This paper proposes an improved context-aware language supported system for learning Japanese mimetic words and onomatopoeia (MIO) using wireless sensor network “MOTE”. In our previous work, a learner wears sensors so that the system provides the appropriate MIO expressions at his/her place. In this current system called JAMIOLAS (Supporting Japanese Mimetic words and Onomatopoeia Learning with...

This paper proposes a phonological analysis for vowel devoicing in Tokyo Japanese using the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993). Generally speaking, in Japanese the high vowels /i, u/ are devoiced when they occur between two voiceless consonants. However, there are some contexts where such a simple generalization does not hold, e.g., so called “word-final devoicing” and ...

Facial expressions are crucial to human social communication, but the extent to which they are innate and universal versus learned and culture dependent is a subject of debate. Two studies explored the effect of culture and learning on facial expression understanding. In Experiment 1, Japanese and U.S. participants interpreted facial expressions of emotion. Each group was better than the other ...

Aoyama Gakuin University [email protected] Motivation is an important topic among language teachers in Japan. Collins and Hunt (2011) observed increases in Japanese university student’s motivation as a result of collaborative learning and cooperative learning programs. This paper continues in this line of inquiry through a quantitative study of motivation in the context of computer support...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (sm) on performance and carcass characteristics of japanese quail. one hundred sixty day-old japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. the treatments consisted of sm0, sm50, sm100 and sm150. the diet for sm0 treatment had no sm (control), while those ...

the effects of feeding diets containing salbutamol (0, 1, 3, 5 and 7 mg/kg diet) from 21 to 49 days of ageon growth performance and carcass characteristics in 180 male and 180 female japanese quails (coturnixjaponica) were studied using a factorial arrangement based on completely randomized design. gender hadsignificant effect on weight gain (pwere not statistically significant (p>0.05). salbut...

Instructional grammar is often used in Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) and the grammatical error detection is an important feature. However, it is not an easy task in Japanese language. There is no delimiter separating consecutive words in Japanese sentences. Word segmentation is a process in which proper word boundaries are identified. Before syntactic parsing of a Japanese sentence...

the present study is an attempt to find common structural characteristics ofhonorific expressions in japanese and persian. to achieve this purpose, first wewill focus on two parameters: “honorific as vocabulary” and “honorific assentence” in recent researches on honorific expressions in japanese. then, wewill compare the structure and characteristic of honorific expressions inexamples from both...

This paper proposes a method of automatic back transliteration of proper nouns, in which a Japanese transliterated-word is restored to the original English word. The English words are created from a sequence of letters; thus our method can create new English words that are not registered in dictionaries or English word lists. When a katakana character is converted into English letters, there ar...

In this paper we describe that the hierarchical tag context tree (HTCT) approach improves the accuracy of semantic role labeling on Japanese text. In Japanese language there are functional multiword expressions such as no-tame-ni and yotte that have potential to designate semantic relations between a predicate and its arguments. Since these expressions come to the end part of each argument, the...