Techniques for automatic recognition of isolated words are investigated, and a computer simulation of a word recognition system is effected. The following aspects of the system are considered in detail, data acquisition and digitizing, word detection, amplitude and time normalization, short-time spectral estimation including spectral windowing, spectral envelope approximation, parametric and adaptive feature extraction, and pattern classification. A method of time normalization is developed and is shown very effective ...
Instead of dismissing the existence of collective nouns in English on syntactic grounds, the article proposes that collective nouns comprise a contextual or discourse category of nouns exhibiting duality of number. This duality stems from a choice, open to the writer or speaker, of using a collective noun as either a singular or plural noun--except for a few restrictions. The process of selecting one grammatical number rather than the other ...
Hans Marchand has shown that affixal and zero-derived denominal verbs in English, French and German share a few basic patterns of derivation. The present paper demonstrates that these patterns can be found in the definitions given in Webster's Seventh Collegiate Dictionary for noun-verbifying affixes (e.g., be-, en-, -ize, de-, -ate). Semantic components and syntactic structures discoverable in those definitions are collated and clarified to show that some denominal verbs have ...
The prupose of the present experiment was to determine the effect of the amount of information on the recognition of alpa-numeric stimuli. The stimuli used in the present experiment were digita, consonants, rare and common words. In general words were more accurately recognized than either digits or consonants. For digits and consonants, there appeared to be a positive relationship between the amount of information and the accuracy of recognition; that ...
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