A three-month longitudinal case study is reported of a L2 learner's response to corrective feedback. While the major bulk of evidence indicates that correction on the whole has positive effects on the particular learner's learning, there is also evidence contradicting the popular assumption that feedback is always semantically transparent with respect to the learning problem. Confronted with co...

This study concerns differences in the perception of phonemes that have undergone near merger within the past few generations in the Copenhagen speech community. It is hypothesized that this process can lead to a difference in phoneme boundaries across generations. We studied the effect of speaker and listener age on the placement of the phoneme boundary between /ɛ/ and /a/ in Copenhagen Danish...

Engineering the development of systems for multisensory monitoring and activity interpretation José Manuel Gascueña a , José Carlos Castillo b , Elena Navarro c & Antonio FernándezCaballero c a Symbia IT, Parque Científico y Tecnológico, Albacete, 02071, Spain b Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Lisbon, 1049-001, Portugal c Universidad de Castilla-La Manch Departamen...

Philosophy Department Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The speech technological scene in Denmark is slowly gaining public and commercial attention, and today there is a call for more diverse products than just recognition and synthesis of standard Danish (i.e. the Copenhagen regiolect). In this working paper, we demonstrate how an existing synthesis engine may be tuned to provide a regiolect speaking voice, involving in its simplest form prosodic a...

This paper will focus on the geopolitical interpretation of religion in international relations. This dimension has historically related religion to politics and politics among nations. More specifically we will analyze the use of religion as a legitimating instrument of political violence, with special focus on the violence emanating from Islamic extremism and terrorism. History of humanity is...