The purpose of the present study was to investigate the use of personal and impersonal metadiscourse (MD) by Persian- and English-speaking writers in academic writing. For this purpose, 80 abstracts were selected (40 written by Persian-speaking writers and 40 by English-speaking ones) and analyzed. These abstracts were selected from endocrinology and metabolism journals published during 2010 to...

This paper characterizes the temporal organization of speech within interstress intervals (ISI) for fast and normal rates of speech for two groups of English speakers: . normal speakers (NS), and a group of disfluent speakers (DS) whose speech rate was clinically rated as “slow”. Duration measurements of stressed vowels, (SV) unstressed vowels (USV) and intervowel intervals (IVI) were obtained ...

For automotive hands-free and speech recognition applications, distributed microphones are often mounted in the car where each of the speakers has a dedicated microphone close to his position. To provide additional control information for further speech enhancement, it is often advantageous to distinguish between the activity of the different passengers. In this contribution speaker activity is...