An on-line Spanish-Spanish Sign Language (LSE) translation system is presented in which Spanish speech content is translated into LSE to provide Spanish deaf people access to speech information. It is cloud-based, built over a speech recognition module, a transfer-based machine translation module and a Sign Language synthesis module that employs an avatar to present the signed content.

This article surveys research in Spanish phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a formal linguistic framework based on ranked and violable constraints. Theoretical insights from OT enrich our understanding of Spanish phonology, and Spanish data also figure prominently in the latest theoretical developments within OT. The article concludes with areas for ongoing research and a bibl...

In the absence of a Spanish prosody assessment procedure, an English one (Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems Children: PEPS-C) has been adapted for use with Iberian Spanish speakers. The paper describes the scope, principles and methods of the test and the modifications other than lexical translation that were required to produce a Spanish procedure. Findings from the first studies of data ...

This study analyzes the effect of initial status and growth in Spanish pseudoword reading in kindergarten and first grade on reading comprehension in Spanish at the end of first grade. One hundred and sixty-eight Spanish-speaking English learners who were learning to read in Spanish and English in the United States participated in the study. Results of hierarchical linear modeling indicate that...

the growing importance of the environmental and social policies in the spanish savings banksand the large differences between them, take us to delve into those factors that influence on the amounts spent on environment and welfare fund.in this line, we have analyzed all the spanish savings banks, over the period 2004-2008 and using the methodology of panel data, the effect that the composition ...

the growing importance of the environmental and social policies in the spanish savings banksand the large differences between them, take us to delve into those factors that influence on the amounts spent on environment and welfare fund.in this line, we have analyzed all the spanish savings banks, over the period 2004-2008 and using the methodology of panel data, the effect that the composition ...

certain potato cultivars such as native potato species (nps) from the andes are known to have resistances to different pests and diseases. some accessions are also interesting from a nutritional and culinary perspective. a collection of 35 nps and 11 old spanish accessions were analysed for streptomyces scabies, rhizoctonia solani and globodera rostochiensis, as well as dry matter, reducing sug...

The Spanish Flu is a term which denotes an influenza pandemic which emerged in 1918. This disease has numerous synonyms: the Spanish Flu, La Grippe espagnole, the Spanish Influenza and it is also possible to encounter throughout the world such names as the Spanish Lady or the Purple Death. The latter name resulted from the specific skin colour in the most severe cases of the diseased, who by th...

this study was conducted to determine the concentrations of metals (zn, cu, pb, cd and hg) in two commercial fish species of the persian gulf (coast of bushehr province in iran), as well as in the sea waters. the concentrations of metals were determined by using differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (dpasv). two selected species were narrow-barred spanish mackerel and tiger tooth croa...

In the absence of a Spanish prosody assessment procedure, an English one (Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems Children: PEPS-C) has been adapted for use with Iberian Spanish speakers. The paper describes the scope, principles and methods of the test and the modifications other than lexical translation that were required to produce a Spanish procedure. Findings from the first studies of data ...