Pidgin languages across the world are characterized by a universal set of linguistic features that, therefore, can be utilized for their identification. Among these linguistic traits, two are found in Gulf Arabic Pidgin (GPA); an overt reduction of sophisticated linguistic items and an increased regularity of less complicated linguistic items used to fulfill other linguistic functions (Nass, 20...

Errors in the production of verb inflections, especially tense inflections, are pervasive in agrammatic Broca's aphasia (*The boy eat). The neurolinguistic underpinnings of these errors are debated. One group of theories attributes verb inflection errors to disruptions in encoding the verb's morphophonological form, resulting from either a general phonological deficit or a morphological affixat...

Within current surface-oriented lexical frameworks, the standard approach to cliticization phenomena in Romance assumes that affixation of pronominal clitics to their verbal hosts should be conceived of as an instance of lexical alternation. Consequently, under the analyses proposed by e.g. Miller and Sag (1995) and Monachesi (1996) these phenomena are dealt with in terms of lexical rules. This...

In this paper we propose a computational model for the representation and processing of morpho-phonological phenomena in a natural language, like Modern Greek. We aim at a unified treatment of inflection, compounding, and word-internal phonological changes, in a model that is used for both analysis and generation. After discussing certain difficulties cuase by well-known finitestate approaches,...

This article introduces a novel approach to model phonology and morphosyntax in morpheme unit based speech recognizers. The proposed method is evaluated in our recent Hungarian large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system. The architecture of the recognition system is based on the weighted finite state transducer (WFST) paradigm. The task domain is the recognition of fluently r...

Kanamycin sulphate (KS) is a Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein synthesis inhibitor. Due to its intense hydrophilicity, KS is cleared from the body within 8 h. KS has a very short plasma half-life (2.5 h). KS is used in high concentrations to reach the therapeutic levels in plasma, which results in serious nephrotoxicity/ototoxicity. To overcome aforementioned limitations, the current study aim...

The present paper examines the prosodic constituent Foot as the domain of phonological phenomena in German. Several processes take place in this constituent, such as Glottal Stop Insertion and Final Devoicing, as well as the phenomena that are described below: productive umlaut and infinitive inflection. The status of the trochaic Foot as the unmarked constituent in German is also discussed. Th...

This paper presents a case of patterned exceptionality. The case is Tagalog nasal substitution, a phenomenon in which a prefix-final nasal fuses with a steminitial obstruent. The rule is variable on a word-by-word basis, but its distribution is phonologically patterned, as shown through dictionary and corpus data. Speakers appear to have implicit knowledge of the patterning, as shown through ex...

Antonym pair members can be differentiated by each word's markedness-that distinction attributable to the presence or absence of features at morphological or semantic levels. Morphologically marked words incorporate their unmarked counterpart with additional morphs (e.g., "unlucky" vs. "lucky"); properties used to determine semantically marked words (e.g., "short" vs. "long") are less clearly d...

This paper gives a brief history of UTMK, a computer-aided translation unit, and reports on her projects and research co-operations. After its beginnings as a thesis project on Malay affixation, UTMK’s interest moved from machine translation to the development of tools for translation. Today, UTMK’s focus is on the development of natural language processing applications and tools (internet brow...