Intra-gestural and inter-gestural coordination in German word-initial consonant clusters /kl, kn, ks, pl, ps/ is investigated in four speakers by means of EMA as a function of segmental make-up and prosodic variation, i.e. prosodic boundary strength and lexical stress. Segmental make-up is shown to determine the extent of articulatory overlap of the clusters, with /kl/ exhibiting the highest de...

The present paper focuses on the segmentation of two-word phrases containing two closely competing lexical hypotheses. It is hypothesized that the bottom-up information, which also includes a mechanism called the Possible-Word Constraint, is explored first in segmenting these phrases. Non-sensory sentential information influences this process at a later stage and only shows an effect if the bot...

Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare genetic disorder first diagnosed in 1981. Unknown by most primary care physicians and clinicians in the mental health fields, children with KS present with unique facial characteristics, mental retardation, health problems and socio-emotional delays that are often mistaken for other diagnostic problems. Literature detailing the psychological and psychosocial featu...

A basic task in opinion mining deals with determining the overall polarity orientation of a document about some topic. This has several applications such as detecting consumer opinions in on-line product reviews or increasing the effectiveness of social media marketing campaigns. However, the informal features of Web 2.0 texts can affect the performance of automated opinion mining tools. These ...

This article studies the relevance of an historical lexical analysis to the stylistic description of Modern Hebrew texts. The examination of the lexical make-up of two distinct genres – administrative language and folksong – reveals a correlation between the social functions of the corpora and their formal characteristics. The administrative corpus reflects the lexical structure of standard Mod...

This introduction sets the stage for the papers making up this special issue. Its focus is on two major problems in the study of lexical processing-determining the phases involved in recognising a spoken word and identifying the nature of different types of contextual influences on these phases. An attempt is made to decompose the process of recognising a word into phases which have both theore...