the present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native english speaking students’ (nness) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native english speaking students (ness) and compared learners ...

In Compressed Sensing (CS) framework, reconstruction of a signal relies on the knowledge of the sparse basis & measurement matrix used for sensing. Most of the studies so far focus on the application of CS in fields of images, radar, astronomy and Speech. This paper introduce new approach called combined basis that is made by separating voiced and unvoiced parts and applying different basis for...

The design principles and collection procedures behind a speech synthesis corpus directly impact the performance of the resulting text-to-speech system. This paper describes the design and collection of the Victoria corpus, created to support speech synthesis research and development at Apple Computer. This corpus is composed of ve constituent parts, each designed to cover a speci c aspect of s...

A subtractive deconvolution algorithm is described which allows one to separate a voiced speech signal into two components, representing the time-invariant and dynamic parts of the signal respectively. The resulting dynamic component can be encoded at a lower data rate than can the original speech signal. Results are presented which validate the utility of decomposing the speech waveform into t...

In this contribution the recognition of stress and emotional state is analysed by speech signal analysis using Liljencrant-Fant's model. It is based on the knowledge that some parameters of glottal pulses, obtained by this model, are changed owing to stress, hence they are suitable for the detection of speaker's stressed (" abnormal ") state. Two procedures for the analysis of these parameters ...

introduction: speech intelligibility, the ability to be understood verbally by listeners, is the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implantation. thus, the goal of this study was to compare the speech intelligibility between normal-hearing and cochlear-implanted children using the persian intelligibility test.   materials and methods: twenty-six cochlear-implanted childre...

    Background: Intelligibility refers to understandability of speech; and lack of it can negatively affect children’s overall communication effectiveness. Children with repaired cleft lip and/or cleft palate (CL/P) may experience poor speech intelligibility. This study aimed at evaluating speech intelligibility in children with repaired CL/P who had not been referred to sp...