The current paper analyses speech data of a monolingual Bulgarian girl (“Etty”, aged 3;11) with protracted phonological development (PPD). Etty's profile demonstrates the strong effects prohibitive word structure constraints on segmental and whole-word accuracy. Single-word utterances were audio-recorded by native speaker transcribed phonetically three transcribers. Data analysed within constra...

The perception boundary between single and geminate stops was examined by regression analyses in 3and 4-mora Japanese words spoken at various speaking rates. It was found that the perception boundary is well predicted by a linear function with duration of stop closure and durations of word or disyllable which contained the single and geminate stops. However, we conclude that the disyllable dura...

Let L(M) be the (factorial) language avoiding a given anti-factorial language M. We design an automaton accepting L(M) and built from the language M. The construction is eeective if M is nite. If M is the set of minimal forbidden words of a single word v, the automaton turns out to be the factor automaton of v (the minimal automaton accepting the set of factors of v). We also give an algorithm ...

Automatic summaries of text generated through sentence or word extraction has been evaluated by comparing them with manual summaries generated by humans by using numerical evaluation measures based on precision or accuracy. Although sentence extraction has previously been evaluated based only on precision of a single sentence, sentence concatenations in the summaries should be evaluated as well...

and hosti 013.06.00 Abstract E-government implementations in developing countries still face difficulties, leading to a large failure ratio. This is too high a cost for developing countries. Analysis of the reasons behind success and failure of e-government projects is still an interesting domain of investigation. Several approaches were advanced and success and failure factors have been stipul...

Among the many factors that affect phonetic variation, two of them, low word frequency and speech in noise (Lombard speech), are linked to stronger or fuller realizations of segments. Noise and low usage frequency are both factors that may lead to perceptual difficulty suggesting that the strengthening due to these two factors may be related. To understand how these two factors relate to each o...

Let L(M) be the (factorial) language avoiding a given anti-factorial language M. We design an automaton accepting L(M) and built from the language M. The construction is eeective if M is nite. If M is the set of minimal forbidden words of a single word v, the automaton turns out to be the factor automaton of v (the minimal automaton accepting the set of factors of v). We also give an algorithm ...