was accidentally punctured and died two days afterwards from the effects. His health had been considerably undermined by severe work, especially by the frequent interruption of his night rest while on duty both at the Motlibhai and Sir Jamsetjee Jeejheebhoy Hospitals ; owing to tho deficiency in the numbers of the Resident Staff these calls had boen of lato particularly numerous. Unfortunately ...

This paper presents a method to build CAPT systems for under resourced languages, as Basque, using a general purpose ASR speech database. More precisely, the proposed method consists in automatically determine the threshold of GOP (Goodness Of Pronunciation) scores, which have been used as pronunciation scores in phone-level. Two score distributions have been obtained for each phoneme correspon...

The present study utilized hierarchical agglomerative cluster (HAC) analysis to categorize users of a popular, web-based computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) program into user types using activity log data. Results indicate an optimal grouping of four types: Reluctant, Point-focused, Optimal, and Engaged. Clustering was determined by aggregate data on seven indicator variables of mix...

In this paper we present a study on Dutch vowel production by Spanish learners that was carried out within the framework of our research on Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT). The aim of this study was to obtain detailed information on production of Dutch vowels by Spanish learners, which can be employed to develop effective CAPT programs for this specific target group. We collecte...

Pronunciation, long on the periphery of applied linguistics research and pedagogy, continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech recognition, speech perception, and speaker identity. Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. This cal...

British Columbia (B.C.), the Pacific province of Canada, has one of the longest documented histories of the severest form of harmful algal blooms, paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), along its entire 27,000 km coastline. The first documented case was in 1793 when four of Capt. George Vancouver’s survey crew became ill after a meal of mussels while charting the central coast (Mussel Inlet, orig...

The capR (lon) product controls expression of the gal operon independently of the galR repressor. Previously, mutations of the gal operon have been isolated that are semiconstitutive and alter response to the capR and/or capT product. Such mutants imply the existence of a distinct site in the operon that responds to capR (capT) control. This mutation could be either in a site near the operator-...

Pronunciation, long on the periphery of applied linguistics research and pedagogy, continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech recognition, speech perception, and speaker identity. Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. This cal...

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A system for providing Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training for Dutch was developed, Dutch-CAPT, which appeared to be effective in improving pronunciation quality of L2 learners of Dutch. In this paper we describe the architecture of the system paying particular attention to the rationale behind this system, to the performance of the error detection algorithm and its relationship to the ped...