The syllable serves as an important interface between the lowerlevel (phonetic and phonological) and the higher-level (morphological and lexical) representational tiers of language. It has been demonstrated that reliable segmentation of spontaneous speech into syllabic entities is useful for speech recognition. An automatic method is described for delineating the temporal boundaries of syllabic...

There is ample research in natural language processing (NLP) on obtaining word representations, including vector space modeling, clustering and techniques derived from language models. Good word representations are vital for overcoming the lexical sparseness inherent to many NLP problems. Much less studied are approaches capturing wider or global context (see e.g. Nepal and Yates (2014)). We ar...

This study aimed at investigating the development of central auditory processes and their links with language skills. Seventy nine typically developing children divided up in five levels groups were recruited among primary schools. The development of central auditory processes was assessed with three main tasks. A lateralization task, a discrimination task and a central masking task were presen...

Abstract Over the last 300 years, into -causative ( he talked his father giving him money ) increased in frequency and lexical diversity. Changes of this kind are often taken as evidence functional expansion. From a Construction Grammar (CxG) perspective, paper argues that what appears to be loss restrictions on verbal slot results from changes argument mapping links. As construction provides r...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

We investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing a novel, story-based computerassisted language learning (CALL) system for students learning Japanese kanji characters. In contrast to traditional kanji instruction methods, which rely most heavily on rote learning, our story-based CALL system focuses on mnemonic stories (following Heisig, 1986) and allows the user to create and m...

OBJECTIVE To describe different approaches to promote adverse drug reaction reporting among health care professionals, determining their cost-effectiveness. METHODS We analyzed and compared several approaches taken by the Northern Pharmacovigilance Centre (Portugal) to promote adverse drug reaction reporting. Approaches were compared regarding the number and relevance of adverse drug reaction...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity of measuring grammatical diversity with a specifically designed Lexical Diversity Assessment Tool (LDAT). A secondary objective is to use LDAT to determine if the level of difficulty assigned to English as a Second Language (ESL) texts corresponds to increases in grammatical, lexical, and temporal diversity. Other methods of lexical diversit...

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the video on demand learning system. This study integrated the thematic instructional strategy into interactive video-based instruction based on the cognitive theory of multimedia learning and investigated the participant’s reflection and learning performance through post-test, IMMS and the experimental teaching activities. Under the self-co...

this paper examines the semantic contribution of -?r and -andeh suffixes in persian based on lieber’s (2004) lexical semantic representation. this framework using six semantic features ([material], [dynamic], [location], [ieps] , [b] and [ci] and a principle called coordination principle studies the semantic contribution of lexical items including affixes and their functions in compounding, der...