The increasing usage of social media for conversations, together with the availability of its data to researchers, provides an opportunity to study human conversations on a large scale. Twitter, which allows its users to post messages of up to a limit of 140 characters, is one such social media. Previous studies of utterances in books, movies and Twitter have shown that most of these utterances...

Many attempts have been made to discover some systematicity in the semantics of phrasal verbs. However, most research has investigated the semantics of particles exclusively; no study has examined how the multiple meanings of the verb also contribute to the meanings of phrasal verbs. The current corpus-based (COCA) study advances the research on phrasal verbs by examining the interaction of the...

Patterns of Politeness in Teacher-Student Interaction: Investigating an Academic Context AbstractThis study investigated politeness strategies used in instructor-student relationships, in an academic environment. To conduct the study, four university classes with different instructors were randomly selected, observed and analyzed. Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness was drawn on as the an...

This research was conducted when the children were 3 years and 6 months old. The child’s nams is Muhammad Habibie. son of Mr. Azwal Effendi Mrs. Rostiana. study to test children's speaking ability in 1, 2, 3, 4 5 words. uses average utterance length (MLU) survey method. data collection technique done by recording spoken words using a mobile phone. use tap method, results are written analyzed. A...

ASR has long attracted attention for call center monitoring systems. In the ASR technology for call center conversations, the system usually divides an input signal into separate utterances and eliminates the unneeded silence parts of the signal before doing ASR processing on the detected utterances. This means the input signal should be split into utterances of the proper length for both ASR p...