In this paper, we evaluate a set of linguistic rules for pronunciation variations in Singapore English. We collect and annotate a speech corpus for Singapore English and label it with IPA narrow transcriptions. Data driven pronunciation rules are derived using American English (Buckeye corpus) as a reference. We compare the data driven rules with linguistic rules proposed by phoneticians, and f...

Emotion characterises learners' feedback experiences. While the failure-to-fail literature suggests that emotion may be important, little is known about the role of emotion for educators. Secondary analyses were therefore conducted on data exploring 110 trainers' and trainees' feedback experiences. Group and individual narrative interviews were conducted across three UK sites. We analysed 333 n...

For implementations to be useful • the implementation needs to be thoroughly documented. In particular also: all differences between the linguistic theory and the implementation should be documented and explained. • the system used should support a clear, tractable, and formally meaningful way of implementing a grammar close to the linguistic theory. The implementation of HPSG theories can be v...

We present three applications which share some of their linguistic processor. The first application “FILES” – Fully Integrated Linguistic Environment for Syntactic and Functional Annotation is a fully integrated linguistic environment for syntactic and functional annotation of corpora currently being used for the Italian Treebank. The second application is a shallow parser – the same used in FI...

When people communicate, they coordinate a wide range of linguistic and non-linguistic behaviors. This process of coordination is called alignment, and it is assumed to be fundamental to successful communication. In this paper, we question this assumption and investigate whether disalignment is a more successful strategy in some cases. More specifically, we hypothesize that alignment correlates...

abstract the extent to which teachers’ written corrective feedback (wcf) is conducive to esl learners’ improvement has been discussed since truscott’s claim in 1996. the mentioned debate continues because there has been lots of contrastive research studies with different results. this paper presents the results of a 2-month study of the effectiveness of wcf to 65 low intermediate iranian learne...

This paper proposes a method to recognize anger-dialog based on linguistic and para-linguistic information in speech. Anger is classified into two types; HotAnger (agitated) and ColdAnger (calm). Conventional prosody-features based on para-linguistic can reliably recognize the former but not the latter. To recognize anger more robustly, we apply other para-linguistic cues named dialog-features ...

Conversational feedback is mostly performed through short utterances such as yeah, mhmm, okay not produced by the main speaker but by one of the other participants of a conversation. Such utterances are among the most frequent in conversational data. They also have been described in psycho-linguistic models of communication as a crucial communicative tool for achieving coordination or alignment...

This paper discusses the task of formulating a model of linguistic performance and proposes an approach toward this goal that is oriented toward an embodiment of the model as a digital-computer program. The methodology of current linguistic theory is criticized for several of its features that render it inapplicable to a realistic model of performance, and remedies for these deficiencies are pr...

The paper describes a method of identifying a set of interesting constructions in a syntactically annotated corpus of Czech – the Prague Dependency Treebank – by application of an automatic procedure of analysis by reduction to the trees in the treebank. The procedure clearly reveals certain linguistic phenomena that go beyond ‘dependency nature’ (and thus generally pose a problem for dependenc...