Telemeetings such as audiovisual conferences or virtual meetings play an increasingly
important role in our professional and private lives. For that reason, system developers and …

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Abstract We present the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA), a new opensource system for
speech-text alignment. MFA is an update to the Prosodylab-Aligner, and maintains its key …

Background Speech of individuals with non-fluent, including Broca's, aphasia is often
characterized as “agrammatic” because their output mostly consists of nouns and, to a lesser …

This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the
general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of …

It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in
some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …

Past research has demonstrated cross-linguistic, cross-modal, and task-dependent
differences in neighborhood density effects, indicating a need to control for neighborhood …

ASL-LEX is a lexical database that catalogues information about nearly 1,000 signs in
American Sign Language (ASL). It includes the following information: subjective frequency …

Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …

ASL-LEX is a publicly available, large-scale lexical database for American Sign Language
(ASL). We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs …