This study aims to investigate the apology speech act strategy employed by Japanese language learners at intermediate level and pragmatic transfer from L1 L2 that occurs. The data for this were gathered using Discourse Completion Test (DCT), which examined four situations focusing on relationships with interlocutors. subjects of 53 learners. collected then classified into eight strategies or se...

This paper describes a new approach and a system SCREEN’ for fault-tolerant speech parsing. Speech parsing describes the syntactic and semantic analysis of spontaneous spoken language. The general approach is based on incremental immediate flat analysis, learning of syntactic and semantic speech parsing, parallel integration of current hypotheses, and the consideration of various forms of speec...

The Chinese language is a typical tone language in which a syllable possesses several tone types and thus can represent different morphemes. While these tone types have rather clear manifestations in the fundamental frequency contour in isolated syllables, they vary considerably in connected speech due to the influences of such factors as tones of adjacent syllables, syntactic and pragmatic inf...

Discourse markers have been widely studied in various discourses such as political discourse, legal, media and even daily conversation. However, there is still a lack of discourse research humor studies. This study was projected to identify the linguistic aspects genre utterances stand-up comedy performed by Trevor Noah one most influential comedians. In addition, those aspect markers. The data...

Non-standard spellings in text messages often convey extra pragmatic information not found in the standard word form. However, text message normalization systems that transform non-standard text message spellings to standard form tend to ignore this information. To address this problem, this paper examines the types of extra pragmatic information that are conveyed by non-standard word forms. Em...

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the communication skills of children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), considering clinical and family perspective. Methods: from point view parents therapists, language ten ASD was analyzed. All underwent speech therapy at outpatient clinic a Speech Therapy School. Two protocols were used for data collection. Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC), wh...

In this talk we will give an overview of the different kinds of communication disorders. We will concentrate on communication disorders related to language and speech (i.e., not look at disorders like blindness or deafness). Speech and language disorders can range from simple sound substitution to the inability to understand or use language. Thus, a disorder may affect one or several linguistic...

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...