DCU participated in the English to Chinese (C2E) and Chinese to English (C2E) subtasks of the NTCIR 10 CrossLink2 Cross-lingual Link Discovery (CLLD) task. Our strategy for each query involved extracting potential link anchors as n-gram strings, cleaning of potential anchor strings, and anchor expansion and ranking to select a set of anchors for the query. Potential anchors were translated usin...

Recent work has shown that by 11 months, infants process sounds differently depending on whether they are in an allophonic relationship in the infants' ambient language (i.e., nasal and oral vowels in American English) or a phonemic one (i.e., nasal and oral vowels in Quebec French; Seidl et al., 2009). Previous experimental work suggests that adults' perceptual similarity and lexical access is...

In this study, we investigate cross-linguistic patterns in the alternation between UM, a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel followed by a final labial nasal, and UH, a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel in an open syllable. Based on a quantitative analysis of a range of spoken and written corpora, we identify clear and consistent patterns of change in the use of these ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a curriculum supplement designed to enhance awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE) in African American English- (AAE-) speaking prekindergarten children. METHOD Children in 2 Head Start classrooms participated in the study. The experimental classroom received the Talking and Learning for Kindergarten program (Edwards, R...