In recent years, corpus phonetics has become a rapidly expanding field. However, the lack of appropriate tools for automatic acoustic analysis hinders further development of the field. In this paper, we present a methodological study on the automatic extraction of vowel formants using both robust linear predictive coding (RLPC; Lee, 1988) and dynamic formant tracking (Talkin, 1987). Acoustic da...

Instant Messaging enables learners and educators to interact in an on-line environment. In this paper, we propose an intelligent ChatBot system, based on instant messaging, for student on-line coaching in an English learning environment. The proposed ChatBot facilitates synchronous communication with students by using ready reference materials including, dictionaries, authorized conversation ma...

This study attempted to compare the relative frequency of the occurrence of Language Related Episodes (LREs) in the dyadic talks of pairs who were homogeneous and heterogeneous in terms of English proficiency.  LREs are those parts of the conversations where the interlocutors explicitly focus on linguistic form. The study was carried out with 60 Iranian university students of teaching English a...

From an interest in language as it is really spoken, and using corpus linguistics as methodology, a longitudinal research project has been launched compiling speech data from primary school to university (UAM corpus2). The present article reports on part of this research in progress, focusing on a cross-linguistic intonation study using computer language learner and English native corpora. The ...

the present study, on the one hand, attempted to investigate the strategies applied in dispreferred responses by iranian university students of english and the extent to which pragmatic transfer could occur.  on the other hand, the study aimed to probe into the association between dispreferred organization and turn-shape. to this end, 31 relevant naturally occurring conversations, totaling 120 ...

Lack of data is a problem in training language models for conversational speech recognition, particularly for languages other than English. Experiments in English have successfully used webbased text collection targeted for a conversational style to augment small sets of transcribed speech; here we look at extending these techniques to Mandarin. In addition, we investigate different techniques ...

Language communication ability refers to the use language in society. The acquisition of this by second learners mostly relies on textbook dialogues adapted from real-life conversations. Therefore, whether scripted conversations can help improve learners’ should be taken seriously academic circle. This paper has analyzed all conversational texts book Functioning an Intercultural Community, usin...

The acts of apologizing and responding to apology are common activities in communication since using only either these two crucial speech cannot itself establish fully effective communication. This article aims examine response strategies that used English romance family films find out the lexico-grammatical realizations utterances conversations. was qualitatively designed with support research...

This paper is not to compare between the Arabic language and the English language as natural languages. Instead, it focuses on the comparison among them in terms of their challenges in building text based Conversational Agents (CAs). A CA is an intelligent computer program that used to handle conversations among the user and the machine. Nowadays, CAs can play an important role in many aspects ...

This paper presents some preliminary data from a study which investigates the intonation patterns of Malay speakers of English (MSEs). The study examines the MSEs’ intonation using Brazil’s [4] Discourse Intonation (DI) approach as the main method of analysis, with a view to modifying DI for this variety in view of how meaning is conveyed and understood. The spoken discourse of MSEs collected u...