As literate English speakers, we are accustomed to the idea that words are made up of individual consonant and vowel sounds, called segments, that these sounds group into larger units called syllables, and that syllables naturally break down into intermediate units that include the rhyme (rime). But are elements like the segment, syllable, and rime universal, i.e., appropriate for the descripti...

The present paper examines phonetic characteristics of the initial stop consonants of English uttered by ESL learners whose native tongues are Korean, Thai, and Mandarin Chinese. It examines VOT (voice onset time) values of initial stops in the three languages and compares them with those of English stops produced by ESL learners of the three languages. From the acoustic analysis, it can be sai...

The paper combines the Fujisaki commandresponse model and the ToBI convention to analyze the English sentence prosody produced by American native speakers and Korean and Chinese English learners. The model parameters were extracted by FujiParaEditor for nine short sentences produced by three groups of speakers. The ToBI-tanscribed results were compared with the model parameters. Results show th...

Introduction How human brains acquire second languages (L2) is one of the fundamental questions in neuroscience and language science. However, it is unclear whether the first language (L1) has a cross-linguistic influence on the processing of L2. Methods Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activities during L2 word reading tasks of phonographic Japanese Kana bet...

In recent years, more and more CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) web pages appear in the Internet. The information in the CJK web page also becomes more and more important. Web crawler is a kind of tool to retrieve web pages. Previous researches focused on English web crawlers and the web crawler is always optimized for English web pages. We found that the performance of the web crawler is wo...

Given the current situation that research on linguistic landscape in tourism field is relatively insufficient, we try to carry out an investigation construction of Fulai Mountain tourist area Shandong Province, China, from perspective language domestic areas. This study found signs are mainly monolingual, supplemented by bilingual and trilingual signs. There three languages area: Chinese, Engli...

Why does ethnicity have varied effects on socioeconomic outcomes, such as educational achievement, for different national-origin groups, even after holding constant key socioeconomic and contextual factors? Why do the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants in the United States, regardless of socioeconomic backgrounds, excel and succeed in the educational arena in disproportionately large num...

This paper describes UKP’s participation in the cross-lingual link discovery (CLLD) task at NTCIR-9. The given task is to find valid anchor texts from a new English Wikipedia page and retrieve the corresponding target Wiki pages in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. We have developed a CLLD framework consisting of anchor selection, anchor ranking, anchor translation, and target discovery ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed at identifying the current nutrition knowledge, body-related perspectives, and weight control behaviors of Korean-Chinese college students. METHODS We conducted a pilot study by employing a healthy weight education program targeting Korean-Chinese nursing school students at the Yanbian University of Science and Technology in Yanbian, China. RESULTS This pilot stu...