a growing body of research has indicated that students of esl/efl are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in english lessons. communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. however, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. the pres...

This paper describes the main improvements we made in two of the basic modules in our HMMbased large vocabulary speaker independent continuous speech recognition system: namely in the acoustic modelling and in the search engine. For the acoustic modelling, we paid special attention both to improved parameter tying at the density and at the state level, and to fast evaluation of the HMMs. For th...

In this paper, we present an overview of the RWTH Aachen large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer. The recognizer is based on continuous density hidden Markov models and a time-synchronous left-to-right beam search strategy. Experimental results on the ARPA Wall Street Journal (WSJ) corpus verify the effects of several system components, namely linear discriminant analysis, vocal tract nor...

This study aimed at examining the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and learning English language vocabulary. The male (N= 119) and female (N= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in Zanjan Province were asked to complete a Persian version of an emotional intelligence (EI) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. The EI questionnaire consis...

the present study is a research which explores the relationship between introversion/extroversion and the use of vocabulary learning strategies. the participants were 80 male and female efl students of university of sistan and baluchestan who had studied efl at the university for at least two years and were randomly selected. the participants were selected after excluding those who got l scores...

the present study was conducted to evaluate data driven learning (ddl) combined with computer assisted language learning (call) as an approach to improving vocabulary knowledge of iranian postgraduates majoring in teaching english, english literature and translation. the purpose was to help language learners get familiar with ddl as a student-centered method taking advantage of a computer progr...

We introduce a new Bayesian predictive classification (BPC) approach to robust speech recognition and apply the BPC framework to Gaussian mixture continuous density hidden Markov model based speech recognition. We propose and focus on one of the approximate BPC approach called quasiBayesian predictive classification (QBPC). In comparison with the standard plug-in maximum a posteriori decoding, ...

Structural analyses of developing lexicons have provided evidence for both children's holistic lexical representations and sensitivity to phonetic segments. In the present investigation, neighbourhood analyses of two children's (age 3;6) expressive lexicons, maternal input, and an adult lexicon were conducted. In addition to raw counts and frequency-weighted counts, neighbourhood size was calcu...