This work presents a novel method for recognizing and extracting classical Arabic poems found in textual sources. The method utilizes the basic classical Arabic poem features such as structure, rhyme, writing style, and word usage. The proposed method achieves a precision of 96.94% while keeping a high recall value at 92.24%. The method was also used to build a prototype search engine for class...

This paper presents an adaptive procedure applied to measurements of speech intelligibility using the modified rhyme test. It is argued that the required speech-to-noise (SNR) ratio could be estimated with sufficient accuracy with as few as 25 utterances. The present procedure is based on the maximum a posteriori criterion, and it is demonstrated how the standard deviation of the SNR estimate c...

A syllable is defined as a unit of spoken language bigger than a speech sound (phoneme), and is made up of three components: a nucleus, which consists of a single vowel or syllabic consonant, optionally surrounded by one or more consonants. The consonants that precede the nucleus are collectively referred to as the onset, while those that succeed it are called the coda. The nucleus and coda are...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / May 2015, pp 1 18 DOI: 10.1017/S136672891500019X, Published online: 11 May 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S136672891500019X How to cite this article: JOSHUA WILLIAMS and SHARLENE NEWMAN Interlanguage dynamics and lexical networks in nonnative L2 signers of ASL: cross-modal rhyme priming. Bilingualism: ...

This paper focuses on the prosodic properties of monosyllabic, that is, masculine rhymes in Serbian poetry. Word stress has been identified as a crucial feature rhyme general, and particular, based quantitatively analyzed poetic database, which includes eight poets, four from Romantic post-Romantic period. The role is demarcative: it signals beginning domain rhyme, thereby considerably promotin...

epic poetry is a sort of ancient literature which exists in most of the world's literatures such as roman, greek, indian and iranian; but arabic literature has not used this type of literature. major reasons for this are as follows: 1. lack of nationalistic sense 2. arabic poetry is mostly based on vocality 3. there haven't been real long term wars between arabs 4. arabic poetry has h...

The present experimental study examined the effects of focus on the duration of stressed syllable onset and rhyme in words found in prefocal, focal, post focal and neutral position. The main results generated indicate a significant effect of focus position on the segmental duration. Additionally, word final lengthening was demonstrated, whereas no word initial lengthening effects were observed....

This paper presents an extension of a talking head that was implemented to synthesize audiovisual speech utterances in German. A mapping of English to German phonemes and a subsequent refinement of the co-articulation model enables the system to generate English utterances. A modified rhyme test was carried out for evaluation in terms of intelligibility. Results show that the visualization incr...

Visible speech movements were motion captured and parameterized. Coarticulated targets were extracted from VCVs and modeled to generate arbitrary German utterances by target interpolation. The system was extended to synthesize English utterances by a mapping to German phonemes. An evaluation by means of a modified rhyme test reveals that the synthetic videos of isolated words increase the recog...

Despite the fact that of the words having four or more letters only two appear in the dictionary, uent speakers of English have no diÆculty accepting the text as English or, given a little preparation, reading it aloud. What is it about this text that makes it seem so natural while containing so few English words? The outer structure helps, the line breaks, the capital letters at the start of e...