Phonological neighborhood density is known to influence lexical access, speech production as well as perception processes. Lexical competition is thought to be the central concept from which the neighborhood effect emanates: highly competitive neighborhoods are characterized by large degrees of phonemic co-activation, which can delay speech recognition and facilitate speech production. The present study investigates phonetic learning in English as a foreign language in relation to phonological neighborhood density and onset density to see whether dense or sparse neighborhoods are more conducive to the incorporation of novel phonetic detail. In addition, the effect of voice-contrasted minimal pairs (bat-pat) is explored. Results indicate that sparser neighborhoods with weaker lexical competition provide the most optimal phonological environment for phonetic learning. Moreover, novel phonetic details are incorporated faster in neighborhoods without minimal pairs. Results indicate that lexical competition plays a role in the dissemination of phonetic updates in the lexicon of foreign language learners.
This package contains data sets for development and testing of machine translation of medical search short queries between Czech, English, French, and German. The queries come from general public and medical experts. and This work was supported by the EU FP7 project Khresmoi (European Comission contract No. 257528). The language resources are distributed by the LINDAT/Clarin project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (project no. LM2010013).
We thank Health on the Net Foundation for granting the license for the English general public queries, TRIP database for granting the license for the English medical expert queries, and three anonymous translators and three medical experts for translating amd revising the data.
This package contains data sets for development and testing of machine translation of medical queries between Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish ans Swedish. The queries come from general public and medical experts. This is version 2.0 extending the previous version by adding Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish translations.
This package contains data sets for development and testing of machine translation of sentences from summaries of medical articles between Czech, English, French, and German. and This work was supported by the EU FP7 project Khresmoi (European Comission contract No. 257528). The language resources are distributed by the LINDAT/Clarin project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (project no. LM2010013). We thank all the data providers and copyright holders for providing the source data and anonymous experts for translating the sentences.
This package contains data sets for development (Section dev) and testing (Section test) of machine translation of sentences from summaries of medical articles between Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish
and Swedish. Version 2.0 extends the previous version by adding Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish translations.