background and purpose: speech intelligibility refers to how speech is understandable by listeners.  this study examined speech intelligibility in children (persian native speakers) with spastic cerebral palsy aged 8-12 years old. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was performed in 31dysarthric students (….. boys and …..girls)  in tehran, 2014. a list of words and sentences were pre...

this research, relying on critical discourse analysis(cda), has proceed to analyze ten novels of modern iranian men and women writers.in the field of lexicon, using marked lexicon and metaphor, and in the section of syntax, using syntactic non – norm in the texts, it has compared active vs. passive sentences, long vs. short sentences, and direct vs. indirect speech with regard to gender of the ...

Sequence to Sequence Neural Machine Translation has achieved significant performance in recent years. Yet, there are some existing issues that Neural Machine Translation still does not solve completely. Two of them are translation of long sentences and “over-translation”. To address these two problems, we propose an approach that utilize more grammatical information such as syntactic dependenci...

Two experiments were conducted in order to study the perceptual discrimination of syllable duration within sentences. Two natural French sentences each consisting of 8 syllables were re-synthesized with 15% increases and decreases in syllable duration up to ±60%. The modified stimuli were presented to subjects whose task was to judge how natural they sounded. The same stimuli were then used to ...

In this paper, we propose a new bootstrap technique to build domain-dependent language models. We assume that a seed corpus consisting of a small amount of data relevant to the new domain is available, which is used to build a reference language model. We also assume the availability of an external corpus, consisting of a large amount of data from various sources, which need not be directly rel...

In this paper we explore a Japanese news simplification task. We designed a Japanese news simplification task, constructed the data set for the task, and analyzed the manual simplification process. We designed the task focusing on sentence-level simplification, which is part of the process of manual simplification of Japanese news for non-native speakers. We constructed the data set consisting ...

This study introduces a methodology for developing an elearning tool by using corpora and computer software for linguistic analysis. The corpora compiled for this study are of journal articles from two engineering fields, and of articles from general science magazines. Each corpus, consisting of approximately 500000 words, is tagged and parsed. Analysis of these corpora reveals that the past pa...