Non-verbal communication or body messaging occurs when facial expressions, tone of voice, head and neck movements, smiling and ... affects others; which may be intentional or unintentional. Farhangi in nonverbal communication: the art of using movement and sound” defines this field as such: "Non-verbal communication is phonetic and non-phonetic messages which have been explained by other than l...

While the Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) problem remains a challenge for English spoken term detection tasks, it is underestimated for Chinese. This is because an Chinese OOV query term can still be matched as a sequence of Chinese characters, with each character itself being a word in the vocabulary. However, our experiments show that search accuracy levels differ significantly when a query is or is ...

A transliteration scheme from Roman (English) to Bangla can help increase the use of Bangla in essential and diverse computing areas such as word processing, Internet and mobile communication and information query and retrieval. The Bangla script’s irregular phonetic nature and its large repertoire of consonant clusters (juktakkhors) create a large gap between the pronunciation and the orthogra...

Speech production is highly sensitive to the prosodic organization of utterances. This paper reviews some of the ways in which articulation varies according to prosodic prominences and boundaries.

Almost any word can be a Bangali name, and the name in turn is often spelled in many different ways, all of which are considered correct and interchangeable. The reason for the spelling complication is two-fold: (1) there is a large gap between the script and pronunciation in Bangla, largely attributed to the large scale Sanskritization process that started in the 12 century and continued throu...

The interaction between pauses and the retrieval of the desired lexemes in the process of word production involves controversies that are worth investigating. The hypothesis of the present research was that certain pauses might refer to specific operations in the mental lexicon predicting the phonetic output. The temporal analysis of word retrieval was carried out in a ‘tip-of-the-tongue’ elici...

This paper discusses methodological issues in the development of a multitiered, phonetic annotation system, intended to capture pronunciation variation in the speech of second language learners and to serve in construction of a data base for training ASR models to recognize major pronunciation variants in the assessment of accented English.

Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, or CSJ, is a large-scale database of spontaneous Japanese. It contains speech signal and transcription of about 7 million words along with various annotations like POS and phonetic labels. After describing its design issues, preliminary evaluation of the CSJ was presented. The results suggest strongly the usefulness of the CSJ as the resource for the study of spo...

In modern linguistics, the study of thematic layers vocabulary is one topical issues research. Of particular interest are dialects. process semantic analysis linguistic view world, it revealed that dialect speaker in mastering things and phenomena reflects them his language. The lexemes certain dialects contributes to disclosure national cultural characteristics its speaker, peculiarities perce...