Velina Slavova

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Is the pure phonemic content related to emotional valence?

Dear colleagues, After statistical processing of a large corpus of English utterances assessed for emotional valence, it turned out that the phonemic content of speech is tied to emotional...

18 June 2024 5,516 0 View

What about participating in an "emotional" sound-symbolic experiment?

This is not a question: We used an emotion-evaluated corpus consisting of 10 000 English sentences from 7 genres. We applied a specific phonemic decomposition based on the phonetic transcripts....

09 April 2021 887 2 View

Could you suggest studies on gender differences in language acquisition related to the level of abstractness of the words?

We found, based on statistical investigation of big samples, surprising gender differences in the level of abstractness of the used nouns, where the general picture matches the time-periods...

04 January 2019 6,662 0 View

What is the energy-cost of information retreival?

If the unidirectional transmission of codded information through a channel to some repository has an energy-cost of 1, should the query-and-retrieval, via the same channel, of the same...

01 December 2017 6,101 12 View

Do linguists agree that French syntax is more complex than English syntax?

Suggestions, please. Do they agree, why do they agree/desagree, do they propose measures of complexity, papers on this?

22 October 2017 6,731 9 View

To what can be due the gender differences in concept formation (first language acquisition)?

We have obtained a reliable statistical result using data from child speech. The result is a bit surpising and the used data cannot explain ithe reasons for it. It came out that in the very...

26 January 2017 8,165 45 View

Why should the reciprocal Fibonacci appear in the approximation of a process?

I had the following: 1/1 *a + 1/1 *b + 1/2 *c + 1/3 *d + 1/5 * e + .. which correlated strongly (0.96) with a huge statistical data of a process (a, b, c etc. are calculated following a semantic...

05 February 2016 803 7 View

Suggestions please, language acquisition by feral children, facts, analyses, studies in child and brain development explaining such cases?

I am interested in the mechanisms that relate the phase of multimodal perceptual concept formation and the less automatic phase of “naming by consensus”, assuming that the second one is based on...

06 December 2015 3,643 12 View

Has someone worked with CHILDES?

There are so many colleagues who have worked with Child Language Data Exchange System - CHILDES, available on http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/. It is certainly simple to access data there but I can not...

14 April 2015 1,195 7 View

Does someone know a tool for Generalized Nets?

l wonder if there are some tools for Generalized Net simulations and analyses like those for Petri nets. I couldn't find. The net simulator is needed for modeling quite a complex problem in...

08 March 2015 1,790 2 View

Has someone worked on how to mannage Bottom-Up and Top-Down information flows?

I wonder are they some formal models, implementations, suggestions, ideas about how do these flows interact and how they are processed using working memory. So, according to me, the question...

08 January 2015 6,787 21 View

Is there someone who has the idea that all human languages have some kind of “performance” which is constant for all of them?

My guess is that the language “information-exchange-complex” {lexis + grammar + phonological issues + everything else} exists in its integrity in order to serve for communication and thinking. Its...

02 January 2015 1,572 21 View