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Semantic Inheritance in the Lexical Paradigms of Old English Strong Verbs
This work delves into the semantics of Old English lexical paradigms based on strong verbs. Its aim is to describe the patterns of semantic inheritance that hold in these paradigms, which present morphologically related words sharing the form and ...
Luisa Fidalgo Allo
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A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics
This work presents a lexical database with cognate annotation and phonological alignment for over 6,500 documented language varieties. The database includes per-family and global phylogenetic resources and offers a pre-computed global tree for language ...
Tiago Tresoldi
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Chinese lexical database (CLD) [PDF]
We present the Chinese Lexical Database (CLD): a large-scale lexical database for simplified Chinese. The CLD provides a wealth of lexical information for 3913 one-character words, 34,233 two-character words, 7143 three-character words, and 3355 four-character words, and is publicly available through http://www.chineselexicaldatabase.com .
Ching Chu, Sun +3 more
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Explaining the Comprehension-Production Vocabulary Gap Through Neural Networks and Cross-Syndrome Evidence: Insights From Williams Syndrome. [PDF]
ABSTRACT The comprehension–production vocabulary gap is a well‐documented hallmark of language development; however, anecdotal evidence suggests that this asymmetry may be reduced in children with Williams syndrome (WS). Here, we use empirical data to characterise the comprehension–production gap and computational modelling to investigate potential ...
D'Souza D +3 more
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Representing interlingual meaning in lexical databases
AbstractIn today’s multilingual lexical databases, the majority of the world’s languages are under-represented. Beyond a mere issue of resource incompleteness, we show that existing lexical databases have structural limitations that result in a reduced expressivity on culturally-specific words and in mapping them across languages.
Giunchiglia, Fausto +4 more
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StimulStat: A lexical database for Russian [PDF]
In this article, we present StimulStat - a lexical database for the Russian language in the form of a web application. The database contains more than 52,000 of the most frequent Russian lemmas and more than 1.7 million word forms derived from them. These lemmas and forms are characterized according to more than 70 properties that were demonstrated to ...
Svetlana Alexeeva +2 more
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Busting a myth with the Bayes Factor: Effects of letter bigram frequency in visual lexical decision do not reflect reading processes [PDF]
Psycholinguistic researchers identify linguistic variables and assess if they affect cognitive processes. One such variable is letter bigram frequency, or the frequency with which a given letter pair co-occurs in an orthography.
Mulatti, Claudio, Schmalz, Xenia
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Strong verb lemmas from a corpus of old english. Advances and issues
The aim of this article is to devise the method of lemmatisation of strong verbs from a corpus of Old English with a view to maximising the automatic search for the inflectional forms, with the corresponding minimisation of manual revision of the verbs ...
Darío Metola Rodríguez
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Why DO dove: Evidence for register variation in Early Modern English negatives [PDF]
The development of “supportive” (or “periphrastic”) DO in English suffered a curious and sharp reversal late in the 16th century in negative declaratives and questions according to Ellegård's (1953) database, with a recovery late in the following century.
Anthony Warner +3 more
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The present paper focuses on ways in which the pragmatic (functional) meaning that arises from various contextual features, known in corpus linguistics as semantic prosody, can become an integral part of lexicographical descriptions as they are ...
Mojca Šorli
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