Extending the vocabulary of a large vocabulary speech recognition system usually requires phonetic transcriptions for all words to be known. With automatic phonetic baseform determination acoustic samples of the words in question can substitute for the required expert knowledge. In this paper we follow a probabilitistic approach to this problem and present a novel breadth-first search algorithm...

Vocabulary is the basic building block of language, and acquisition any language relies heavily on vocabulary knowledge. The use learning strategies one main factors affecting learning. In view this, this study an attempt to examine correlation between breadth knowledge elementary Chinese English learners. By ways analyzing data questionnaire level test, author finds out that social/ affective ...

This study investigated the relationship between students’ attitude (cognitive, affective and behavioral) towards vocabulary learning their English knowledge (breadth, depth fluency) with reference to Grade 9. It employed a correlational research design simple random sampling stratified techniques. Pearson’s r was computed examine each of three aspects breadth, fluency knowledge. The coefficien...

This study examined the mediating roles of gender and academic field in relationship between vocabulary knowledge reading comprehension. A size test, a depth test IELTS were administered to 319 university-level students (54 males; 265 females) from three disciplines: medicine, science, arts. The findings revealed that had 2000 3000 word families, low (45.3%), poor comprehension (52.4%). Besides...