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Structural Cerebral Correlates of Perplexity: Exploring a Linguistic Marker in Cognitive Aging

PsyCh Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language changes are among the earliest indicators of cognitive decline in aging. Perplexity, a linguistic measure derived from information theory that quantifies speech predictability, has emerged as a potential marker for detecting early cognitive changes. However, its underlying neural substrates remain unclear.
Xingsong Wang, Christina J. Herold, Claudia Frankenberg, Ayimnisagul Ablimit, Tanja Schultz, Li Kong, Johannes Schröder   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Korean "Tense" Consonants as Geminates

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
In this paper, I argue that Korean "tense" consonants are geminates which occupy two C positions in a CV-tier. This argument is supported by phonetic evidence such as a longer closure duration of the tense consonants and phonological evidence such as the
Choi, Dong-Ik
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the Functional Load of Phonological Contrasts [PDF]

arXiv, 2003
Frequency counts are a measure of how much use a language makes of a linguistic unit, such as a phoneme or word. However, what is often important is not the units themselves, but the contrasts between them. A measure is therefore needed for how much use a language makes of a contrast, i.e. the functional load (FL) of the contrast.
arxiv  

The Contribution of Phonemic Awareness and Executive Functions to Reading Skills of Italian Pupils

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Phonemic awareness (PA) refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate phonemes. The development of the ability to become aware of and conduct mental operations on phonemes might involve higher‐order cognitive processes, such as executive functions (EFs), which help modulate attention to goal‐relevant information and support behavioral ...
Anna Cardis, Elena Podda, Maria Chiara Fastame   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oral English Proficiency Tests, Interpretive Labor, and the Neoliberal University

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 543-560, December 2022., 2022
Tests of English proficiency for international graduate students at US universities are neoliberal institutions which make (mis)communication the responsibility of individual workers. While cloaking themselves in a discourse of linguistic expertise, they require test‐takers to assimilate to white, upper class, American mannerisms.
Julia Nagai, Edwin K. Everhart
wiley   +1 more source

An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules [PDF]

34th Annual Meeting of the ACL, 1996
Context-dependent rewrite rules are used in many areas of natural language and speech processing. Work in computational phonology has demonstrated that, given certain conditions, such rewrite rules can be represented as finite-state transducers (FSTs). We describe a new algorithm for compiling rewrite rules into FSTs.
arxiv  

A Gap in Reporting: Student Demographic Information in Academic Universal Screening Studies

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Universal screening is an essential practice in any multi‐tiered system of support, but without understanding the demographic makeup of students in studies that inform current practices, the effectiveness in which instruments and screening approaches work best for students of demographically diverse backgrounds cannot be assessed.
Adelle K. Sturgell, Emily R. Forcht, Ethan R. Van Norman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the lack of palatalization before –end- in the plural of Icelandic nominalized present participles such as Leikandi.

Linguistica, 1980
This paper discusses the velar pronunciation of the root final segments in the plural of the Icelandic nominalized present participles, e.g. in leikend-, the plural of leikandi "actor".
Janez Orešnik
doaj   +1 more source

Phonology [PDF]

In Ruslan Mitkov (ed) (2002). Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, 2002
Phonology is the systematic study of the sounds used in language, their internal structure, and their composition into syllables, words and phrases. Computational phonology is the application of formal and computational techniques to the representation and processing of phonological information. This chapter will present the fundamentals of descriptive
arxiv  

SpellGCN: Incorporating Phonological and Visual Similarities into Language Models for Chinese Spelling Check [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) is a task to detect and correct spelling errors in Chinese natural language. Existing methods have made attempts to incorporate the similarity knowledge between Chinese characters. However, they take the similarity knowledge as either an external input resource or just heuristic rules.
arxiv