College English is a compulsory public basic course for non-English majors in Chinese universities, it also called “Public English” undergraduates. Since the Ministry of Education China formulated Curriculum Requirements (hereinafter referred to as “Curriculum Requirements”) on January 2, 2004, series reforms teaching have been carried out by universities accordance with social demands. Based t...

the notion of peace, regardless of theorizations accepted in th field and since the                  enlightenment period, and the era known as modernism, has, constantly, been one of the challenges of mankind, and also scientists in the field of political sciences and international relations.  contrary to the presentation of the idea of peace and respect to the human rights in some of the fore...

This paper describes the work that we did at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad for FIRE 2012. This year we participated in two tasks: Adhoc Retrieval Task and Morpheme Extraction Task (MET). Within the adhoc task, we participated in two monolingual retrieval activities, namely English and Hindi using Lemur and Indri search engine respectively. We submitted a total of 6 runs (3 in English and Hind...

This study indirectly tests whether American, Greek and Korean listeners can classify low-pass filtered utterances of English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean and Spanish into rhythm classes, by examining how they rate each utterance’s rhythm in comparison to a series of non-speech trochees. Such classification was difficult for all groups of listeners and did not support the rhythmic classifica...

The comprehension of natural and synthetic speech in Swedish and American English was investigated using a sentence-by-sentence listening paradigm. The synthesized speech was generated by the KTH text-to-speech systems. Results indicated that sentence listening times were signzficantly longer only for American English synthetic speech as compared to natural speech. Text dijjjculty was found to ...