This study investigated the prosodic features of non-native spoken English. Sixteen recordings were extracted from an in-progress test-based learner corpus, each consisted of read-aloud and question-and-answer parts by a learner who had received a grade of 3 (passing) or 5 (highest) on a five-point scale. A group of 8 native speakers was recruited and recorded under the same test scenario as a ...

Non-native fish species have been implicated in native fish extinction and endangerment in the United States. Access to standardized data from across the American West allowed the opportunity to study the distribution and abundance of native and non-native fish species at a scale that has rarely been approached previously. Nonnative fishes comprise 1 of every 4 individual fish in the West and a...

Recent invasions by non-native gobiid fish species that are ongoing in the Western European rivers Rhine and Meuse, will lead to interactions with native benthic fish species. Since both non-native gobiids and native benthic species are bottom dwelling species with a preference for shelter during at least part of their life cycle, it is likely that competition for shelter will occur between the...

Theory predicts that stability should increase with diversity via several mechanisms. We tested predictions in a 5-year experiment that compared low-diversity exotic to high-diversity native plant mixtures under two irrigation treatments. The study included both wet and dry years. Variation in biomass across years (CV) was 50% lower in mixtures than monocultures of both native and exotic specie...

We propose a method for modeling pronunciation variation in the context of spell checking for non-native writers of English. Spell checkers, typically developed for native speakers, fail to address many of the types of spelling errors peculiar to non-native speakers, especially those errors influenced by differences in phonology. Our model of pronunciation variation is used to extend a pronounc...

Due to its design and integration into webpages, native advertising is a constantly growing topic among web developers and marketing experts [4, 7]. Research has shown that native advertising is not simply a golden ticket for advertisers, and greatly relies on proper implementation to be effective. This study assess native advertising’s effectiveness in goal-driven web browsing compared to stan...

Non-native listeners’ perception of speech has been shown to be more adversely affected by interference from background noise than native speakers. This study focused on effects of different levels of linguistic information on speech perception in noise. We examined roles of phonetic and contextual cues in sentence perception in babble noise by Chinese learners and native speakers of English. O...

We compared pitch patterns of Japanese intonational phrases spoken by a native speaker of Chinese. Several types of pitch errors were distinguished according to pitch contour shapes within and across intonational phrases. These shapes differ categorically from one another—for instance, the learner uses flat contours while the native uses hump-like contours. Comparisons of the learner and native...

Web browsers have become fast and flexible enough to allow web applications to be viable competition to native applications. Now that the web as a platform has become formidable, it has changed the types of web applications being produced, and the ways in which native applications are being built. This observation leads me to propose the concept of the App Web a category of the world wide web w...

The aim of this study was to carry out a survey of the flora with potential for beekeeping in the counties of Ubiratã and Nova Aurora-PR through the collection of plants and pollen analyses in honey samples collected monthly. 208 species of plants were recorded, distributed in 66 families. The families that showed the major richness of pollen types were: Asteraceae, Myrtaceae and Solanaceae. Ap...