The challenge of predicting meme success has gained attention from researchers, largely due to the increased availability of social media data. Many models focus on structural features of online social networks as predictors of meme success. The current work takes a different approach, predicting meme success from linguistic features. We propose predictive power is gained by grounding memes in ...

Teachers can assess the pronunciations of students independently of extra-linguistic features such as age and gender observed in the students’ utterances. This capacity is, however, difficult to realize on machines because linguistic differences and extra-linguistic differences change acoustic features commonly. Therefore, the performance of automatic pronunciation assessment is inevitably affe...

Linguistic research and language technology development employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for linguistic data storage and queries. However, several important expressive features required for linguistic queries are missing in XPath. In this paper, we motivate and illustrate these features with a...

Both infants and adults are sensitive to the non-linguistic features of speech, and this sensitivity impacts speech sound categorization, but with somewhat different effects. While both infants and adults sometimes confuse the non-linguistic for the linguistic and are susceptible to categorization problems when the two covary, adults, on the other hand, are often able to exploit non-linguistic ...

in this article, the linguistic characteristics at different levels (words, sentences, discourses) and features content that correspond to the most important story elements are studied and analyzed. the neorealist novel is full of beauties and can be explored from the perspective of aesthetics.

the growing attention to formulaic sequences during the last decade indicates that the functional features of such sequences play a crucial role in writing. formulaic sequences are prefabricated linguistic components which are stored and retrieved as a whole. the present study aims to examine the functional features of such sequences in persian writings. to do so, 10 writing samples of persian ...

This study examines the linguistic features of freewrites and how those features relate to human scores of freewrite quality. Freewriting is a common prewriting strategy that has received little attention by researchers, particularly in terms of the linguistic features of good and poor freewrites. To address this issue, we developed a scoring rubric to assess the qualities of freewrites and how...