Common English Syntactic and Pronunciation-related Errors Made by Trainee Simultaneous Interpreters

Lexical and syntactic errors in translation by Italian/English bilinguals.

Translation is recognized as a specific linguistic ability in bilinguals. Yet, we know little about what factors influence translation ability, especially at the sentence level. In this study, adults were asked to translate sentences from English (L2) into Italian (L1). We hypothesized that (1) adults with later age of arrival in Canada would perform better in translating into their native lang...

common intra oral radiographic errors made by dental students

background : retakes of intra oral radiographs happen frequently in dental practice although radiographic courses train dental students in consecutive semesters. to reduce the patient exposure as much as possible it is mandatory to reduce the number of retakes both in radiology clinics and educational centers. materials and methods : 3188 periapical radiographs taken by bisect-angle technique w...

Large-scale characterization of Mandarin pronunciation errors made by native speakers of European languages

In this work, we quantify common tonal and phonetic errors made by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese. Pronunciation patterns of 300 native speakers of European languages are analyzed. Tonal errors (30.56%) are found to be more prevalent than phonetic ones (8.71%). Common errors include overemphasis of Tone 3 and inadequate aspiration of affricate consonants. Decision tree clustering ...

Improving your English Pronunciation

Automatic localization and diagnosis of pronunciation errors for second-language learners of English

An automatic system for detection of pronunciation errors by adult learners of English is embedded in a language–learning package. Four main features are: (1) a recognizer robust to non–native speech; (2) localization of phone– and word–level errors; (3) diagnosis of what sorts of phone–level errors took place; and (4) a lexical– stress detector. These tools together allow robust, consistent, a...