OBJECTIVE The authors first examined the influence of moderate to severe congenital hearing impairment (CHI) on the correctness of samples of elicited spoken language. Then, the authors used this measure as an indicator of linguistic proficiency and examined its effect on performance in language reception, independent of bottom-up auditory processing. DESIGN In groups of adults with normal he...

In this paper we describe our current work on automatic continuous sign language recognition. We present an automatic sign language recognition system that is based on a large vocabulary speech recognition system and adopts many of the approaches that are conventionally applied in the recognition of spoken language. Furthermore, we present a set of freely available databases that can be used fo...

This report is based on an action research multiple baseline design study across five different qualitative aspects of spoken interaction used to evaluate the effectiveness of a flashcard system to improve oral performance in the ESL classroom. The participants were ten children attending third grade in a public school in Bogotá, and who were assessed as having low oral performance in spoken En...

Language identification is an important field in spoken language processing. The identification of the language sung or spoken in music, however, has attracted only minor attention so far. This, however, is an important task when it comes to categorizing, classifying and labelling of music data. In this paper, we review our efforts of transferring wellestablished techniques from spoken language...

abstract: autistic child may have a range of problems. failure of understand the meaning of words is the main characteristic of the autistic child. child `s ability to communicate may also be inappropriate. in briefly, the areas of language problems in these children, in other languages, are pragmatic and semantic. because of the difficulties of the working with autistic children, research rela...

Concordances have always played an important role in the analysis of language corpora, for studies in humanities, literature, linguistics, translation and language teaching. However, very few of the available systems support multi-level queries against a richly-annotated, sound-aligned spoken corpus. The rapid growth in the development of spoken corpora, particularly for French, increases the n...

OBJECTIVE To determine verbal intelligence and spoken language of children with phenylketonuria and to study the effect of age at diagnosis and phenylalanine plasma level on these abilities. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Children with phenylketonuria were recruited from pediatric hospitals in 2012. Normal control subjects were recruited from kindergartens in Tehran. PARTICIPANTS 30 phen...

This paper describes a robust parsing algorithm for spoken language understanding. Comparing with the other work in robust parsing, we focus on building a parser that is robust to not only ill-formed spontaneous spoken language inputs but also under-specified grammars. Preliminary experiment results show that the parsing performance deteriorates more gracefully than another parser we have used ...