In this study we determined whether untrained raters’ assessments of fluency in low-proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and whether they varied across tasks. We collected speech samples from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English on picture description, monologue, and dialogue tasks. Temporal measures were made on each sample. Twenty-eight untrained judges rat...

cet article est consacréà l’étude du dialogue dans enfance, récit autobiographique de nathalie sarraute qui contient des souvenirs de ses onze premières années. l’une des originalités de ce récit, se base sur la présence de deux voix narratives qui dialoguent tout au long du récit. l’une de ces dernières, joue le rôle d’une narratrice et l’autre représente le côté conscient de l’auteur qui suiv...

A lecture is not necessarily a monologue, promoting only passive learning. If appropriate techniques are used, a lecture can stimulate active learning too. One such method is demonstration, which can engage learners' attention and increase the interaction between the lecturer and the learners. This article describes two simple and useful tools for demonstration during gross anatomy lectures. On...

We introduce a novel approach for automatically generating a virtual instructor from textual input only. Our fully implemented system first analyzes the rhetorical structure of the input text and then creates various questionanswer pairs using patterns. These patterns have been derived from correlations found between rhetorical structure of monologue texts and question-answer pairs in the corre...

Parkinsons disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s, affecting about 1% of the people older than 65 and about 89% of the people with PD develop different speech disorders. Different researchers are currently working in the analysis of speech of people with PD, including the study of different dimensions in speech such as phonation, articulation, pro...

This is a translation of an excerpt from the last three pages Finnegans Wake (FW 626.30 – 628.16), in which river-character Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP) presents bitter farewell monologue, motivated by abandonment her family and supposed betrayal mountain-husband Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (HCE) with cloud-daughter, young Issy. While remembering past, ALP feels old, alone without strength to co...

Tomohiro Ohno∗ , Shigeki Matsubara†‡, Hideki Kashioka‡, Naoto Kato‡, Yasuyoshi Inagaki§ ∗Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University †Information Technology Center, Nagoya University ‡ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories §Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Aichi Prefectural University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan [email protected]