Current-generation speech recognition systems seek to identify words via analysis of their underlying phonological constituents. Although this stratagem works well for carefully enunciated speech emanating from a pristine acoustic environment, it has fared less well for recognizing speech spoken under more realistic conditions, such as (1) moderate to high levels of background noise (2) moderat...

Understanding the patterns and causes of differential structural stability is an area of major interest for the study of language change and evolution. It is still debated whether structural features have intrinsic stabilities across language families and geographic areas, or if the processes governing their rate of change are completely dependent upon the specific context of a given language o...

This paper described recent activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium in the collection, annotation and distribution of language data the developments of tools and standards for using that data, the creation of metadata to facilitate the search for linguistic resources.

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to rectify this situation somewhat by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of Linguistic Science (Očerk Nauki O Jazyke...

the study investigates to give an analysis of literary text through a contrastive analysis of some linguistic form frequencies in the texts. three short stories , two english short stories by ernest hemingway and bruce holland rogers and a persian short story by sadeq choubak, have been analyzed for this paper. the study indicates that, by contrasting some linguistic elements, one can describe ...

the objective of this research was to study genotype×environment interaction and to evaluate stability analysis of grain yield in chickpea genotypes under rainfed condition. experimental material was comprised of 17 genotypes with the experiments carried out in rcbd of four replications at kermanshah, lorestan, ilam, gachsaran and gorgan research stations during the two years of 2003-2004. the ...

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to partially rectify this situation by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of the Science of Language (Očerk Nauki O ...

A potentially fruitful area for applied linguistic research is the nature of the linguistic systems used by second language learners as they learn--or even after they appear to have stopped learning. It has been suggested at various times that the findings of this sort of research would be useful not only to language teachers and textbook writers, but also to our understanding of language conta...

The importance of Panini in the history of Sanskrit language is unequalled anywhere in the world; specially the accuracy of his linguistic analysis is unequalled until modern times. Many of his descriptive techniques can still be employed to advantage. That's why, Panini to whose reverenced authority due respect is paid and whose rules are referred to at every opportunity even today. Several li...