scholarly journals Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Word Segmentation: The Role of Consonants in Arabic and English

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 494-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itamar Kastner ◽  
Frans Adriaans
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Linguistic Constraints ◽  
Arabic And English

scholarly journals Techniques for Interpreting English Proverbs into Arabic

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Tareq Assaqaf
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The World ◽  
Arabic And English

Interpretation plays a role of a paramount significance in sending and receiving messages between people all over the world. It is of vital significance in the international conferences, symposiums and workshops where the meaning must be transferred and exchanged among the participants. In fact, proverbs are considered as one of the most important elements which are used in speech and need to be exchanged among nations around the globe. However, interpreters usually encounter some challenges in interpreting proverbs from English to Arabic or vice versa due to the cultural differences between Arabic and English as well as the lack of equivalents for some proverbs. This study investigates the techniques of interpreting the English proverbs from English to Arabic. The data of this study are collected from two basic well-known dictionaries, namely, the Lamps of Experience: a Collection of English Proverbs by Ba’alabaki (1980) and a Dictionary of Proverbs: English – Arabic by Kilani and Ashour (1991). The analysis of data reveals that many useful techniques can be used for the interpretation of proverbs. Such techniques are highlighted and graded based on their own priorities. The present study provides recommendations for interpreters, translators, researchers which might improve the quality of interpretation and translation of proverbs from English to Arabic or vice versa.        

scholarly journals Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Garcia ◽  
Gina Iozzo ◽  
Katie Lamirato ◽  
James Ledoux ◽  
Jesse Mu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Distributional Cues ◽  
Larger Sample

We replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional Cues, Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621, as part of a multi-year project to replicate every published adult statistical word segmentation study. Despite a much larger sample than the original (101 subjects vs. 24), evidence of successful segmentation was weak and mixed, and none of the item or condition effects replicated. We consider whether this is more likely to be a failure of replication or a failure of generalization (e.g., to a different population).

scholarly journals Using the variationist comparative method to examine the role of language contact in synthetic and periphrastic verbs in Spanish

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Dumont ◽  
Damián Vergara Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Mexican Spanish ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Convergence Hypothesis ◽  
Verbal System ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
Linguistic Constraints

Language contact and linguistic change are thought to go hand in hand (e.g. Silva-Corvalán 1994), however there are methodological obstacles, such as collecting data at different points in time or the availability of monolingual data for comparison, that make claims about language change tenuous. The present study draws on two different corpora of spoken Spanish — bilingual New Mexican Spanish and monolingual Ecuadorian Spanish — in order to quantitatively assess the convergence hypothesis in which contact with English has produced a change to the Spanish verbal system, as reflected in an extension of the Present and Past Progressive forms at the expense of the synthetic Simple Present and Imperfect forms. The data do not show that the Spanish spoken by the bilinguals is changing to more closely resemble the analogous English progressive constructions, but instead suggest potential weakening of linguistic constraints on the conditioning of the variation between periphrastic and synthetic forms.

scholarly journals The Role of Prosody and Speech Register in Word Segmentation: A Computational Modelling Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ludusan ◽  
Reiko Mazuka ◽  
Mathieu Bernard ◽  
Alejandrina Cristia ◽  
Emmanuel Dupoux
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modelling ◽  
Word Segmentation

The role of stress in word segmentation

1992 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 2443-2443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul N. Yerkey ◽  
James R. Sawusch
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation

The role of character positional frequency in oral reading: A developmental study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunyu Lian ◽  
Jie Ma ◽  
Feifei Liang ◽  
Ling Wei ◽  
Shuwei Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Fixation Time ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Third Grade Students ◽  
Total Fixation

How frequently a character appears in a word (positional character frequency) is used as a cue in word segmentation when reading aloud in the Chinese language. In this study we created 176 sentences with a target word in the center of each. Participants were 76 college students (mature readers) and 76 third-grade students (beginner readers). Results show an interaction effect of age and positional frequency of the initial character in the word on gaze duration. Further analysis shows that the third-grade students’ gaze duration was significantly longer in high, relative to low, positional character frequency of the target words. This trend was consistent with refixation duration, and there was a marginally significant interaction between age and total fixation time. Overall, positional character frequency was an important cue for word segmentation in oral reading in the Chinese language, and third-grade students relied more heavily on this cue than did college students.

scholarly journals The learnability consequences of Zipfian distributions: Word Segmentation is Facilitated in More Predictable Distributions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ori Lavi-Rotbain ◽  
Inbal Arnon
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Word Segmentation

This study looks at the predictablity level of words in child-directed speech, and shows that: (1) languages show similar predictability levels; (2) these levels are beneficial for word segmentation in both children and adults. The study discusses the role of learnability as a driving force towards Zipfian distributions of words.

scholarly journals In-lab Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation:The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua K. Hartshorne ◽  
Lauren Skorb
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Distributional Cues

These are the results for an in-lab replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621. This replication follows an online replication of the same experiment (Hartshorne 2017, Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1. PsyArXiv doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/E5C64).

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