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Aspects of English Sentence Stress
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A Study of the Use of English Sentence Stress for the Comprehension of Meaning by Adult Second Language Learners (Psycholinguistics, Arabic, Spanish, Acquisition)
Research interest in the prosody of English has increased in recent years and has resulted in detailed descriptions of some of the prosodic features of the language. There is also now evidence that the prosodic features are vital to communication. One of these features, linguistic stress, is …
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ENGLISH READING ABILITY IN YOUNG DEAF SIGNERS AN INVESTIGATION OF SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
… of the robust correlation between ASL and English reading ability in 54 deaf students aged 7;3 to 19;0. Skilled and unskilled signers were assessed on four English sentence structures (actives, passives, pronouns, reflexive pronouns) using a four-alternative forced choice …
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Back-Channel Behavior in Thai and American Casual Telephone Conversations
… likely to show agreement whereas in American English sentence completions were related to the function of understanding.
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Using Two-Level Grammars to Describe the Syntax of English.
… 2LGs can also be used to describe the syntax of English sentences, as well as to perform context checks to ensure that an English sentence is grammatical. Briefly stated, the metarules of a 2 LG may be used to generate an English sentence, much in the same way as a context-free grammar …
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Generating Paraphrases with Greater Variation Using Syntactic Phrases
Given a sentence, a paraphrase generation system produces a sentence that says the same thing but usually in a different way. The paraphrase generation problem can be formulated in the machine translation paradigm; instead of translation of English to a foreign language, the system translates an …
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Natural language search of structured documents
… being trained to identify features, of written English sentence describing (in natural language) part of an XML document, that help identify the sections of said document which were discussed. In particular, this thesis will revolve around the problem of searching through XML documents, each of …
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Dependency reordering features for Japanese-English phrase-based translation
Translating Japanese into English is very challenging because of the vast difference in word order between the two languages. For example, the main verb is always at the very end of a Japanese sentence, whereas it comes near the beginning of an English sentence. In this thesis, we develop a …
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Semantic analysis for system level design automation
… Also, the work deals with the subset of the English language used to describe digital systems, and the concepts within this domain have been classified into a type hierarchy. Finally, a set of relations has been defined to represent the interrelationships between the concepts of the …
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
… that speakers intended. For example, in English sentence “John knew that Peter likes himself”, the antecedent for ‘himself’ must be Peter. In the Mandarin equivalent, the antecedent of the reflexive could be either Peter or John. Thus, there is more ambiguity about the antecedents of …