The purpose of the study is to explore and describe how to implement a pedagogical ASR-based intelligent computer-assisted speaking learning (iCASL) system to support adult learners with a private, flexible and individual learning environment to practice English pronunciation. The iCASL system integrates multiple levels of corrective feedback and allows learners to practice English speaking wit...

This paper examines the acoustic characteristics of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English-and Japanese-speaking adults and the acquisition of contrasts involving these sounds in 2- and 3-year-old children. Both English and Japanese have a two-way contrast between an alveolar fricative (/s/), and a postalveolar fricative (/∫/ in English and /ɕ/ in Japanese). Acoustic analysis of the adult pro...

Thesis. The aim of this paper is to present one the outcomes Fight Fright project. project itself focuses on development adult competencies related public speaking, self-confidence, combating fear speaking and interpersonal communication, using theatre techniques. It improving adults educators.
 Concept. Based their knowledge experience, partners have developed educational materials suppor...

Population: 362 adult inpatients (female 77%; Caucasian 87%; age 18–35 years (mean 27 years)) with DSM-III-R and Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB-R) diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) (n = 290) or other axis II disorder (n = 72). Exclusions: non-English speaking; IQ ,70; current or prior schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, or an organic ...

OBJECTIVE Return visits to the emergency department (ED) are used as a marker of quality of care. Limited English proficiency, along with other demographic and disease-specific factors, has been associated with increased risk of return visit, but the relationship between language, short-term return visits, and overall ED use has not been well characterized. METHODS This is a planned secondary...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has become increasingly established as a promising technique for monitoring functional brain activity. To our knowledge, no study has yet used fNIRS to investigate overt reading of irregular words and nonwords with a full coverage of the cerebral regions involved in reading processes. The aim of our study was to design and validate a protocol using ...

UNLABELLED A fundamental problem for those interested in human communication is to determine how ideas and the various units of language structure are communicated through speaking. The physiological concepts involved in the control of muscle contraction and movement are theoretically distant from the processing levels and units postulated to exist in language production models. A review of the...