To improve the performance and the usability of the speech recognition devices, It is necessary for most applications to allow users to enter new words or personalize words to the system vocabulary. Voice-tagging technique is a simple example that use speaker dependent spoken sample to generate baseform transcriptions of the spoken words. More sophisticated techniques can use both spoken sample...

The crucial role of affective factors like anxiety, inhibition, motivation and self-esteem have long been of interest in the field of language learning due to their enormous association with the cognitive processes involved in performance in a second or foreign language. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ self-esteem and conversational dominance in ...

the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

Music can be a powerful mnemonic device, as shown by a body of literature demonstrating that listening to text sung to a familiar melody results in better memory for the words compared to conditions where they are spoken. Furthermore, patients with a range of memory impairments appear to be able to form new declarative memories when they are encoded in the form of lyrics in a song, while unable...

postposing is a feature of spoken language. it is a process that postposes a preverbal constituent to a position after the verb, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence. in this study we focus on this linguistic phenomenon and its relation to factors such as grammatical weight, definiteness, animacy and information structure. to investigate the occurrence of this process and its in...

Previous work on the effects of word usage frequency on production has found a significant correlation between the usage frequency and duration of the word. This study examines usage frequency effects on the production of homophonous words in a corpus of Mandarin Chinese, seeking to determine the validity of previous results crosslinguistically. Analysis of the corpus reveals a similar pattern ...