Abstract The current study is a partial replication of Flege and Port (Language Speech 24(2):125–146, 1981), which examined the production pre-fortis clipping (i.e., vowel shortening before voiceless obstruents) by Saudi L2 English speakers. In addition, it whether language experience operationalized as length residence in an English-speaking country, had any positive effect on 16 speakers were...

The ability to learn programs from few examples is a powerful technology with disruptive applications in many domains, as it allows users automate repetitive tasks an intuitive way. Existing frameworks on inductive synthesis only perform syntactic manipulations, where they rely the structure of given and not their meaning. Any semantic such transforming dates, have be manually encoded by design...