Verb classes which integrate a wide range of linguistic properties (Levin, 1993) have proved useful for natural language processing (NLP) applications. However, the real-world use of these classes has been limited because for most languages, no resources similar to VerbNet (KipperSchuler, 2005) are available. We apply a verb clustering approach developed for English to French – a language for w...

abstract the present study attempted to investigate the relationship between english language teacher perfectionism, teacher burnout, and teacher efficacy. for the purpose of the study, 114 teachers in tabadkan district, mashhad, were chosen. eighty-three of the participants were female and thirty-one were male with different majors in english language. three questionnaires, namely the scale on...

Nowadays, English is the leading foreign language enjoying a prestigious position in many countries, including Iran. In recent years, English is more and more popular in the world and the importance of learning English cannot be overstated in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. In this regard, studying the status of language of the educated class of the society such as teachers...

A text-to-speech system can effectively imitate distinctive speaking styles when a few critical prosodic features are modeled and controlled. This paper demonstrates the methodology with a number of examples, including the ornamental notes and the amplitude profile that define the singing style of Dinah Shore, the phrase curve that sets off the dramatic speaking style of Martin Luther King Jr, ...

language is a system of verbal elements that makes communication of meaningspossible in the manners the users intend by employing certain linguistic deviceswhich are partly language-specific. once communicating cross-linguistically, thereis always a risk of negative transfer of techniques or processes from the firstlanguage (l1) to the foreign language (l2). the current study investigates the“e...

This paper describes the development of HMM based speech synthesizer for Urdu language using the HTStoolkit. It describes the modifications needed to original HTS-Demo-scripts to port them, for Urdu language, which are currently available for English, Japanese and Portuguese. That includes the generation of the fullcontext style labels and the creation of the Question file for Urdu phone set. F...

This paper presents a novel and effective approach to synthesize English handwriting in the user’s writing style. We select the most important features that depict the handwriting style, including character glyph, size, slant, and pressure, special connection style, letter spacing, and cursiveness. The features can be efficiently computed with the aid of our specially designed sample collecting...