autosegmental-metrical (am) phonology distinguishes two types of accents (stresses), namely: lexical accent and pitch accent. the present study offers an acoustic analysis of the prosodic feature, pitch accent, in the persian speech of persian speakers who are fluent in english as a second language (english instructors). language interference has often been dealt with as the effect of firs lang...

The most common target of multilingual ASR aims at covering various speakers from various languages. The problem we address in this article is more specifically an asymmetrical bilingual scenario, where the same speaker may insert in his speech some foreign words using foreign pronunciations. This is a frequent situation for French as spoken in Canada, where English proper names are often spoke...

We describe a monolingual English corpus of original and (human) translated texts, with an accurate annotation of speaker properties, including the original language of the utterances and the speaker’s country of origin. We thus obtain three sub-corpora of texts reflecting native English, non-native English, and English translated from a variety of European languages. This dataset will facilita...

Although anecdotally there appear to be differences in the way native speakers use and comprehend their native language, most empirical investigations of language processing study university students and none have studied differences in language proficiency, which may be independent of resource limitations such as working memory span. We examined differences in language proficiency in adult mon...

This study examined the influence of obligatory linguistic marking of the source of information on source memory. Turkish grammar requires speakers to indicate if an assertion is based on first hand knowledge or non-firsthand knowledge (hearsay or inference); English grammar does not require this distinction. We hypothesized that obligatory coding of source of evidence leads to a greater weight...

There  has  been  considerable  debate  over  what  the  sources  of  morphological  variation  in  second  language acquisition  are.  From  among  various  hypotheses  put  forth  on  the  topic,  the  feature  reassembly  hypothesis (Lardiere, 2005) assumes that it is the reconfiguration of features in the L2 which causes variation between the performance of natives and non-natives. Acknowle...

this contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of persian (nsp) and native speakers of english (nse) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

Ebrahim Ansari ([email protected]) et al. 2017. Using english as pivot to extract persian-italian parallel sentences from non-parallel corpora. In " Applications of Comparable Corpora " edited book Berlin Linguistic Press (ed.). The effectiveness of a statistical machine translation system (SMT) is very dependent upon the amount of parallel corpus used in the training phase. For low-resource l...

This study examined production of /b, d, g/ and /p, t, k/ in the initial .position of English and Spanish words by two groups of native Spanish adults and native Spanish 9-10 year-olds who began learning English as a second language (L2) by the age of 5-6 years. It also examined identification by the same subjects of a VaT continuum ranging from /da/ to /ta/. The subjects in all three groups pr...