Children learning English as an additional language (EAL) often experience lower academic attainment than monolingual peers. In this study, teachers provided ratings of English language proficiency and social, emotional, and behavioral functioning for 782 children with EAL and 6,485 monolingual children in reception year (ages 4-5). Academic attainment was assessed in reception and Year 2 (ages...

Ever since the publication of Fromkin’s Slips of the Tongue in 1973, more and more psycholinguists have realized the importance of studying the slips of the tongue. Dell (1986) defined slips of the tongue as “unintended, nonhabitual deviation(s) from a speech plan”. That is, those speech errors are not due to an incomplete or incorrect language system, but to language processing problems. Most ...

We asked why Spanish-monolingual children exhibit a weaker, slower-to-develop shape bias in word-learning contexts compared to English-monolingual children (Hahn & Cantrell, 2012). Ten English-monolingual adults and nine EnglishSpanish bilingual adults rated the perceptual similarity of items indicated by subsets of words from the English MCDI and Spanish MCDI, respectively. Consistent with pre...

Statistical machine translation systems are usually trained on large amounts of bilingual text which is used to learn a translation model, and also large amounts of monolingual text in the target language used to train a language model. In this chapter we explore the use of semi-supervised methods for the effective use of monolingual data from the source language in order to improve translation...

This paper studies the problem of mining entity translation, specifically, mining English and Chinese name pairs. Existing efforts can be categorized into (a) a transliterationbased approach leveraging phonetic similarity and (b) a corpus-based approach exploiting bilingual co-occurrences, each of which suffers from inaccuracy and scarcity respectively. In clear contrast, we use unleveraged res...

In this paper, we explore the help of visual features to cross-language image retrieval. We propose an approach that transforms textual queries into visual representations. The relationships between text and images are modeled. Visual queries are constructed from textual queries using the relationships. The retrieval results using textual and visual queries are combined to generate the final ra...

Translation techniques are often employed by cross-lingual ontology mapping (CLOM) approaches to turn a cross-lingual mapping problem into a monolingual mapping problem which can then be solved by state of the art monolingual ontology matching tools. However in the process of doing so, noisy translations can compromise the quality of the matches generated by the subsequent monolingual matching ...

We investigate the task of unsupervised constituency parsing from bilingual parallel corpora. Our goal is to use bilingual cues to learn improved parsing models for each language and to evaluate these models on held-out monolingual test data. We formulate a generative Bayesian model which seeks to explain the observed parallel data through a combination of bilingual and monolingual parameters. ...

<p>Monolingual speakers have in the past been less associated with ethnolectal speaking. However, various corpora increasingly show elements that were assigned to Kiez- or Turkic-German - even monolingual data. In our article we prominent features of speechstyles by giving three examples, which no longer directly reflect extra-linguistic dimension <em>ethnicity</em>. conclusio...