This study explores the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction on enlarging listening vocabulary size. 115 learners English as a foreign language were recruited and received ten-week segments four skills (reduction, elision, intrusion assimilation). How was carried out described in details pre-test post-test form Listening Vocabulary Levels Test. It found that after instruction, learners’...

This article employs meta-analysis procedures to evaluate whether children with cochlear implants demonstrate lower spoken-language vocabulary knowledge than peers with normal hearing. Of the 754 articles screened and 52 articles coded, 12 articles met predetermined inclusion criteria (with an additional 5 included for one analysis). Effect sizes were calculated for relevant studies and forest ...

The key step in reading is to recognize the word by combining visually acquired letter information with prior knowledge of the possible words, as determined by narrative context and vocabulary. How are these two kinds of information combined to identify a word? The purpose of this project was to determine the effect that vocabulary size has on word identification. Vocabularies of 4, 26 and 1708...

The present study examined early vocabulary development in fifty-nine French monolingual and fifty French-English bilingual infants (1;4-1;6). Vocabulary comprehension was assessed using both parental report (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory; CDI) and the Computerized Comprehension Task (CCT). When assessing receptive vocabulary development using parental report, the bilingua...

This paper investigates the use of a hybrid language model for open-vocabulary Thai LVCSR. Thai text is written without word boundary markers and the definition of word unit is often ambiguous due to the presence of compound words. Hence, to build open-vocabulary LVCSR, a very large lexicon is required to also handle word unit ambiguity. Pseudomorpheme (PM), a syllable-like sub-word unit specif...

This study synthesizes 79 standardized mean-change differences between control and treatment groups from 17 independent studies, investigating the effect of morphological interventions on literacy outcomes for students with literacy difficulties. Average total sample size ranged from 15 to 261 from a wide range of grade levels. Overall, morphological instruction showed a significant improvement...

Vocabulary knowledge is central to a speaker's command of their language. In previous research, greater vocabulary knowledge has been associated with advantages in language processing. In this study, we examined the relationship between individual differences in vocabulary and language processing performance more closely by (i) using a battery of vocabulary tests instead of just one test, and (...

This paper presents speech-driven Web retrieval models which accept spoken search topics (queries) in the NTCIR-3 Web retrieval task. The major focus of this paper is on improving speech recognition accuracy of spoken queries and then improving retrieval accuracy in speechdriven Web retrieval. We experimentally evaluated the techniques of combining outputs of multiple LVCSRmodels in recognition...