Free speech is a familiar concept. It an established ideal of liberalism and democratic politics, the subject political debate conflict across diverse historical cultural contexts. has not primarily been considered, however, as set lived, valued, contested practices, mediated by various linguistic, ethical, material forms. While anthropology traditionally occupied itself with free speech, it ex...

BACKGROUND The study objective was to identify commonalities amongst family medicine physicians who endorse annual adolescent visits. METHODS A nationally weighted representative on-line survey was used to explore pediatrician (N = 204) and family medicine physicians (N = 221) beliefs and behaviors surrounding adolescent wellness. Our primary outcome was endorsement that adolescents should re...

The modern telecommunications field is concerned with freedom and, in this context, hands-free systems offer subscribers the possibility of talking more naturally, without using a handset. This new type of use leads to new problems which were negligible in traditional telephony, namely the superposition of noise and echo on the speech signal. To solve these problems and provide a quality that i...

Recently, the use of syntax has very effectively improved machine translation (MT) quality in many text translation tasks. However, using syntax in speech translation poses additional challenges because of disfluencies and other spoken language phenomena, and of errors introduced by automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we investigate the effect of using syntax in a large-scale aud...

Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...