Kohonen network was applied in the analysis of fluent and non-fluent utterances of any length. The input vector consisted of sound level values measured in dB(A) in 1/3-octave bands. Fragments of stuttering people’s and fluent speakers’ utterances were analysed. The optimum neural network was chosen of a 5×5 rectangle topology. Time arrangement of winner neurons in the network extracts single d...

estimating fetal weight in utero, for better management of pregnancy and appropriate timing of delivery especially in high-risk pregnancies is necessary. our purpose to evaluate a simple method in estimating fetal weight in iranian pregnant patients and also to compare was with a previous western study. this study was carried out in arash hospital, tehran university of medical sciences in 1996-...

We argue that for purely incremental unsupervised learning of phrasal inversion transduction grammars, a minimum description length driven, iterative top-down rule segmentation approach that is the polar opposite of Saers, Addanki, and Wu’s previous 2012 bottom-up iterative rule chunking model yields significantly better translation accuracy and grammar parsimony. We still aim for unsupervised ...

It was established that the performance of our annotation system [8] is affected by the length of the utterances: the error rate, the CPU-load and the memory requirements tend to increase as the utterances get longer. In this contribution the speech signal is first segmented into speech, pauzes and noise (breaths, clicks, : : : ) and subsequently split in signal phrases prior to the annotation....

This paper presents an optimality theoretic approach to the transitive particle verb construction (PVC), also referred to in the literature e.g. as phrasal verbs or separable complex verbs. This construction occurs in most if not all of the Germanic languages and has been studied most intensely and controversially in the generative literature (cf. Dehé et al 2002 and Dehé 2002 for recent analys...

The journal editors and the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Jaume I wish to pay tribute to our colleague, friend and teacher, Dr. Xavier Campos Vilanova who passed away earlier this year. Xavier showed a passionate enthusiasm for the study of the history of the English language and literature, but also for everything he did. From taking photographs, researching on the meaning o...

This paper demonstrates how to measure the compositionality of phrasal verbs using corpus frequencies from the BNC. This allows us to distinguish semantically transparent phrasal verbs (they lifted up their hats) from opaque ones (they summed up their feelings). Working by analogy to paradigmatic approaches to morphology (Moscoso del Prado Martín et al 2004), I use information theoretic terms t...