PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young African American English (AAE)-speaking children's understanding and awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE). METHOD Eighty-three 4- to 8-year-old AAE-speaking children participated in 2 experimental tasks. One task evaluated their awareness of differences between MAE an...

PURPOSE This study provides milestones for phonological development in African American English (AAE) speakers who are learning Mainstream American English (MAE) as a second dialect. METHOD The Dialect Sensitive Language Test (DSLT; H. Seymour, T. Roeper, & J. G. de Villiers, 2000) was administered to a nationwide sample of typically developing children ages 4 through 12: 537 speakers of AAE ...

The purpose of the present study is to compare the ASR performance when Swedish people speaking Swedish and English under time-stress and due-task performance. Fifteen university students (20 to 40 years of age, native Swedish language speaking) participated in the experiment. Three factors were studied: time-stress, which was manipulated by PWSP program. Two models of presenting the commands, ...

BACKGROUND The European Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth (QoLISSY) is a novel condition-specific instrument developed to assess health related quality of life (HrQoL) in children/adolescents with short stature from patient and parent perspectives. Study objective was to linguistically validate and psychometrically test the American-English version of the QoLISSY instrument. METHODS Upon...

Since 1955 at least forty articles on geriatric anaesthesia and associated problems have appeared in the literature. Fifteen of these have been written in English and the others in European languages, mostly German and Italian. Fourteen of the fifteen English articles have originated from North America. To the best of the writer's knowledge this leaves Bedford's (1955) contribution as one of th...

this study explores the use of the english locution i love you in the american context. the data were collected through a focus discussion group and a survey questionnaire. 120 college undergraduate students from a large public american university participated in the study with 28 attending the focus discussion group and 92 completing the survey questionnaire. the findings indicated that the us...

this study explores the use of the english locution i love you in the american context. the data were collected through a focus discussion group and a survey questionnaire. 120 college undergraduate students from a large public american university participated in the study with 28 attending the focus discussion group and 92 completing the survey questionnaire. the findings indicated that the us...

This paper presents an analysis of the trailers a telefiction series originally produced in English and simultaneously distributed Spanish Latin America. Looking (aired between 2014 2016 by HBO) was contemporary dramedy series, hybrid genre typical quality TV promoted HBO, whose plot dealt with life three gay friends living San Francisco. The aesthetics reveals auteur cinematic work Andrew Haig...

In this paper, we describe our approach to the English-Korean Cross-Lingual Link Discovery (CLLD) task in NTCIR 9. We propose a simple and effective approach to discover the links. Our method comprises preprocessing steps, anchor-target link mapping, and the ranking steps. For discovering the links, we use the English anchor names, the inter-language links, and the translation by the Google Tra...