This paper presents a comparative evaluation of metrics for the quantification of speech rhythm, comparing pairwise variability indices (nPVI-V and rPVI-C) and interval measures (DV, DC, %V), together with rate-normalised interval measures (VarcoV and VarcoC). First, we examined how well these metrics discriminated ‘‘stress-timed’’ English and Dutch and ‘‘syllable-timed’’ Spanish and French. Me...

The processing of homonyms is complex considering homonyms have many lexical properties. For instance, train contains semantic (a locomotive/to instruct) and syntactic (noun/verb) properties, each affecting interpretation. Previous studies find homonym processing influenced by lexical frequency (Duffy et al., 1988) as well as syntactic and semantic context (Folk & Morris, 2003; Swinney, 1979; T...

Background. The effectiveness of oral corrective feedback (OCF) in language learning is influenced by learners' comprehension and response to various OCF techniques. Therefore, it essential for teachers consider preferences strategies.
 Purpose. This quantitative study aimed investigate the Thai as a foreign (TFL) learners ten commonly discussed types OCF. Specifically, examined whether th...

We provide new characterizations of the class of regular cost functions (Colcombet 2009) in terms of first-order logic. This extends a classical result stating that each regular language can be defined by a first-order formula over the infinite tree of finite words with a predicate testing words for equal length. Furthermore, we study interpretations for cost logics and use them to provide diff...