background: since most clinical treatments of persian children’s language impairments are based on either the therapist, clinicians’ experiences (mostly), or english language norms (sometimes), comparing two minor indices of speech quality, namely “mean length of utterance” (mlu) and “mean length of five phrasal utterances” (mlfpu) between different age groups of children, would be unequivocall...

This paper presents Thai syntactic resource: Thai CG treebank, a categorial approach of language resources. Since there are very few Thai syntactic resources, we designed to create treebank based on CG formalism. Thai corpus was parsed with existing CG syntactic dictionary and LALR parser. The correct parsed trees were collected as preliminary CG treebank. It consists of 50,346 trees from 27,23...

Three male American English talkers spoke words that differed in lexical stress, and sentences that differed in phrasal stress, while video and movements of the face were recorded. In a production study, stressed vs. unstressed syllables from these utterances were compared along many measures of facial movement, which were generally larger and faster. In a visual perception study, 16 perceivers...

In a study of optical cues to the visual perception of stress, three American English talkers spoke words that differed in lexical stress and sentences that differed in phrasal stress, while video and movements of the face were recorded. In a production analysis, stressed vs. unstressed syllables from these utterances were compared along many measures of facial movement, which were generally la...

In this study, the scaling of utterance-initial f0 values and H initial peaks are examined in several Romance languages as a function of phrasal length, measured in number of pitch accents (1 to 3 pitch accents) and in number of syllables (3 to 15). The motivation for this study stems from contradictory claims in the literature regarding whether the height of the initial f0 values and peaks is ...