebrew processing and acquisition, and proposes a systematic distinction between root-and-pattern and stem-and-suffix structures. The paper...

The rise of Natural Language Processing (NLP) opened new possibilities for various applications that were not applicable before. A morphological-rich language such as Arabic introduces a set of features, such as roots, that would assist the progress of NLP. Many tools were developed to capture the process of root extraction (stemming). Stemmers have improved many NLP tasks without explicit know...

Hindi being a highly inflectional language, FST (Finite State Transducer) based approach is most efficient for developing a morphological analyzer for this language. The work presented in this paper uses the SFST (Stuttgart Finite State Transducer) tool for generating the FST. A lexicon of root words is created. Rules are then added for generating inflectional and derivational words from these ...

this research aims to introduce culture and thought -within whorfian hypothesis-of the target language to efl learners and helps them get a deeper idea over the root and reference of words and thereby keep them longer in memory. to test the hypothesis orwell’s animal farm was chosen along with two translations in persian as well as a persian short story titled ahu-ye kuhi . required data were e...

It is a reasonable assumption that universal properties of natural languages are not accidental. They occur either because they are underwritten by genetic code, because they assist in language processing or language learning, or due to some combination of the two. In this paper we investigate one such language universal – the suffixing preference across the world's languages, whereby inflectio...

The 2010 German 4G spectrum auction was an unusually large simultaneous ascending multi-band auction. The bidding was competitive, the final assignment was efficient and the revenue was close to expectations. However, our analysis suggests that, theoretically, independent and rational bidders had an opportunity to implicitly coordinate on a low-revenue outcome. Yet, the same analysis suggests t...