BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To assess the clinical feasibility of time-resolved 3D phase contrast (4D Flow) MRI assessment of the ophthalmic artery (OphA) flow in patients with internal carotid artery stenosis (ICS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one consecutive patients with unilateral ICS were recruited. 4D Flow MRI and acetazolamide-stress brain perfusion single photon emission computed tomograp...

The purposes of this corpus-driven study were to compare the use four-word lexical bundles between native English and Thai dissertation writings. Two language corpora, roughly 1,000,000 words apiece, gathered from dissertations in field Language Teaching written by both groups writers. Each corpus was subdivided into three sub-corpora, namely, Introduction, Methodology, Results Discussions sub-...

We investigate how to assess the prosody quality of an ESL learner’s spoken sentence against native speaker’s natural recording or TTS synthesized voice. A spoken English utterance read by an ESL leaner is compared with the recording of a native speaker, or TTS voice. The corresponding F0 contours (with voicings) and breaks are compared at the mapped syllable level via a DTW. The correlations b...

As a part of pragmatics of language, Metadiscourse (MD) has been widely recognized as playing a pivotal role in the expression and comprehension of messages in academic writing. In view of its significance in effective communication, there have been a lot of attempts to categorize different MD devices within manageable models alongside some descriptive works to demonstrate the use of MD devices...

This study tests whether Australian English (AusE) and European Spanish (ES) listeners differ in their categorisation discrimination of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels. In particular, we investigate two theoretically relevant measures vowel category overlap (acoustic vs. perceptual categorisation) as predictors non-native difficulty. We also the individual listener’s own native productions pre...