as the arabic formal language is the national unifier that unites the sons of the arabs, so that it is a common language and the one of the holy quran, ideological inherited, and the language of science and knowledge, vulgar dialects in different arab countries, however, differ to the extent that, for example, a man from one of the eastern arab countries isn't able to find out the accent o...

The crucial role of affective factors like anxiety, inhibition, motivation and self-esteem have long been of interest in the field of language learning due to their enormous association with the cognitive processes involved in performance in a second or foreign language. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ self-esteem and conversational dominance in ...

In this paper, an attempt is made to automatically identify the activity a meeting is in. The input used in this identification is the frequency of each possible conversational state, and the frequency with which each speakers speaks. A number of classifiers were created and trained, and they performed very well when it was known in advance when an meeting switched activities. The performance, ...

PURPOSE The present study examined the extent of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in children's conversational language use. METHOD Behavioral genetic analyses focused on conversational measures and 2 standardized tests from 380 twins (M = 7.13 years) during the 2nd year of the Western Reserve Reading Project (S. A. Petrill, K. Deater-Deckard, L. A. Thompson, L. ...

This paper presents our recent work on language identi-cation research using conversational speech (the LDC Conversational Telephone Speech Database). The base-line system used in this study was developed recently ((4, 5]). It is based on language-dependent phone recognition and phonotactic constraints. The system was trained using monologue data and obtained an error rate of around 9% on a com...

This paper discusses the use of natural language or „conversational‟ agents in e-learning environments. We describe and contrast the various applications of conversational agent technology represented in the e-learning literature, including tutors, learning companions, language practice and systems to encourage reflection. We offer two more detailed examples of conversational agents, one which ...

introduction: children with pragmatic language impairment have problems with appropriate use of language according to age and context. assessment and intervention plans designed to be used with a pragmatically impaired child were discussed in this study. materials and methods: the primary method of data collection adopted in this study was observation method. accordingly, communicative partner ...