Text to speech synthesis system intended for any language, converts the given text in that language to corresponding speech. The major challenge in TTS system is to generate artificial speech which appears to be natural and intelligible. This is essential for visually impaired people to properly understand and comprehend the generated speech. This paper discuss about text normalization and unit...

In translation, choosing appropriate equivalent is essential to convey the right message from source-text to target-text, and one of the issues that may have a determinative role in appropriate equivalent choice is the semantic prosody (SP) behavior of words and the relation existing between the SP of a word and semantic senses (i.e. negativity, positivity or neutrality) of its collocations in ...

The  present study aims at exploring the processing difficulty of cleft structures as a type of relative clause for EFL and Persian as  first language learners.The impact of head nouns with various functions as well as that of embedding on the processing of Persian and English cleft structures has been investigated in the present study.The participants  were 68  Iranian male and female students...

In this paper, we propose a lexical selection method with three steps: sense disambiguation of source words, sense-to-word mapping, and selection of the most appropriate target language lexical item. The knowledge for each step is extracted from a machine readable dictionary and a target language monolingual corpus. By splitting the process of lexical selection into three steps and extracting t...

Master`s degree was integrated into the system of Russian Higher Education several decades ago, however, teaching foreign languages at this level still needs further analysis including the postgraduate law students training. The article investigates the principal components of foreign language teaching in Master of laws Graduate Programs (considering the case of the English language) on the bas...

this article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of sistani persian spoken in iranian sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. a representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. while assimilation and dissimilation a...

Translation selection is a process to select, from a set of target language words corresponding to a source language word, the most appropriate one that conveys the correct sense of a source word and makes the target language sentence more natural. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for translation selection that exploits a bilingual dictionary and a target language corpus. Based on the ...

Cooperative learning has been found to affect different aspects of language learning by many researchers (e.g., Kagan, 1995; Kagan, 1999; Kessler, 1992; McGroarty, 1993). Likewise, mobile assisted language learning (MALL) has revealed significant impacts on the improvement of different language skills and components (e.g., Comas-Quinn et al. 2009; Divitini & Chabert, 2009; Motallebzadeh & Ganja...