Notes on Fromkin, An Introduction to Language, Chapter Nine
Language Processing: Human and Computer

Vocabulary: (feedback welcome)
psycholinguistics 心理語言學
acoustic 聲學的
fundamental frequency 基頻
intensity (聲音)強度
spectrograph 聲譜儀
spectrogram, voice-print 聲紋
formant 共振峰
top-down processing 由上而下處理
bottom-up processing 由下而上處理
lexical decision task 詞彙判斷測驗、詞彙辨識作業、辨識字或非字
minimal attachment principle 最小依附原則
late closure principle 最晚封閉原則
shadowing 覆述跟讀、跟述
corpus (plural: corpora) 語料庫
concordance 索引
collocation analysis 構詞共現度分析
information retrieval 資訊檢索
data mining (DM) 資料探勘
summarization 摘要
spell checker 拼字檢查
automatic machine translation (MT) 機器翻譯
source language 來源語言
target language 目標語言
automatic speech recognition (ASR) 自動語音辨識系統
speech synthesis 語音合成
text-to-speech (TTS) 文字轉語音技術
parser 剖析器、解析器

transition network 轉換網路、轉移網路
node 節點
parallel processing 平行處理

Links for exercises:
Talk with (1) Eliza; (2) Encarta Instant Answers; or (3) Tom Riddler's Magical Diary (as described in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).
TTS: (1) ReadPlease; (2) AT&T; (3) Loquendo (what do you think about the quality of the Chinese TTS?); (4) Oddcast.com.

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