This paper presents an unsupervised, multimodal, neural network model of early child language acquisition that takes into account the child’s communicative intentions as well as the multimodal nature of language. The model exhibits aspects of one-word child language such as generalisation to new and unforeseen utterances, a U-shaped learning trajectory and a vocabulary spurt. A probabilistic ga...

In this paper, we will report on the results of the European projecti TST-ID – “Speech technology integrated learning modules for Intercultural Dialogue”. The European Union promotes language and culture learning and stresses the importance of linguistic diversity and of learning and using not one lingua franca but the language of the other. However, the range of attractive e-learning materials...

With the global economic integration, learning foreign languages has been becoming a living behavior in Chinese younger generation. Therefore, more and more schools or language centers grasp this opportunity to use different EFL teaching method for developing their training market. Based on this, it impels new standard of English courses in order to pay great attention to involve the students i...

This study examines potential designs in the usage of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) for communicative language learning in learner-centered communication. In this study, we compared four types of SCMC: text-based chat with and without interlocutors’ image, video conferencing, and audio conferencing, each supporting of the use of formulaic expressions concerning communicatio...

There has been a growing realization of the importance of authentic human interactions attendant to both first and second language learning. By contrast to L1 learners, the older L2 learner faces a greatly changed learning environment and more adult-oriented communicative opportunities, and must overcome loss of aural sensitivity and limited exposure to the prosodic systems of expressiveness ap...

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is an artificial neural network model based on unsupervised learning. In this paper, the use of the SOM in natural language processing is considered. The main emphasis is on natural features of natural language including contextuality of interpretation, and the communicative and social aspects of natural language learning and usage. The SOM is introduced as a gener...

This paper describes a framework for studies of the adaptive acquisition and evolution of language, with the following components: language learning begins by associating words with cognitively salient representations (“grounding”); the sentences of each language are determined by properties of lexical items, and so only these need to be transmitted by learning; the learnable languages allow mu...

learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. however, few studies have been done concerning the case of kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. for this reason, the current study addresses this gap. it intends to investigate to what extent kurdish learners are autonomous in learning english language. the study i...