L2 English derivational knowledge: Which affixes are learners more likely to recognise?

Automated Pronunciation Scoring for L2 English Learners

1. Introduction This study aims at developing an automated pronunciation scoring method for second language learners of English (Hereafter, L2 learners) using both confidence scoring and classifiers. The pronunciation errors have been detected using the confidence measure from speech recognition [Franco et al. However, the accuracy of the assessment based on the confidence scores is not always ...

Are generous people more likely to vote?

Policymakers in the Unites States and many other countries encourage charitable giving through various subsidies. In the United States, for instance, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. However, the net effects of such subsidies can be better understood by exploring the relationship between generosit...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

More intelligent extraverts are more likely to deceive

The tendency to lie is a part of personality. But are personality traits the only factors that make some people lie more often than others? We propose that cognitive abilities have equal importance. People with higher cognitive abilities are better, and thus more effective liars. This might reinforce using lies to solve problems. Yet, there is no empirical research that shows this relationship ...

Which Genetics Variants in DNase-Seq Footprints Are More Likely to Alter Binding?

Large experimental efforts are characterizing the regulatory genome, yet we are still missing a systematic definition of functional and silent genetic variants in non-coding regions. Here, we integrated DNaseI footprinting data with sequence-based transcription factor (TF) motif models to predict the impact of a genetic variant on TF binding across 153 tissues and 1,372 TF motifs. Each annotati...