Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Towards speech understanding across multiple languages

In this paper we describe our initial e orts in building a natural language understanding (NLU) system across multiple languages. The system allows users to switch languages seamlessly in a single session without requiring any switch in the speech recognition system. Context dependence is maintained across sentences, even when the user changes languages. Towards this end we have begun building ...

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Culturally diverse attitudes and beliefs of students majoring in speech-language pathology.

Purpose Academic education in speech-language pathology should prepare students to provide professional services that mirror current knowledge, skills, and scope of practice in a pluralistic society. This study seeks to examine the impact of speech-language pathology (SLP) students prior multicultural experiences and previous formal education on attitudes and beliefs toward language diversity. ...

A Structurally Diverse Minimal Corpus for Eliciting Structural Mappings Between Languages

We describe an approach to creating a small but diverse corpus in English that can be used to elicit information about any target language. The focus of the corpus is on structural information. The resulting bilingual corpus can then be used for natural language processing tasks such as inferring transfer mappings for Machine Translation. The corpus is sufficiently small that a bilingual user c...