This study explores a multilingual phonotactic approach to automatic language identification using Broadcast News data. The definition of a multilingual phoneset is discussed and an upper limit on the performance of the phonotactic approach is estimated by eliminating any degradation due to recognition errors. This upper bound is compared to automatic language identification based on a phonotac...

The present study mainly examines the cleft acquisition of Mandarin children. In our study, we observed learners' performances from four main perspectives, i.e., syntactic complexity effects, cleft types, age effects and developmental effects. The results of this study gave support that syntactic construction was an important factor affecting children's language acquisition. Also, different cle...