This research is conducted to reveal the strategy of humour construction dealing with phonological exploitation in Mind Your Language situation comedy. a British comedy television series that portrays learning process by immigrants coming from various countries. Varieties cultures and levels English knowledge naturally influence creation characters. The data were taken humourous utterances seas...

Perspectival utterances are analyzed within Situation Semantics framework. Perspectival expressions are expressions speakers use when they describe facts from certain standpoints within their environments. Uses of perspecti-val expressions have two significant characteristics , bi-directional contextual dependency, and perspectivity transfer. Relational conception of meaning and mental states c...

How can an automated tutor detect children’s off-task utterances? To answer this question, we trained SVM classifiers on a corpus of 495 children’s 36,492 computerassisted oral reading utterances. On a test set of 620 utterances by 10 held-out readers, the classifier correctly detected 88% of off-task utterances and misclassified 17% of on-task utterances as off-task. As a test of generality, w...

Hemisphere asymmetry in phoneme perception was analyzed. Three basic mechanisms underlying phoneme perception are proposed. Left temporal lobe would be specialized in: (1) ultrashort auditory (echoic) memory; (2) higher resolution power for some language frequencies; and (3) recognition of rapidly changing and time-dependent auditory signals. An attempt was made to apply some neurophysiological...

A 38 year old woman was thought to have bilateral polycystic ovaries and an absence of pelvic or abdominal adhesions at diagnostic laparoscopy. Post-operative transvaginal ultrasound noted bilateral homogeneous hypo-echoic masses with low-level echoes consistent with endometriomas. Transvaginal aspiration was unsuccessful due to the viscosity of the cyst contents. At second laparoscopy severe a...

We recently introduced a computationally efficient system for tracking formants. It combines a biologically inspired preprocessing for enhancing formants in spectrograms with a probabilistic framework for estimating formant trajectories. In contrast to previously published approaches our tracking scheme relies on the joint distribution of formants rather than using independent tracking instance...

Ultrasonography and Contrast enhanced CT done in a 12 year old female, which shows wedge shaped hypo echoic lesions extending from periphery to hilum with no evidence of vascularity within. On follow-up plain these lesion appear dense areas non-enhancement post contrasting. Patient presented complaints fever pain left hypochondria. Antibiotic course Ceftriaxone was given following patient sympt...