This study has the aim of improving English speaking ability Taiwanese college freshmen by a video featuring connected speech instruction. Forty-eight students from private university in northern Taiwan participated study, which lasted for 7 weeks. Pre- and post-tests were used to assess their performance terms before after experimental treatment. Entry exit questionnaires also investigate stud...

We propose and defend a distinction between two types of self-censorship: public and private. In public self-censorship, individuals restrain their expressive attitudes in response to public censors. In private self-censorship, individuals do so in the absence of public censorship. We argue for this distinction by introducing a general model which allows us to identify, describe, and compare a ...

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience communication difficulties and receive speech–language therapy (SLT) services in public schools and/or private clinics Cyprus. This study aims to analyze the context content of between parents/guardians (P/Gs) speech-language therapists (SLTs) practice. The conducted cross-sectional utilized nonprobability convenience sampling recru...

Private speech used by high-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) (n = 33) during two executive functioning tasks was compared to that of typically developing children (n = 28), and children with ADHD (n = 21). Children with ASD were as likely as others to talk to themselves and their speech was similarly relevant and likely to appear in moments of task difficulty. Unlike ...

The newly founded European Centre of Excellence for Speech Synthesis (ECESS) (ECESS, 2004) is an initiative to promote the development of the European research area (ERA) in the field of Language Technology. ECESS focuses on the great challenge of high-quality speech synthesis which is of crucial importance for future spoken-language technologies. The main goals of ECESS are to achieve the crit...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 421 I. STUDENT SPEECH ............................................................................... 423 A. Tinker and its descendants .................................................... 423 B. The complexities of speech on college campuses ................. 426 C. Public vs. private institution...

Multi-Agent Systems are often used for electronic business. Agents involved in such applications do not want to collaborate and strictly follow rules. In this paper we study interactions between such agents, and we propose a semantics of speech acts unifying various aspects that are generally handled separately by existing semantics: the intentional aspect, describing why an agent performs a gi...

Despite the importance of effective pain communication, talking about pain represents a major challenge for patients and clinicians because pain is a private and subjective experience. Focusing primarily on acute pain, this article considers the limitations of current methods of obtaining information about the sensory characteristics of pain and suggests that spontaneously produced "co-speech h...