The article reveals the problem of unmotivated English borrowings, in particular, their subgroups, which, given etymology, are treated as pseudo-anglicisms. lexico-semantic context pseudo-anglicisms – anglo-latinism donat and anglo-greekism hype is revealed against socio-cultural background language-source specific Ukrainian equivalents proposed an actualization linguistic thinking. Taking into...

Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background Dustin Crowther The current study investigated first language (L1) effects on listener judgment of comprehensibility and accentedness in second language (L2) speech. The participants were 60 university-level adult speakers of English from four L1 backgrounds (Chinese, Romance, Hindi, Farsi), with 15 spe...

Systems based on statistical and machine learning methods have been shown to be extremely effective and scalable for the analysis of large amount of textual data. However, in the recent years, it becomes evident that one of the most important direction of improvement in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, like word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution, relation extraction, and othe...

This paper describes two enhancements to our language identification system. Composite background (CBG) modeling allows us to identify target language speech in an environment where labeled background training data is unavailable or limited. Instead of separate models for each of the background languages, a single composite background model is created from all the non-target training speech. Ge...