We introduce BilBOWA (Bilingual Bag-ofWords without Alignments), a simple and computationally-efficient model for learning bilingual distributed representations of words which can scale to large monolingual datasets and does not require word-aligned parallel training data. Instead it trains directly on monolingual data and extracts a bilingual signal from a smaller set of raw-text sentence-alig...

Listeners are sensitive to contrastive alternatives in online language comprehension (e.g., Braun & Tagliapietra, 2010). Such alternatives play a crucial a role in the definition of particles like only which have been found (i) to facilitate recall of contextual alternatives (Spalek, et al., in revision) and (ii) to hamper the rejection of unmentioned alternatives (Gotzner et al., in preparatio...

Numerous studies have reported an effect of prosodic information on initial parsing decision. However, whether prosody functions in the same way in adult second language (L2) sentence processing is not known. In visual world eyetracking experiments, we investigated the influence of contrastive intonation and visual context on processing locally ambiguous sentences with L1 speakers (native Engli...

Lexicalization is a process of employing vocabulary for specific purposes. The great majority words refer to things and experiences in the outside world come under category lexical meaning, typically nouns, verbs, adjectives. This study seeks attempt contrast lexicalization two English Arabic prayers stylistically. adopts an eclectic model that integrates approaches, one them Keshavarz's five c...

Digitization causes fundamental shifts in economy and society. These changes will go in line with significant changes of corporate core competencies as well as the skills and capabilities of employees. Due to the increasing pace of technological development in production and service processes as well as the ongoing trend to automation classic educational approaches will no longer suffice to ens...

Generative linguistics is predicated on a conceptual distinction between the lexicon and the grammar. However in practice, lexical and grammatical acquisition are interdependent: phonotactics are projected in part from the lexicon [17], while the underlying form of a morpheme depends on the pattern of contrast and neutralization determined by the grammar [25]. This paper demonstrates a causativ...

In the absence of a Spanish prosody assessment procedure, an English one (Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems Children: PEPS-C) has been adapted for use with Iberian Spanish speakers. The paper describes the scope, principles and methods of the test and the modifications other than lexical translation that were required to produce a Spanish procedure. Findings from the first studies of data ...

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Attempts to profile authors according to their characteristics extracted from textual data, including native language, have drawn attention in recent years, via various machine learning approaches utilising mostly lexical features. Drawing on the idea of contrastive analysis, which postulates that syntactic errors in a text are to some extent influenced by the native language of an author, this...