The proposed adoption of 'scientific Globish' as a simplified language standard for scholarly communication may appeal to authors who have difficulty with English proficiency. However, Globish might not justify the hopes being pinned on it and might open the door to further deterioration of the quality of English-language scientific writing.

This paper, based on a phonetic experiment, depicts a contrastive study on the rhythmic pattern of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (CL2) as compared with that of the native speakers of both standard British and American English (EL1) in their respective pitch accent distribution patterns, prosodic structures and duration patterns.

We propose a new approach to rendering speech of different languages with only a speaker’s monolingual recordings for mixed-code TTS applications. A reference speaker in the target language (say Chinese) is used to help building the target language TTS with “tiles” of the original source speaker‘s monolingual (say English) data. The difference between the monolingual source speaker and the refe...