In this article, we study correction of spelling errors, specifically on how the spelling errors are made and how can we model them computationally in order to fix them. The article describes two different approaches to generating spelling correction suggestions for three Uralic languages: Estonian, North Sámi and South Sámi. The first approach of modelling spelling errors is rule-based, where ...

Being able to speak and/or understand multiple languages is a ubiquitous human behavior. Over the past decades in particular, an increasing amount of research has investigated the acquisition, processing, and use of multiple languages as well as how variation therein associates with differential cognitive performance, brain functions and structures (see Bialystok, 2016, Bialystok, 2017, De Houwer, ...

In recent decades, digitization has been presented as an important strategy both for the preservation of historic documents and for giving increased access for researchers to such materials. In the Norwegian context, this has not only implied the digitization of printed matter but also the digitization of audiovisual material like photography and analog tape recordings. From a technical perspective, ...

Languages differ with respect to the possibility of introducing a negative operator between an auxiliary verb and a participle inside aspectual periphrases; whereas Lithuanian perfect forms allow negation in that position, Spanish rejects it. The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of this contrast, which contributes to our understanding of low negation in the clausal domain. We propose ...

In this article, I examine the dialect forms of a set of North Saami pronouns – mo, do, so, da (‘I, you, he/she, it’; standardized forms: mon, don, son, dan). More specifically, I investigate where the forms are in use and how the forms have developed. The material shows that the final -n has changed in a number of stages before it disappeared completely. I suggest that these pronominal forms are ...

We conducted a close replication of the seminal work by Marcus and colleagues from 1999, which showed that after a brief auditory exposure phase, 7-month-old infants were able to learn and generalize a rule to novel syllables not previously present in the exposure phase. This work became the foundation for the theoretical framework by which we assume that infants are able to learn abstract representations ...

Este artículo presenta una propuesta sobre cómo integrar sintácticamente el género en español. La propuesta es que la mezcla de propiedades derivativas y flexivas que exhibe el género español se debe a que los exponentes relevantes (-o y -a) materializan una secuencia de núcleos que se dividen en dos áreas diferenciadas, una referida a la clasificación de entidades (clasificadores nominales) y ...

The different distinctions related to lexical aspect –state, activity, accomplishments and achievements– play an important role in the grammar of Spanish, but many of the details about how these distinctions can be implemented are unclear: which features distinguish between the classes, how the classes relate to each other, what is the nature of telicity or dynamicity and how one can account for the ...

Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turkish co-determine one’s attention to motion events in early bilinguals. In an EEG oddball paradigm, Turkish–Dutch bilinguals (n = 25) and Dutch controls (n = 27) ...