The purpose of this study was to increase our understanding of the stuttering in bilingual children. Specifically, the linguistic features of the stuttered word in the spontaneous speech of a bilingual Spanish-English child (chronological age 2;7) were examined and compared to what is observed in monolingual Spanish and English speaking children who stutter. Digital video recordings of the part...

Previous research [9] suggests that Dutch learners of (British) English are not able to express sarcasm prosodically in their L2. The present study investigates whether explicit training on the prosodic markers of sarcasm in English can improve learners’ realisation of sarcasm. Sarcastic speech was elicited in short simulated telephone conversations between Dutch advanced learners of English an...

This paper describes our efforts in porting the SRI Decipher English system into Mandarin for transcribing telephone conversations. This includes all aspects of the system: the pronunciation phone set and lexicon, word segmentation, pitch features, discriminatively trained acoustic models with parameter sharing determined by decision trees, and web-data augmented language models.

BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend open discussions between patients and healthcare professionals as the end-of-life (EOL) approaches. Much of the knowledge about the EOL is based on the needs of patients with cancer and the applicability of this to other diseases is often queried. A literature review was undertaken concerning EOL care (EOLC) conversations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

ScriptEase is a tool for writing interactive stories in roleplaying games that frees the author from doing explicit computer programming. A story is created by selecting and customizing patterns for the plot, encounters, behaviors and conversations. It has been implemented as a front end to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights game. We will describe our experiences using ScriptEase as part of a high sc...

Sometimes when a speaker uses the English pronoun you he refers to an addressee, or a group of addressees, but other times the word is used in a generic, not in a deictic, sense. This research tries to find characteristics of these different usages of you in multi-party conversations in meetings.

This study explores code-switching practices among bilingual Saudi Arabians within three language varieties: English, Standard Arabic (SA), and Dialectal (DA). While there are studies that examine the use of between SA DA, others investigate Arabic-English code-switching, no to date has examined natural into English in conversations vs. DA as compared conversations. Controlling interviewer (Eng...

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