this article intended to illustrate a profile of the impact of english in magazine print advertising in iran, examining the quantitative results obtained from discourse analysis. three issues of khanevadeh sabz and two issues of zendegi ideal, female-oriented and best-seller magazines published in 2011, were collected and a total of 261 advertisements was analyzed qualitatively. results showed ...

This article intended to illustrate a profile of the impact of English in magazine print advertising in Iran, examining the quantitative results obtained from discourse analysis. Three issues of Khanevadeh Sabz and two issues of Zendegi Ideal, female-oriented and best-seller magazines published in 2011, were collected and a total of 261 advertisements was analyzed qualitatively. Results showed ...

While automatic speech recognition of either Cantonese or English alone has achieved a great degree of success, recognition of Canton-English code-mixing speech is not as trivial. This paper attempts to analyze the effect of language mixing on recognition performance of code-mixing utterances. By examining the recognition results of Canton-English code-mixing speech, where Canton is the matrix ...

There are at least two languages (American Sign Language [ASL], English) and three modalities (sign, speech, print) in most deaf individuals' lives. Mixing of ASL and English in utterances of deaf adults has been described in various ways (pidgins, diglossia, language contact, bilingualism), but children's mixing usually is treated as the 'fault' of poor input language. Alternatively, how might...

This paper describes the design and compilation of the CUMIX Cantonese-English code-mixing speech corpus. Code-mixing is a common phenomenon in many bilingual societies and it usually involves at least two different languages within one utterance. In Hong Kong, people usually mix English words and phrases with Cantonese in their daily conversation. Although there are many monolingual corpora of...

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

Code-mixing is a prevalent phenomenon in modern day communication. Though several systems enjoy success in identifying a single language, identifying languages of words in code-mixed texts is a herculean task, more so in a social media context. This paper explores the English-Bengali code-mixing phenomenon and presents algorithms capable of identifying the language of every word to a reasonable...

Code-mixing is a common phenomenon in bilingual societies. It refers to the intra-sentential switching of two different languages in a spoken utterance. This paper presents the first study on automatic recognition of Cantonese-English code-mixing speech, which is common in Hong Kong. This study starts with the design and compilation of code-mixing speech and text corpora. The problems of acoust...