The Translanguage English Database is a corpus of recordings made of oral presentations at Eurospeech93 in Berlin. The corpus name derives from the high percentage of presentations given in English by non-native speakers of English. 224 oral presentations at the conference were successfully recorded, providing a total of about 75 hours of speech material. These recordings provide a relatively l...

Genetic assimilation is a possible neo-Darwininan mechanism for the emer-gence and subsequent refinement of the putative innate human language acqui-sition device (LAD). The LAD, in the weak sense of language-specific inductivebias, is a part of all extant models of grammatical acquisition. A survey of argu-ments and counterarguments for the assimilation of such bias during ...

This paper describes a heap construction that supports insert and delete operations in arbitrary (possibly illegitimate) states. After any sequence of at most O(m) heap operations, the heap state is guaranteed to be legitimate, where m is the initial number of items in the heap. The response from each operation is consistent with its effect on the data structure, even for illegitimate states. T...

The finite momentum meson spectral function (MSF) in the pseudoscalar channel is evaluated, adopting for the fermionic propagators HTL expressions. The different contributions to the meson spectral functions are clearly displayed. Our analysis may be of relevance for lattice studies of MSF based so far on the Maximum Entropy Method. As a further step the correlation function along the (imaginar...

The temporal pseudoscalar meson correlation function in a QCD plasma is investigated in a range of temperatures exceeding Tc and first time for a finite momenta which is of the experimental interest. The imaginary time formalism is employed for the finite temperature calculations. The behavior of the meson spectral function and of the temporal correlator is studied in the HTL approximation, whe...

Behavioral psychophysical techniques were used to evaluate the residual effects of underwater noise on the hearing sensitivity of three pinnipeds: a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and a northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Temporary threshold shift (TTS), defined as the difference between auditory thresholds obtained before and after n...

An investigation into the effect of Carbogen (95% O2/5% CO2), 5% CO2/air, and 100% oxygen on cochlear threshold shifts caused by noise was undertaken. Five groups of eight pigmented guinea pigs were exposed to 105 dB broad band noise for 6 h per day for five consecutive days with each group receiving the various gaseous mixtures either during noise exposure or for 1 h immediately after noise ex...

Due to the global scale of English use, as a lingua franca (ELF) is at play. Given this reality, exposes different varieties rather than single variety English, preparing second language learners Englishes paramount for readiness involve in ELF communication. This paper reports on classroom instruction exposing college listeners with via TED talks using portfolio find out how they see these and...

BACKGROUND Mammographic density is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. It is commonly measured by an interactive threshold method that does not fully use information contained in a mammogram. An alternative fully automated standard mammogram form (SMF) method measures density using a volumetric approach. METHODS We examined between-breast and between-view agreement, reliabili...

In this paper we propose an algorithm for reduction of noise in audio signals. In contrast to several previous approaches we do not try to achieve a complete removal of the noise, but instead our goal is to preserve a pre-defined amount of the original noise in the processed signal. This is accomplished by exploiting the masking properties of the human auditory system. The speech and noise dist...