Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...

The problem of sequential organization in the cochannel speech situation has previously been studied using speaker-model based methods. A major limitation of these methods is that they require the availability of pretrained speaker models and prior knowledge (or detection) of participating speakers. We propose an unsupervised clustering approach to cochannel speech sequential organization. Give...

The need to hear, comprehend and be able to recall spoken information can exist in less than ideal listening conditions. Such a situation occurs within an aircraft cabin where, despite improvements in modern passenger aircraft, the acoustic properties of the cabin are less than ideal for understanding speech. It is important that passengers, who are untrained and or new to the environment, hear...

Nowadays, there are many cases when messages and publications distributed orally in writing the media-Internet sites, social networks (Facebook, You Tube), personal Whatsapp chats, provoke conflicts between parties. This indicates possibility of language existence as a factor conflict communicative situation topicality studying its activities tool situation. The solution this problem requires t...

This article presents two studies investigating how the situation in which speech is uttered affects the frequency with which words are reduced. Study 1 is based on the Spoken Dutch Corpus, which consists of 15 components, nearly all representing a different speech situation. This study shows that the components differ in how often ten semantically weak words are highly reduced. The differences...

although the function of neuro-vocal system of the human body was previously suggested in the second half of the 17th century by italian surgeon antonio valsalva”, but its use in speech therapy during the past 30 years. however, its role has not been considered properly for teaching the speech method in the schools of dramatic arts. the present study aims to shed some light on the extreme need ...