The paper focuses on terminological problems in contemporary cross-linguistic communication that are generated primarily by two main tendencies global scientific — the digitalization information processing and English language globalization. Both closely connected with a new approach linguistics discourse clustering its role promoting foreign translation instruction. provides corpus-based accou...

In teaching and learning of English as a foreign language, the Internet serves as a source of authentic listening material, enabling learners to practice English in real contexts. An adaptive computer-assisted language learning and teaching system can pick up news clips as authentic materials from the Internet according to learner listening proficiency if it is equipped with a listenability mea...

Cross-linguistic transfer embodies language learners’ use of linguistic knowledge of their first language to leverage the learning of a second language. The cross-linguisitc transfer between Chinese and English has been studied by scholars from different disciplines. However, variances and inconsistencies exist among prior studies regarding the investigated linguistic domains and reported resul...

The objective of the study is to contribute our understanding acquisition second language intonation by comparing L2 Italian and Spanish as produced L1 Czech learners. Framed within Intonation Learning theory, sheds light on which tonal events tend be successfully learnt why. examines different types non-neutral statements (narrow focus, obvious, what-exclamatives), obtained means a Discourse C...

In English, a sentence like “The cat didn’t eat the carrot or pepper” typically receives “neither” interpretation; in Japanese it “not this not that” interpretation. These two interpretations are subset/superset relation, such that interpretation (strong reading) asymmetrically entails (weak reading). This asymmetrical entailment raises learnability problem. According to Semantic Subset Princip...

The acoustic model and the duration model are the two major components in statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) systems. The neural network based acoustic model makes it possible to model phoneme duration at phone-level instead of state-level in conventional hidden Markov model (HMM) based SPSS systems. Since the duration of phonemes is countable value, the distribution of the phone-le...

LEXUS provides a flexible framework for the maintaining lexical structure and content. It is the first implementation of the Lexical Markup Framework model currently being developed at ISO TC37/SC4. Amongst its capabilities are the possibility to create lexicon structures, manipulate content and use of typed relations. Integration of well established Data Category Registries is supported to fur...

We present an annotation model of modality which is (i) cross-linguistic, relying on a wide, strongly typologically motivated approach, and (ii) hierarchical and layered, accounting for both factuality and speaker’s attitude, while modelling these two aspects through separate annotation schemes. Modality is defined through cross-linguistic categories, but the classification of actual linguistic...